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Would have loved this back in my religious days, or in the brief period of time I was interested in criticizing religion. These days I'm not really interested a
by yosito 4y ago
Would have loved this back in my religious days, or in the brief period of time I was interested in criticizing religion. These days I'm not really interested at all in the Bible, but this is still a pretty cool idea. A little bit of an archaic choice to search the KJV though. Maybe it was chosen due to copyright issues.
- wincy 4y agoMust be for Mormons. They only read the King James Version because otherwise the Book of Mormon would sound super weird seeing as how it’s the worlds most popular Bible fanfic. Source: technically a Mormon.
- dbrueck 4y agoNot really. It's true that KJV is the default for English speakers, but less than half of the church's members are native English speakers. Even among those that speak English, many study the NIV and ESV, for example. It's not even that uncommon to hear non-KJV quotes in GenCon for that matter.
- wincy 4y agoHey today I learned, thanks! I catch maybe five minutes of General Conference, my wife’s more likely to watch it than I am. I was also very confused about what a tabletop gaming convention founded by Gary Gygax (of Dungeons and Dragons fame) had to do with Mormons at first hahah.
- eru 4y agoWell, I guess the Bible is also its own 'fanfic', as not every part was written at the same time and some later parts clearly reference earlier parts.
- the_only_law 4y agoIsn't the KJV popular among evangelical sects as well? I remember seeing more of those as a kid than any modernized version.
- overthemoon 4y agoAt least when I was growing up it was the New International Version. You were a fundie if you insisted on the KJV or the NKJV among people I knew.
- hnal943 4y agoThe NIV changed their interpretive philosophy around the turn of the century to favor gender neutral language. Most churches switched to ESV at that point.
- overthemoon 4y agoI didn't know that! Interesting.
- Glide 4y agoThat sounds like a much older congregation. If the worship has a guitar, it’s probably using ESV.