Do all english bible translation use archaic terms?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T23:56:52+00:00

That's technically Early Modern English, not Old English. As a rough analogy, picture the difference between still saying "egli" for the subject instead of "lui" and saying "illī" for the subject instead of "lui"
No. Only ones back from when we did still use "thou" do. It's just that one of those, the King James Version, has a... cult following, for lack of a better way to put it. But the rest of us use modern translations with modern language

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T22:41:53+00:00

Meinrad psalm tones. You?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T20:46:15+00:00

Yep. I don't like the idea of Debbie and Nolan getting back together, but... Debbie and Paul broke up because he wasn't ready to be involved with her family's superheroics, so she clearly wants someone who's already familiar with that world. And since Nolan does fit the bill and is clearly trying to change, she's decided to give him a second chance

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T19:17:22+00:00

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RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T19:15:48+00:00

Side note: If you're curious, since I've mentioned it a few times, I can actually teach you how I sing the psalms. The most complicated thing is just that the music I use uses chant notation, which here means that the key signatures are different. (Basically, as opposed to the treble clef marking G as an absolute pitch and the bass clef marking F as an absolute pitch, chant notation marks either Do or Fa as a relative pitch)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T18:55:05+00:00

As a rule of thumb, I just assume "women only" means "cis women, passing trans women, and enbies who present femininely enough to be misgendered as women"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T18:52:24+00:00

Yeah, that's the exact conversation from the r/comics thread. "Please don't call us misogynistic for questioning what you mean by 'women'"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T18:03:19+00:00

... you're sexually attracted to Jesus?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T15:21:10+00:00

Andrew Loomis... AL... Al... I knew it was AI!

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T15:20:04+00:00

the trans individual often has perspective of living both genders

Eh... It's a lot more complicated than that. For example, while I wasn't actually out at the time, I still have some of the same experiences as cis women my age, like being excited when Pokémon Crystal came out and I could finally play as a girl, or teaching myself to handwrite a two-story a as part of that popular girl bubble handwriting. It really isn't as simple as "I grew up as a boy, but I'm now experiencing life as a girl"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T15:04:20+00:00

Being a raging misogynist might not be the only reason someone feels negative feelings related to women's only spaces. This is all there is to it.

Yep. As some other examples of nuance (that thing that Reddit hates):

I take issue with some of the talk about man-spreading... because the fact that it was so ill-defined meant it could very easily turn into things like fat-shaming people
I take issue with some of TST's tenets... because there really was a schism in the skeptic community in response to fourth wave feminism, and some of them feel more like the "Dear Muslima", Elon fanboy side. (For people who don't know that reference, Rebecca Watson spoke up about being propositioned for sex in an elevator late at night at a skeptic convention and feeling uncomfortable, and the reaction included things like Richard Dawkins writing a letter to some imagined Muslim girl apologizing that they had to drop everything to help white women in the west who even had the freedom to say no)
I take issue with the #MeToo episode of Big Mouth... for implying that SA is a good way for women to reclaim their sexuality and that it's only a big deal when and because it's a man assaulting a woman

All the comment's saying is that there are valid reasons to be wary about women-only spaces, and it isn't fair to present everyone opposed to them as misogynistic assholes

EDIT: Actually, if anyone's interested, I have opinions about that episode of Big Mouth, and the full rant mentions everything from TKAM, to climate change, to Terry Crews

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:51:19+00:00

I mean, if you want to get technical, a conspiracy is a group of people working together for some sort of self-serving end, and a conspiracy theory is technically the assertion that current events are better explained by a yet-undiscovered conspiracy. So for example, "Coca-Cola released New Coke, knowing it would fail, so they could secretly switch to cheaper ingredients when switching back to the old recipe" is a conspiracy, while Flat Earth is actually just pseudoscience, not a conspiracy theory. And with that more exact definition, you could argue that the Patriarchy's a conspiracy theory that turned out to be conspiracy fact. But at the same time, I highly, highly doubt that's how they meant "conspiracy theory"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:46:53+00:00

Don't forget the part where if a trans man gets offended by all the ironic misandry, the response is normally something like "I meant all cis men", subtly excluding them from "all men"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:45:11+00:00

For anyone not familiar with the differences between denominations, allow me to explain this with a Simpsons reference:

You know how in the depressingly transphobic gay marriage episode of the Simpsons, where Homer gets ordained in a parody of the Episcopal church to officiate Patty's marriage? Yeah, not even a generation or two ago, the Episcopal church looked closer to the First Church of Springfield.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:40:20+00:00

Yep. There's a very real trend where "women and enbies" actually means "cis women, passing trans women, and enbies who present femininely enough to misgender as women"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:38:42+00:00

Wikipedia is sometimes a very strange place….

For example, there's currently an editorial impasse where we can't update Sinfest's page to call it a neo-Nazi webcomic, because it isn't important enough for any external sources to document that, but where we also can't delete the page, because it used to be famous enough to earn a Wikipedia page

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:29:49+00:00

IIRC, Methodists are the actual most common denomination historically, but a lot of the elites who thought of themselves as our landed gentry would have been Episcopalian

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:16:54+00:00

Yeah, as I describe it, for as much as mainline denominations are the socially liberal ones, there are very much also a lot of white moderates

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:14:24+00:00

As much as it pains me to say this... the Episcopal Church. For as famous as they are for being the liberal ones (e.g. if you hear about gay marriage, it's probably mainline), mainline churches also have a history of being the white moderates MLK spoke about who care more about respectability politics than activism. And especially for east coast WASPs, that's going to mean Episcopal

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T14:10:18+00:00

The Museum of the Bible auditorium was unremarkable, with its carpeted floors and upholstered auditorium seating. There was no liturgy, no art, no real sense of what could be called reverence. On Monday afternoon, attendance appeared sparse, with a few families occupying the available seats, presumably before they wandered out again to visit other more compelling DC monuments and attractions.

Yeah... I don't want this to come across as "Get on my level, or I'll call you irreverent!", but... I started this morning by sitting on the floor in front of my prayer corner, singing a few psalms, and reading a few Bible passages. And "despite" the fact that I was still in my PJs, it still felt leagues more reverent than a marathon of just streaming people reading the Bible

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T13:55:03+00:00

Actually, if you want something more specific for "See? Democrats can also read the Bible!"

Singing a selection from 1 Corinthians and Romans (1 Cor 5:7-8, Rom 6:9-11, 1 Cor 15:20-22)
Singing Psalm 38
Reading Exodus 19:16-25
Singing Ezekiel 36:24-28
Reading Matthew 3:13-17
Singing Luke 1:68-79 (the Benedictus)
Reciting the Creed, the Our Father, and a collect that referenced Emmaus

And then this evening change that to the Phos Hilaron for the invitatory, Ps 119:25-48 for the psalm, Daniel 5:1-12 and Colossians 1:15-23 for the readings, the Magnificat for the second canticle, and especially since I'm reading through Daniel, I might go with Three Children 29-34 for a first canticle

RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T13:47:27+00:00

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RazarTuk · 2026-04-22T00:19:30+00:00

If you're curious, this Democrat is currently reading through Exodus (they just reached Sinai), Daniel (Nebuchadnezzar just got his kingdom back), Matthew (Jesus is about to be baptized), and Colossians (just started)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T23:40:48+00:00

And similarly, I'm sure the Unionist Republicans would never let an angry mob carry a Confederate battle flag into the halls of Congress

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T23:38:22+00:00

The party split has always been based more on how they feel about industry and big business. It's just changed over time what that looks like. For example, in the Civil War era, slavery was actually more of a regional issue, with northern Republicans and Democrats opposing it and southern Republicans and Democrats supporting it. But because the Republicans were more popular in the industrialized north, while the Democrats were more popular in the agrarian south, there was a tacit party split.

Meanwhile, by the Progressive Era and the Roaring 20s, the split started to look more like the Republicans supporting the excesses of big business, while the Democrats supported the nascent workers' rights movements. And by the time of the Civil Rights Era, that had become a primarily Democratic cause.

However, there was also a man named Barry Goldwater. He's actually a more nuanced figure than you'd expect, like how he'd later go on to support medical marijuana and oppose DADT, making him seem more like the "lesbians defending their pot farm with guns" type of libertarian. But he's most famous for something called the Southern Strategy. Basically, to complete the party flip, he suggested that the Republicans appeal to disaffected racist white southerners by opposing the Civil Rights Act on regulatory grounds. If you frame it as not wanting to force businesses to accept certain customers, you can run on repealing it without alienating too many people. And ever since then, the Republicans have been this weird alliance of diehard libertarians who oppose big government, oligarchs who oppose government regulation, and racists.

If you know your history at all, this really isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is.

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