First The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and now the Bible?
“…‘booty,’ a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the ‘spoils’ of war when the newest edition of the New American Bible, the English-language Catholic Bible, comes out on Ash Wednesday, March 9.”
—Read the rest of the revisions being made at USA Today. (via)
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You can justify this one because it’s a translation, especially since there are hundreds of translations, many of which use different words already. I love stories like this when they make people lose their minds though. I’ve had conversations with people who, for example, have argued that the King James version of the Bible is “the original,” as though Yahweh was talking to Moses in 16th-century British English. Same people, oddly enough, aren’t very well versed in what the book actually says.
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