Show HN: The King James Bible deserved a better website

by L23234 • 4 months ago

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momentary• 4 months ago

You might want to consider making this site accessible. I know it's the trend for AI slop to not be readable but it sure seems like a damn shame to make a website dedicated to the most read book of all time that no one can read.

stupidgeek314• 4 months ago

The KJB needs a better translation.

suburban_strike• 4 months ago

Just use Sefaria for the Old Testament. Jews put a few thousand years of effort into translation and interpretation. The whole thing is even hosted on GitHub. They would know more than anyone else what they meant when they wrote it.

https://github.com/sefaria

I don't know where Christians went wrong (the Reformation? Scofield?) but their schizophrenic insistence on reconciling selective adherence to the Old Testament with only the most-pacifist teachings of Jesus in the New makes the whole religion a suicide cult. Despite him being rabidly antisemitic we don't talk about that, and these days his namesake cult routinely sacrifices its children in service of Israel's militaristic endeavors. We violate literally every clause in our covenant with God, tattooing, poisoning, mutilating, defiling, and killing ourselves, and calling ourselves virtuous as we act like animals while somehow also failing at our basic primal charter of being fruitful and multiplying.

What Christ needs is not better translation, but a better breed of disciple. Our orders were clear. We have convinced ourselves that surrender is virtue. This mindset will never thrive; it invites enslavement.

nonameiguess• 4 months ago

My browser shows a json message embedded in 9 layers of <div> tags that says "error: Only HTML requests are supported here"

jontsai• 4 months ago

Oh, hi, fellow Bible geek!

ryker2000• 3 months ago

the original 1611 King James Bible apparently included the Apocrypha.

benjaminhays• 3 months ago

It isn't explicitly designed for Christian use (it's a Jewish non-profit), but I've always loved the fully-FOSS interface for reading biblical material on Sefaria.

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