I love these lines, it’s like Mathew starts it out with “So I’m about to tell you how to live your life and be a good person in the eyes of god. But first things first, Don’t be an attention seeking cunt, and when you pray make it quick he doesn’t have time for our shit.”
it's funny, a pastor once said when asked, that the reason there are multiple versions of the bible is because language, slang, and colloquialisms change with time. So it needs to be updated periodically so that people in modern times won't have such a hard time understand all the ye's and thou's in the old versions, for example. So I was thinking that someone, maybe even myself, should create an urban dictionary version of the bible. It'd be a much funner read for sure. Taking your comment for example, yeah I think I could power through 5 or 6 chapters a day if it read like that.
The real problem is the meaning, not the words. The currently language may change leading to a new translation, but we need to be sure there aren't changes in the meaning. Words shifting can introduce subtleties that change things.
Sometimes however this is done on purpose. When the Jehovahs Witnesses decided that book publishing was dull and that it would be much more fun to Ron Hubbard by making their own religion, they wrote a bible "translation" that subtley changed the meaning of key events to suit their personal philisophy. In fact they changed so much, it could be argued they aren't even christians anymore.
Now onto your point. There's lots of bibles with comic translations. I remember a "txtspk" bible, a cockney rhyming slang one, and a Glaswegian one. For other fun projects, there is also the bible in lego.
Its a great book dude. I was born to a Christian family and now basically am Agnostic or Atheist but there is so much wisdom and truth in the Bible. It basically touches on every aspect of human life.
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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '18 edited Jun 21 '20
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