If you thought a KJV for every English school was bad...

[Thinking Aloud]

Both kids brought one of these home this afternoon. And it doesn't even have the really gory bits in.

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[klr]

It looks like it will make a good industrial-strength table mat for the casserole dish.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

If you put it on a piano stool and sat on it I bet you could reach that top keyboard.

[Faithfree]

I find the New Testament makes a good cutting board.

[Faithfree]

Double post

[klr]

Double post

A bit like the gospels. They weren't sure which version was you-know-what, so they put four of them in.

[Faithfree]

Double post

A bit like the gospels. They weren't sure which version was you-know-what, so they put four of them in.

With four mutually exclusive versions of the truth you can't go wrong.

[Svartalf]

Double post

A bit like the gospels. They weren't sure which version was you-know-what, so they put four of them in.

Given that all four are works of fiction, with Mark being more rumormongering and maybe less outright fiction than the rest, I really wonder how they had trouble finding the 'authentic' version...

[Svartalf]

BTW, this book proves that the Queerntakes its role as head of CoE seriously... will it officiate the jubilee celebration mass personally?

[Tero]

Absolutely. The Queen needs a new testicle.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

Both kids brought one of these home this afternoon. And it doesn't even have the really gory bits in.

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What the...

Who exactly gave these to them? Was it the school themselves, or some god-nut visiting the school to do a 'guest' assembly or something?

[Svartalf]

Both kids brought one of these home this afternoon. And it doesn't even have the really gory bits in.

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By 'gory bits', do you mean the OT, or do you mean this is a bowdlerized version of NT?

[tattuchu]

Interesting in that it's only the New Testament. Bibles over here are never separated as such. At least I don't think they are. It's been a long time since I've held one in my hands.
Also interesting that it's covered in a Union Jack. Christ, don't give the Jesusfags here any ideas. We'll be seeing stars and stripes bound copies in the States soon

[Svartalf]

Well, back when I was in the university, we had occasional visits by the Gedeons, but they distributed New Testaments (with the psalms and possibly the Proverbs), not full bibles.

I later bought a real cheap bible (in French) from evangelics... and discovered that even at the price, I'd been conned, I HATE the proddie canon with a passion, and I discovered that the best known and most common French translation of the protestant bible is shitty in the extreme (I do mean JW class shitty translation)... I once compared the text with the version French Jews use, and could hardly believe that it was the same base text.

[rachelbean]

Interesting in that it's only the New Testament. Bibles over here are never separated as such. At least I don't think they are. It's been a long time since I've held one in my hands.

Yeah, they are all the time. It's quite normal for evangelicals to give out paperback new testaments (they are super cheap in bulk).