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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

SMH. I can't stand when fantasy authors have such shoddy and inconsistent worldbuilding. Doesn't anyone proofread and run the manuscript by beta readers anymore?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Fun fact, the King James version (which wingnuts love to swear adherence to, maybe because of all the flowery language) was supposed to be the edit that fixed many of these worldbuilding gaffes. Obviously, it categorically failed to do so -- it even still includes both mildly contradictory accounts of the creation of the world in Genesis, which another poster here already mentioned.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It also includes contradictions on pretty much every part of the gospels in relation to each other but, to be fair, that's the case in all of them.

    Does beg the question of why they didn't align them when they had the chance. Some times the word of God is more malleable than others I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The original King James version included the apocrypha, which are found in the Catholic versions, but booksellers realized they could sell more copies if they left out the apocrypha. That's why most copies today don't have the apocrypha.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    No one reads the KJV except people seeking a doctrine in biblical studies. Everyone reads the revised KJV. The original version was plagiarized off an earlier English Bible instead of going directly to the source material. So even when it was first published it sounded like an old time way of speaking. Also it contained non-canon books that publishers would later take out to save on costs.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Well to be fair none of these people knew they were writing the Bible. You are some ancient scribe. The local king/warlord wants you to take some old story or scroll and revamp it to argue how great he is. Can't really refuse a guy with a throne of human bones especially since a. He is paying you b. This is your chance to write a fanfic, maybe it won't suck this time.

    Over and over the translations and copies were altered. As each group tried to prove that they had it right and everyone before them had it wrong.

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