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I ran across this article from last year from one of these wacky KJV only churches...

King James Only Advocates Set to Burn Bibles October 31st
http://paulwilkinson.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/king-james-only-advocates-set-to-burn-bibles-october-31st/

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CANTON, N.C. (October 13, 2009)—The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence.

Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible.

“We will also be burning Satan’s popular books written by heretics like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham, Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa, The Pope, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning (and) William Young.

During the book burning, according to the Web site, barbecued chicken, fried chicken and “all the sides” will be served.

I can only imagine what the chicken must have tasted like?

That's hysterical.

I've been trying to explain the realities of medieval literacy, the invention of the printing press and lingua franca to the YOPIOS crowd for years.

The TRUTH is that prior to about the 15th century the ONLY written languages in Christendom that were developed enough for the Bible were Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Hebrew was somewhat shunned, but ALL literate Christians could read Greek or Latin and usually both. So, any argument regarding the translation of the Bible is moot, it's no different from the demands a decade or so ago that American schools offer Ebonics.

Another stark reality is that before the printing press, the cost of a Bible was far more than an average person could earn in a LIFETIME because all books had to be inscribed by hand and this was a very lengthy process. Nearly all books were owned by large churches and cathedrals and universities. This is why you hear stories of Bibles being locked up, it had NOTHING to do with keeping the contents secret and EVERYTHING to do with keeping a valued treasure from being stolen. Even when Gutenberg first printed his Bible the cost was far greater than the average person could afford (of the Bibles printed by Gutenberg, only one is known to have been privately owned by an individual); however, as with ALL technology, the cost eventually came down.

That brings us to literacy. The medieval Christians did learn mathematics, because that was important; however, as they couldn't afford books and there weren't any to read anyway. As books became less expensive, literacy rapidly became more the norm.

It is like computers, thirty-five years ago the earliest personal computers came on the market but they cost more than cars, few people could afford them and nobody knew how to use them. For well over a decade people who used computers were seen as strange (have a teenager watch "Revenge of the Nerds" and see how they react to the idea of people being made fun of for having computers), but as they became more affordable, they became the norm and EVERYONE learned how to use them. The SAME THING happened with books and literacy starting in the 16th century.

Now consider this, God KNEW that the Christian world would be almost totally illiterate for FIFTEEN CENTURIES after the Resurrection, why would He develop a means of Salvation that was conditioned on technology that wouldn't exist for FIFTEEN CENTURIES? It would be as if Christ had said, "There will be a new Covenant, but NONE of you will be part of it and neither will the next fifty generations."