I noticed something at my house one day, we had several different bibles on one shelf in the den along with several other pieces of religious literature. I wondered why we had so many bibles, so I took them down and started to thumb through them The Roman Catholic Bible, The American Revised Standard, and the King James Bible. It suddenly dawned on me, is the Bible a form of media unto itself? I started to read the language, and although it was all written in English, it conveyed very different feelings from the same chapters. The basic Catholic rhetoric meant to be minimalist but with a sense of mystery. Than there’s the modern American translation that breaks things down into plain and understandable terms and sets things in a typical “American” mindset. Then there’s the poetic and flowery King James version which is so beautifully written but riddled with political agendas of the monarchy. I began to realize that a sacred text had been altered, and changed to convey the message of various individuals throughout history. It kind of makes me wonder what it would be like to read it in its original language.
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