400th anniversary of the King James Bible

[0 kids n not countin]

http://www.pinoyhalo.com/2011/11/17/king-james-bible-400th-anniversary-of-the-1611-authorized-king-james-version-of-the-bible/

 

Are the fundies celebrating??

[gustava]

Duh.......They're thanking God that King James wrote it.

[xDreamerx]

The Queen went to a special celebration for it. Not sure about fundies, I would imagine so though likely for incredibly misinformed reasons.

Edited to add link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rsary.html

[browngrl]

well I'm in if the celebration includes cake :lol:

[thoughtful]

well I'm in if the celebration includes cake :lol:

Here ya go:

[Jeff]

What a lot of fundies don't seem to grasp is that the "authorized" in "Authorized Version" is short for "...by the Church of England for use in public worship"; it's essentially the traditional lectionary Bible of the Anglican Communion, and held pride of place for centuries. I don't see many of the people who think it should still be used joining the Episcopal Church if they like the Anglican leaders telling them what Bible is fit to read. Of course, we now have other authorized versions that see much more use, though I don't know of any list of Anglican-approved bibles that does NOT include the King James translation.

[teddybear]

And they also don't know what to say when you point out the good king was also possibly a good queen as well. LOL

[jesusfreak]

It's an eight month long celebration!

The amount of time it took to translate.