Minting a martyr is stupid bc it creates more homework for others in the containment of what ensues.
We need lists introducing differences btwn translations of the bible into english asap. There'll be an influx of the bibliocurious vulnerable to exploitation.
What a huge mess.
We need lists introducing differences btwn translations of the bible into english asap. There'll be an influx of the bibliocurious vulnerable to exploitation.
What a huge mess.
If more youth will now explore christianity, we need guidance directing them to the most scholarly modern translations by faculty of top theological seminaries.
You want them on a scholarly path, not falling into the clutches of charismatic pentecostal megachurches, nar, or wcn.
You want them on a scholarly path, not falling into the clutches of charismatic pentecostal megachurches, nar, or wcn.
If you thought misinterpretations of bibles were bad back when people read books critically all their lives, now you will see what happens when young people with no reading comprehension skills to speak of wrestle with milllennia-old blueprints translated imperfectly. Good job.
Alternatively, the bible will prove to be such a slog to kids whose attention spans are reportedly the worst in history, and nothing will happen. Also undoubtedly, they will now be using Chatgpt to digest whichever bible for them, which theology professors should really review.
This comes at a very bad time, when illiteracy (let's call this.. the inability to read an adult novel cover to cover and understand it fully and critically) in college-aged youths is so high that they're in a new dark ages. Now you've pointed a whole slew of 'em to bibles. Fuck.
In the best case scenario, this ends up improving critical thinking and literacy in youths, and doesn't get them mired in a poorly managed church, but what are the chances of that happening. 😑😑😑😑😑📚🔖📔
You know what I actually hope happens? I hope kids who are having trouble choose to deal w/ their short attn spans like the digital natives they are by doing live readings piece by piece, on YT or Tiktok, so that if they make HUGE errors, people will come by to correct them.
I hope they use AI to turn the whole damned thing into an animated Miyazaki series, so they can see just how insane the content is without professional commentary.
And then, properly gobsmacked and confused, I hope they seek out the perspectives in an ideologically diverse array of professional commentary grounded firmly in the experience and theoretical underpinnings of contemporary scholarly theological pluralism.
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