Who Was King James?
Ralph Nielsen nielsen@uidaho.edu
Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:54:20 -0800 (PST) (00888839660, v03007804b11f897d5f2c@[129.101.112.26])
>DR. XIE
>
>Nielsen- you're a nut!
RALPH NIELSEN
Why?
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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.
>>
>>
>>