XPost: alt.atheism, alt.religion.christian   
   From: ingilt@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On 31/12/2015 14:02, Ted&Alice wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   And how about this sermon?   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN-8G0HCD5U&feature=youtu.be   
      
   How can this fail to convert you?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)