XPost: alt.atheism, alt.religion.christian   
   From: ted@nd.alice   
      
   Christopher A. Lee wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 05:42:25 -0800, talishi    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > > On 12/31/2015 03:33 AM, Alex W. wrote:   
   > >> In this context, I will freely admit to owning and consulting a   
   > King >> James bible.  To my mind, it is an essential reference book   
   > in any >> well-sorted personal library and one of the three most   
   > important bodies >> of work that largely determined the shape of our   
   > language (together with >> the Oxford English Dictionary and   
   > Shakespeare).  Believer or atheist, if >> one does not know one's KJV   
   > then one does not know the history of our >> protean magical utterly   
   > beautiful tongue!   
   > >   
   > > The language of the King James version has become so associated   
   > > with piety that Joseph Smith Jr. once wrote an entire work of   
   > > fiction to sound like it.  An example:   
   > >   
   > > 2 Nephi 3:   
   > >   
   > > [18] And the Lord said unto me also: I will raise up unto the fruit   
   > > of thy loins; and I will make for him a spokesman. And I, behold, I   
   > > will give unto him that he shall write the writing of the fruit of   
   > > thy loins, unto the fruit of thy loins; and the spokesman of thy   
   > > loins shall declare it.   
   > >   
   > > [19] And the words which he shall write shall be the words which   
   > > are expedient in my wisdom should go forth unto the fruit of thy   
   > > loins. And it shall be as if the fruit of thy loins had cried unto   
   > > them from the dust; for I know their faith.   
   >   
   > Do I really need to say where this comes from?   
   >   
   > And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin.   
   > Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the   
   > number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be   
   > three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting   
   > that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number   
   > three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy   
   > Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My   
   > sight, shall snuff it.   
      
   Then you've evidently witnessed how God dealt with the foul, cruel   
   Rabbit of Caerbannog, and yet, you're still an unbeliever?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)