You just wanted to see a picture of Milla Jovovich.

Since we're marginally on the subject ...

Does anyone have recommendations for a good readin' Bible? Like most folks I already have a KJV, published by the Gideons, and swiped from a hotel, just like you're supposed to ... I also have a Douay, which is the usual Catholic version, however, being a Catholic Bible, it's not for reading, it's for storing mass cards in.

I just finished up reading the Koran, and while I've read extensive bits of the Bible, I've never taken the opportunity to go through it, front to back.

I do NOT want to deal with a large, unwieldy, concordance Bible. Although there would be tons of interesting information, I'm hoping for something that 1. won't weigh more than 5 pounds and 2. Is cheap (which means that I'll likely end up just going with something that's already in the house).

I do intend to eventually get the controversial "modernised" Bible approved by the current Archbishop of Canterbury, but it's got to get a lot cheaper before I buy one from amazon.

It is on my wish list, however.

I thought they were just for camhos?

Don't assume that anyone that doesn't accept it doesn't know and understand what it says. Of course that could be possible since bible scholars have been working on it for a very long time and are still at it. Maybe once they figure it out, a new version comes out and they have to start over.
Knowing content and understanding what it says, doesn't make it true either.

As far as rejecting without reading a book, I do that with Dr Phil's books. :)

Sycamore's Amazon store would greatly appreciate such a purchase.

Sycamore's amazon store is a source of wonderment.

I may be buying a tent first. I, whose idea of camping is a hotel with room service that shuts down at 9pm, will be spending my late summer vacation camping. Sort of.

Why camping if you don't really like it? Is this a "forced camping" situation?

The floor in Slang's new place is still dirt?

When you dig a hole in the ground, all you got is dirt ...

For an easy to read translation that doesn't modernize anything controversial... i would recommend the New Living Translation. Tyndale House has quite a few choices.

As appealing as that may be, I was merely trying to show you religious wackos that I keep a few esoteric texts in my ivory tower. And not just to level furniture either.

I've got a kitchen but I'm no chef. ;)

Kansas Debate Challenges Science Itself
 

From here.

You know, is it me or does anyone else get the impression that only conservative Christians could have gotten away with this. If pagans or UFO enthusiasts had pushed something like this they would have been laughed at.

BTW, considering the separation of church and state, someone should remind conservatives that if religion creeps into this, there is no control over which religious viewpoint is taught. Being an avid Terry Pratchett fan, I'm leaning towards the world as a disc on the backs of four elephants on the back of a giant turtle. :D

http://www.chris-miller.org/books/pr.../discworld.jpg

There was a version of the bible called the "Good News Bible" that was made around the Jesus freak era of the 70s. It's kind of fun to read -- only the NT was translated though. Lots of "groovy" language, iirc.

Smurf, I too was raised in the southern baptist tradition and feel your pain. But don't blame the big haired ladies and green bean casseroles on God. They mean well, same as anyone else. Baptists are just people who don't wave to each other in the liquor store. And most of em that I know are decent people (again, just like any other group). One or two of them got in the news with the 'matthew shepard is burning in hell' thing, but they don't represent the rest of us. The southern baptist church is the protestant version of the roman catholic one. Top heavy leadership that concentrates more on matters of "policy" and such than on matters pertaining to the soul. It's a disease that organized religion has to fight against.

I didn't say whether you understood it or not, nor did I speculate. I merely stated that simply being indoctrinated in an organized religion does not mean you understand the contents of the book.

Seems like you're the one jumping to conclusions.