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Would have loved this back in my religious days, or in the brief period of time I was interested in criticizing religion. These days I'm not really interested at all in the Bible, but this is still a pretty cool idea. A little bit of an archaic choice to search the KJV though. Maybe it was chosen due to copyright issues.

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Isn't the KJV popular among evangelical sects as well? I remember seeing more of those as a kid than any modernized version.

That sounds like a much older congregation. If the worship has a guitar, it’s probably using ESV.

At least when I was growing up it was the New International Version. You were a fundie if you insisted on the KJV or the NKJV among people I knew.

The NIV changed their interpretive philosophy around the turn of the century to favor gender neutral language. Most churches switched to ESV at that point.

I didn't know that! Interesting.

Must be for Mormons. They only read the King James Version because otherwise the Book of Mormon would sound super weird seeing as how it’s the worlds most popular Bible fanfic. Source: technically a Mormon.

Not really. It's true that KJV is the default for English speakers, but less than half of the church's members are native English speakers. Even among those that speak English, many study the NIV and ESV, for example. It's not even that uncommon to hear non-KJV quotes in GenCon for that matter.

Hey today I learned, thanks! I catch maybe five minutes of General Conference, my wife’s more likely to watch it than I am. I was also very confused about what a tabletop gaming convention founded by Gary Gygax (of Dungeons and Dragons fame) had to do with Mormons at first hahah.

Well, I guess the Bible is also its own 'fanfic', as not every part was written at the same time and some later parts clearly reference earlier parts.

Fanfic would imply that the work is non-canon, wouldn't it? The bible represents some of the earliest arguments about what is canon.

Well, as you suggest, opinions on what is canon differ.

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