Comments on: Book burning in N. Carolina — bring one o’ them new-fangled Bibles http://www.computernewbie.info/wheatdogg/2009/10/23/book-burning-in-n-carolina-bring-one-o-them-new-fangled-bibles/ Ramblings by a former physics teacher teaching EFL in Jishou, China Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Licht http://www.computernewbie.info/wheatdogg/2009/10/23/book-burning-in-n-carolina-bring-one-o-them-new-fangled-bibles/#comment-49034 Mike Licht Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:37:18 +0000 http://www.computernewbie.info/wheatdogg/?p=1236#comment-49034 "The Smalll Church with the Big Carbon Footprint." See: http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/faith-on-fire/ “The Smalll Church with the Big Carbon Footprint.”

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http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/faith-on-fire/

]]> By: eljefe http://www.computernewbie.info/wheatdogg/2009/10/23/book-burning-in-n-carolina-bring-one-o-them-new-fangled-bibles/#comment-49021 eljefe Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:13:52 +0000 http://www.computernewbie.info/wheatdogg/?p=1236#comment-49021 God has since moved onto mastering LOLcat. Grizzard may seem like an aberration, but there are plenty of others like him spread across the Bible Belt. Somehow the KJV has become as inerrant as the Pope, if not more so. The Quakers warned against that sort of idolatry way back in the late 1600s, with the founder, George Fox, pointing out that paying a few shillings for a book contradicted the entire "Holy Book" meme. (I paraphrase.) Of course, not many people listened then to Fox's admonishment, and I doubt Pastor Grizzard would, either. The Quakers (and there are some in North Carolina) are probably on his list of heretics, right there with the Mormons, the Catholics and the Presbyterians. What's weird is that the KJV was written specifically for the Church of England, yet modern pentecostals/fundamentalists have embraced the translation as their own. God has since moved onto mastering LOLcat.

Grizzard may seem like an aberration, but there are plenty of others like him spread across the Bible Belt. Somehow the KJV has become as inerrant as the Pope, if not more so. The Quakers warned against that sort of idolatry way back in the late 1600s, with the founder, George Fox, pointing out that paying a few shillings for a book contradicted the entire “Holy Book” meme. (I paraphrase.) Of course, not many people listened then to Fox’s admonishment, and I doubt Pastor Grizzard would, either. The Quakers (and there are some in North Carolina) are probably on his list of heretics, right there with the Mormons, the Catholics and the Presbyterians.

What’s weird is that the KJV was written specifically for the Church of England, yet modern pentecostals/fundamentalists have embraced the translation as their own.

]]> By: Cheryl http://www.computernewbie.info/wheatdogg/2009/10/23/book-burning-in-n-carolina-bring-one-o-them-new-fangled-bibles/#comment-49019 Cheryl Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:12:50 +0000 http://www.computernewbie.info/wheatdogg/?p=1236#comment-49019 "My God is capable of doing whatever he chooses to do, but it seems that many so called "scholars" today has a god that doesn't know any language other than Greek, Hebrew, and Latin." I can has a god? Sorry, couldn't resist. Maybe Grizzard's English-speaking God can divinely inspire him with how to correctly conjugate "to have". Then again, his God apparently only spoke English until 1611 and then lost that ability. “My God is capable of doing whatever he chooses to do, but it seems that many so called “scholars” today has a god that doesn’t know any language other than Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.”

I can has a god?

Sorry, couldn’t resist. Maybe Grizzard’s English-speaking God can divinely inspire him with how to correctly conjugate “to have”. Then again, his God apparently only spoke English until 1611 and then lost that ability.

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