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Re: New Stories from the New Testament
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Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:52:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> In which case, should
> Christians be like Moslems and declare that only an original Bible, not
> a translation, is valid? Which language then?
Obviously the only valid Bible is in the original KJV. :)
Okay, I know, only Christians got that joke.
Anyway, on to the main topic of the debate here. Three things.
1. The tone is definitely mocking, self-admittedly so.*
2. I'm a pretty hard-core Christian.
3. I enjoy Brendan's work quite a bit. Perhaps I'm less easily offended
than I should be, but there you go.
*Quoting Brendan in the Spin article he reproduces on his site: "If there's
an unspoken intention to the site . . . it's to have those who believe in an
all-loving and merciful, family-values supporting God be confronted with the
barbaric, heinous, and grotesque stories from the divinely inspired book
their religion is based on.** Plus it's a cool Lego project and stuff."
**In that I am wholly in accord with Brendan. We (speaking to Christians
here) need to confront and try to understand the real God, not some
caricature based on half-remembered Sunday School lessons. I suspect that I
come to very different conclusions from that confrontation than Brendan
would, but I'd really rather not go further in debating the aspects of
religion in this forum. Debating the use of Lego to depict those aspects is
already off-topic enough for me for today.
Bruce
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| (...) Depends. I get the joke, but I'm not sure it's the joke you were intending. :) (I presume you're making fun of the highly suspect circumstances of the KJV's translation?) (...) And the strength of Christianity and Christians should be in the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, you can probably always find someone to find something offensive. (...) I haven't looked at these in too much detail, but what I see is someone combining two life passions. Is it wrong for people to look for ways to express things which (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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