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The 'King James Only' movement and atheism

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Benson Shays
, February 24th 2012 at 05:07 AM (997 Views)
A number of Christian apologists have blasted skeptics for sharing common ground with the wackiest of religious believers on a number issues. For example, many atheists maintain that the Bible teaches a literal six-day creation, or that Revelation is to be taken as a literal text. Whether believers or skeptics, the people who hold such views often understand the Bible in an absolutist sense, rarely considering its historical context or the author's purpose in writing.

I just finished James White's The King James Only Controversy and discovered another fundamentalist tendency of the skeptical crowd: like the King James defenders, skeptics often believe that the text of the Bible should have been perfectly preserved down through the centuries, and they often make the same arguments in support of this thesis. I supposed I've always been aware of this similarity, but never connected the dots. Let's explore it a little bit.
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  1. Griggsy's Avatar
    King James, hater of Indians, was a flambooyant homosexual: why he'd be most outstanding in a gay parade! As gay, fine but to want Indians dead marks him as mean-minded.
    No, the oral tradition changed matters as the discrepancies evidence that, and scribes further changed words. Of course,many probably accuse Bart Ehrmand and other substantial scholars, even Cristians, of being inspired by Satan! Why, psychologists find no demons as influencing us.
    We skeptics insist on that and that just one holy books shoud exist per Drange's argument,because any rational being would want others to come to him without all that cacaphony. Hick;s epistemic distance argument that He makes His existence ambiguous and so , by implication, that cacaphony exists.
    No, no rational being would do that. Indeed, one would make a better place for us in the first place per the problem of Heaven and wouldn't worry over any relationship! What is right for sentient beings is moral,not divine whims!