Happy 400th Anniversary, King James Bible
"[It] has been called the single most important publication in English-speaking history," says Ian Alexander of Sidney, a proselytizer for one of the wordiest celebrations of the 400th anniversary imaginable: a public reading of all 1,590 pages at Christ Church Cathedral Sept. 19 to 24. It's believed to be Canada's only such reading — and everyone in the community is invited to take part.
"We wanted to do something that would not only celebrate the historical richness of the KJV, but bring it alive for us today," he says.
"It not only formed the faith of millions of people, but gave the world hundreds of colourful phrases that are still in common use, and permanently shaped the rhythms and images of English speech and writing," Alexander says. And not "in a twinkling of an eye" — it took a committee of 47 scholars and clergy four years to "fight the good fight."
"Its cadences are still deeply ingrained in our psyches as a shared experience and common legacy of cultural reference," Alexander says.
Really? Two active threads about the bible? babble, you've changed.
Yes there was a time when they were mostly priests and royalty who could read and write. Dark period in between when they were mostly priests and monks who could write letters of communication between barbarian overlords, their oppressive laws etc. Were they keepers of the written word if only in the western world? Holy grail indeed.
But someone screwed up along the way and created a printing press. The end result is that today all us proletariats can read the Holy Bible, or perhaps Marx and Engels, McQuaig, Klein, Chomsky and rabble.
SPOILER ALERT!
As utterly tedious as the book is for the most part, with a few notable exceptions, it really gets totally whacked at the end, and the whole world ends. Imagine that! It's like they got in a whole new writing team, and they were all stoned on acid or something. Some really great imagry!
Other than that, I'd say it was kind of uneven, and I'm not just saying that because in a lot of parts it frankly makes me come across as a bit of an asshole. I mean I understand I'm kind of counter-intuitive on many levels, even for a fantasy, but my ego can get over it. Yeah, uneven describes it, almost like it was written by many different individuals and groups over a long period of time to suit diverging social needs depending on the era, then wrung through several different translation processes. Am I making sense here? Weird way to write a book, but I hear it's done well.
You need to hire better redactors next time.
More than you did in that book, bud - which, I suppose, isn't much of a revelation.
Oh, how divine, Unioinist.
You act like I had something even remotely to do with it. There's stuff in there so perverse that only a human could have come up with it.
I created a nice little Universe, and laid out some challenges along the way to make things interesting, but some humans ability to screw things up is mind boggling. However, there are nice people like the ones posting here that will make it all ok. (that's not a promise BTW, but an expression of hope and encouragement. Gotta be careful with promises)
What? And leave out all the best parts?
Matthew 1:1-17
Then again, think of all the royalty cheques JC could have saved.
Sad to see you haven't progressed in thinking since the Enlightenment, GOD.
Now how can one progress, if one is already deemed to be a perfect entity? ( an attribution bestowed by others, not me I might add )
Besides, I think it's a nice little universe. You should see some of the others.
Do people's threads get closed in other universes with accusations of being disrupted and threats of suspension, GOD?
There was once a universe with nothing but Free Dominion. The human brain became so atrified that technology never went beyond the Ford Falcon, and there was fatal global warming due to excessive flatulence. I was considering punishing them with a plague of locusts at on point, but then I figured why punish the innocent locusts?