Actually, I think you're being too hard on the KJV. The New Testament, was at least translated from the Textus Receptus, although, like all protestant translations, there is the problem of the Old Testament being translated from the Masorete, rather than the LXX--save the crucial passage of Isaiah, where 'virgin' corresponds to 'parthenos' in the LXX.
Other protestant translations have embrace the enthusiams for a hypothetical 'ur-text', and perpetrate such outrages as removing Christ's self-designation as 'the Son of God' in his discussion with the man born blind after his healing, replacing it with 'the Son of Man'--admittedly a name Our Lord used for Himself, but *not* at that moment, where the Church's Scriptures tell he explicitly claimed His Divine Sonship in the wake the sign the Fathers tell us was *the creation of eyes for the man*, and thus, with the raising of Lazarus, four days dead, the clearest proof of His Divinity offered by an action in His earthly minstry.
*Brother, the KJV was an ideological project. It falsified the words of Holy Writ and it contained about 1000 errors when it first came out.
Also, it was a project of a King and his Sec of State.
What the King did back in the day would be like George Bush ordering Condi Rice to write a new Bible.
Other than a few republicans, most folks would say, "T'Hell is up with George? He's gone right round the bend"
Precisely. Textus Receptus (TR) is a retro-translation into Greek of the New Nestament first completed by Erasmus in Holland in 1516, chock-full of errors and omissions (a rush job on top of a very limited number of sources).
His 1522 (3rd) edition now included the (in)famous fraud known as Comma Johanneum, although even Erasmus doubted its veracity. This fraud persisted through the 19th century and spread like the plague in all sorts of NT versions, both Catholic and Protestant.
TR was the very basis for Luther's Bible (why am I not surprised) by Tyndale's, and from him it was incorporated into the KJV, which also contained numerous errors of its own.