Who Was King James?
Ling Zhong Xie nith@execulink.com
Sun, 1 Mar 1998 20:31:21 -0500 (00888823881, 199803020133.UAA01556@snel.execulink.com)
DR. XIE
Nielsen- you're a nut!
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> From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen@uidaho.edu>
> To: Errancy <errancy@infidels.org>
> Subject: Who Was King James?
> Date: March 1, 1998 6:49 PM
>
>
> WHO WAS KING JAMES?
>
> Even though good modern translations of the Bible are available today,
many
> fundamentalists refuse to read any translation but the Authorised
Version,
> otherwise known as the King (or Saint) James Bible.
>
> The James to whom they refer is King James VI of Scotland, who became
King
> James I of England when Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603. He did not like
the
> Geneva Bible because it was too Protestant, so he had a committee of
> scholars make a new translation suitable for the Church of England.
>
> The King James, or Authorised, Version was completed in 1611. It sounded
> old-fashioned even in its own day, but it is one of the great works of
the
> English language. Even though it is not based on ancient accurate texts,
> many people believe it is infallible.
>
> Although King James was head of both the Church of England and the Church
> of Scotland, he was not personally religious. But neither did he permit
> freedom of religion. If you lived in Scotland you had to be a
Presbyterian;
> if you lived in England you had to be an Anglican.
>
> King James loved to go hunting, and enjoyed trampling in the warm blood
and
> guts of animals he had killed. And although he was the father of several
> children, he preferred to go to bed with young men.
>
> Today, almost four hundred years later, King James has become Saint
James,
> the patron saint of fundamentalists.
>
>
> Please feel free to copy and distribute the above.
>
> Feb. 27, 1998
>
> I found this unsent in my Out Box. So here you are.
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