Pope better not be using that protestant rag of a translation. Also it’s infamously the worst translated English language bible prioritizing poetic phrasing and political points of the eponymous King James VI/I over accuracy of translation and readability. Hell the point in the article is even worse given that the trump bible is the king james
The king James is only treated as the default in lots of America because of a weird culture war thing
Pope Leo uses the King James Version
Uh…no he doesn’t. I know the point the that Johnson doesn’t care about the Bible, only blowing Trump, but Catholics have a list of approved translations (linking here to the US Council of Catholic Bishops because Leo was a member before becoming Pope), and KJV isn’t on it. King James VI & I is the one who commissioned it, and was notably not Catholic. KJV is like…the English Protestant translation…
This is legitimately the first time I’ve heard the Catholics don’t accept the KJV. Was there ever a period where they did, or is it that the Catholics never got over the fact that an Anglican king commissioned the translation and have always rejected it?
Nope, Catholics used Latin at the time and it’s also just not a great English translation, also they don’t have exactly the same books. Though apparently in 2020 someone published a catholic variant of the kjv
I’ve never been able to find a good answer to that question. I know there some differences in what exactly gets included (see the deuterocanonical books/apocrypha), so I don’t think that it’s ever been accepted, but I can’t give a real source there.
That MFer said he was going to write a dissertation refuting the validity of ’For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in’ (Matthew 25:35).
The fucking gall of these people.
American Evangelicals have been tying themselves in knots trying to argue against those kinds of Bible passages. Their mental gymnastics are as impressive as they are stupid.
Fun fact, trump’s Bible is KJV… with some additional bonus content.
Done that way because KJV has no copy protection and can be reprinted without paying royalties.
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