XPost: alt.atheism, alt.religion.christian   
   From: talishi@example.net   
      
   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.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)