Comments on: Run, Fundie, Run!

By: Person who knows these things

Person who knows these things — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:08:55 +0000

LV is the “Living Version”
It’s the paraphrased version. Instead of translating from the original languages, Kenneth Taylor took the American Standard Version (1901) and made it into pre-teen English in 1971.
Personally, I prefer the NIV or LXX (Greek Old Testament), or the Vulgate.

By: Bart v.d. M.

Bart v.d. M. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:59:51 +0000

Must be those darn Catholics, they insist on translating God’s English words into Latin during ceremonies.

By: Taz

Taz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:12:33 +0000

LV would be the Latin Vulgate. Why they had to take a perfectly good English language book like the Bible and translate it into Latin is beyond me.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:47:18 +0000

LV = Las Vegas, the hotbed of sin? In that case I’m running right into the flames!

By: Bunkie

Bunkie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:53:52 +0000

LV = Louis Vuitton Bible
What ever THAT is supposed to be!

By: Bart v.d. M.

Bart v.d. M. — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:29:49 +0000

Steve, I think what he means is back in the days you weren’t allowed to sacrifice a bull unless you did so in front of the congregation tent.

By: OtherRob

OtherRob — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:04:53 +0000

As you say the animation moves pretty fast. I thought one of the things he was running from was NASA. Didn’t know what the others were, but I figured they were also some sort of scientific organization or concept.

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:04:15 +0000

Run to reason, Christian!

By: Another Steve

Another Steve — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:00:41 +0000

The first thing that caught my eye from Brother Mike’s funny (sic) web site:

“The Way Church Used to Be — And Ought to Be!”

So, my first thought was:

In Latin? With the priest’s back to the congregation?

In a Catholic church? Before the reformation movement of Martin Luther?

Or are we talking about further back into the mist of ignorance…You know: “The good old days”

I sometimes wonder just what would happen if we could somehow give the fundies exactly what they are hoping for. Put them into some sort of fish tank and seal the lid. Let them have their theocracy. What would it look like in 1 year? 5 years? 100 years? 1000 years?

One wrinkle I’d like to add to the fish tank experiment: If a person wants out, they can get out. This lets the people who develop the ability to reason with a way to escape.

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:35:52 +0000

I made the mistake of clicking through to Mike’s website. My speakers nearly blew up from the loud midi music pouring from the page. I suppose I could mute the speakers, but why would I want to go through all that trouble to read a silly Christian web page? I wonder if they know just how annoying it is to have music spontaneously explode from your speakers with no player on the page that you can turn it down with?

By: Sanity

Sanity — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:34:00 +0000

Notice how the little running man isn’t actually getting any closer…

By: Jeff Eyges

Jeff Eyges — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:54:11 +0000

Our little fearful fundie is, of course, running toward the King James Version: the official God-approved Bible, written in God’s native tongue: Early Modern English.

I’ve been made aware, over the past year or so, that some (many?) of them actually believe this. Apparently, it isn’t uncommon to hear, “If it was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!”

Perhaps this country has been the beneficiary of divine intervention, because I can’t understand how we’ve lasted this long.