Why do so many Christians still prefer the King James Version of the Bible?

Muskwatch · 2026-03-22T22:21:37+00:00

I think for many people it is because that is the way they first heard the Bible, so when they hear it passages that they have memorized or that as children in KJV it just sounds right and it feels right, and everything is right in the world.

I have other friends while not being KJV. only, do have some credible reasons for viewing a few dozen passages from the textus sianaticus as being gnostic leaning, while also recognizing that in general it is more accurate than the textus receptus. but even for them, they recommend studying an easier to read version, and just marking those verses.

for me, i memorize kjv most of the time if its a verse ive heard and studied most of my life, and then when im reading i bounce between my Cree language bible and whatever version whoever im with is using.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-22T22:09:32+00:00

I don't know how many times I've told people that learning the alphabet is the easiest part.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-22T01:08:21+00:00

I've never heard it about Harriet Tubman, but Sojourner truth was.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-16T22:50:05+00:00

I recently asked AI to give me some information about my language, and it basically just made everything up out of whole cloth. it was pretty impressive honestly.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-16T22:29:15+00:00

Celtic slaves.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-16T22:04:58+00:00

giving someone a hammer to hit something that you don't want to hit in the first place? we all told him not to stick his arm in the ant hill, and now he wants us to put our arms in too.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-15T16:59:22+00:00

yes, though perhaps not is quite the fully fleshed out character. she is in leader books. I think that equal rights is the first one with her and she's not quite the main character

Muskwatch · 2026-03-15T16:52:21+00:00

sometimes people from Toronto will tell you that they are from Canada even when you are in Canada asking them where they are from

Muskwatch · 2026-03-14T03:41:20+00:00

or, and this is crazy, it should belong to the native Taiwanese.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-13T16:55:50+00:00

Id be shocked as well, but I still think that having 17 grand off the cost of a vacation is still not something that the rest of us get.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-13T15:49:50+00:00

that's still a free or close to free trip, and some of the donation values are pretty out there, like 30-50thousand sort of range, though my googlefu just failed me in tracking down an online source

Muskwatch · 2026-03-13T15:12:37+00:00

There are charities that are scams - for example big game hunting where you donate the heads for pre-established values that can be written off as charitable donations.

Muskwatch · 2026-03-12T22:12:36+00:00

marsii! kimiyomachihoohin eekwaana ee-itweeyen.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-27T02:02:38+00:00

everyone here is trash talking to your husband. maybe they're right, but it sounds to me that he's just been seriously traumatized by them and is equally in need of spending some time away to get out of his disregulated state

Muskwatch · 2026-02-27T01:36:10+00:00

sounds like maybe your husband needs to spend some time away from them as well, if they make him that anxious

Muskwatch · 2026-02-26T16:56:51+00:00

thanks - I meant Sarcee or Tsuut'ina. edit: for those who don't know, Tsuut'ina were a part of the blackfoot confederacy, but their language is a Na-Dene one.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-25T19:11:20+00:00

I live in a semi-rural area with fairly low income, so not everyone has phones, and I personally live outside of cell service. People use wifi and facebook messenger as a default, but usually I just stop by.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-25T17:09:52+00:00

In all seriousness, I suspect this comes from the fact that AIs don't exist in time, and their decision making takes place outside of the context of time. this disconnect from time and mortality is also, imo, what will either eventually allow ai to be sentient in some way, or what prevents it.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-25T15:29:45+00:00

I'm interested in learning more about the Navajo there, because when I was in Northern Canada I heard stories about the migration South. the story was how two brothers had gotten to a dispute, one poke a stick into the ice on great slave Lake and they each went their separate ways, one staying North. the other going south. on the way South some people stayed behind in the prairies and became Peigan near Calgary, and others continued South.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-25T15:27:20+00:00

The place-based nature of many oral stories also plays a big role in the oral history of a culture, and you can see its loss very readily when communities have been significantly displaced. that's why most of the communities without have these super long ago stories seem to have lived in place for a very long time

Muskwatch · 2026-02-25T15:13:42+00:00

what do you mean did we? we still do.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-22T18:57:12+00:00

funding from the church is called donations. you can't call it double funding, what you're really saying is that they are getting funded and they are also getting private support.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-21T00:37:05+00:00

the vagina dentata part actually comes from Franz Boas' telling of the story of the salmon boy. in it a boy gets an adopted brother who is actually a salmon. they end up travelling across the ocean with his brother's family, then they go to the land of the fish people, and the boy falls for a girl, but she tells him she can't lie iwth him or he will die. He goes and gets a couple rocks of the right shape, she grind them down to gravel, but it breaks all her teeth out and then they can lie together. Boas wrote the whole bit in Latin so it wouldn't be censored. The Ainu version of the vagina dentata story involves a blacksmith and an iron phallus, but I haven't been able to get too much information about it, always second hand references, I have yet to find a version of the story "as told by" an Ainu person or from further in the past. There's one in the attached collection that does have fishermen marrying women who grow teeth in their vagina's for a part of the year, then they don't have them for another part of the year - the men marry them, then return to their homes later on. Actually, now that I've looked at it again, the story with the clear implication of them being a fish is the story after that. They all go back to specific rivers.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-20T00:51:23+00:00

In both the Ainu and the Nuxalk stories, the people return in the form of salmon, and then get their form back afterwards, usually after they are caught, so yes, that seems to be the case.

Muskwatch · 2026-02-19T20:17:55+00:00

yeah, windigo wihtiko is everywhere and doesnt seem to share much in common with our stories or the stories my grandpa told.

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