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I wonder if part of the reason could be copyright. In the past if you thought that Beowulf, King Arthur, or Robin Hood should have ended different you were free
by harimau777 6y ago
I wonder if part of the reason could be copyright. In the past if you thought that Beowulf, King Arthur, or Robin Hood should have ended different you were free to publish a version with your preferred ending. Today, our shared cultural stories are owned by corporations who get to decide who gets to tell them.
- HenryKissinger 6y agoThe Bible and other holy books aren't copyrighted. Anyone is free to publish their preferred version of the Bible or the Quran. Yet disagreements over the meaning of these texts have been happening for millenia.
- initplus 6y agoI think the metaphor there is similar. The church did not historically take kindly to individuals publishing "their version" of holy texts without sanction of the church.
- Teever 6y agoI'm pretty sure that most attempts to revise religious texts in the manner you describe lead to schisms and death.
- Andrex 6y agoThe Bible doesn't self-classify as fiction.