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"First of all, King James was one of the best kings, if not THE best king, that England ever had. He had nothing to do with the actual translation work, other than granting his permission for the work to be done, and seeing to it that the translation committee had what they needed to get the job done."
It doesn't MATTER whether James was a Christian, a non-Christian, a good Christian, a bad Christian or an indifferent Christian. If you do the homework, I think you will find some interesting reading and a good testament to the moral values and manner of living of King James in his letter to his son in the book "Basilicon Doron".
Trying to character assassinate James is a red herring, a straw man argument, and totally irrelevant to the real issue. The point is that THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS A TRUE AND FAITHFUL TRANSLATION OF THE RIGHT MANUSCRIPTS AND IS THE BEST BIBLE THAT HAS EVER BEEN PRINTED (OR, IMHO, WILL EVER BE PRINTED). The tactics of the "Yea Hath God Said? Society" never change."
And what I'm about to quote here, cold fusion, you'd better sit down. Because you're not gonna like what you're about to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_relationships_of_James_I_of_England
'The personal relationships of James I of England included relationships with his male courtiers'
'James adopted a severe stance towards sodomy using English law. His book on kingship, Basilikón Doron, (Greek for "Royal Gift") lists sodomy among those “horrible crimes which ye are bound in conscience never to forgive”. He also singled out sodomy in a letter to Lord Burleigh giving directives that Judges were to interpret the law broadly and were not to issue any pardons, saying that "no more colour may be left to judges to work upon their wits in that point."
However, nearly two centuries later, Jeremy Bentham, in an unpublished manuscript, denounced James as a hypocrite after his crackdown: "[James I], if he be the author of that first article of the works which bear his name, and which indeed were owned by him, reckons this practise among the few offences which no Sovereign ever ought to pardon. This must needs seem rather extraordinary to those who have a notion that a pardon in this case is what he himself, had he been a subject, might have stood in need of."'
I think James I himself does a perfectly good job of annihilating his own credibility, never mind assassinating his own character. Certainly the basis of modern Fundamentalist Christianity.
That Bible you right-wing fundies drool over so much? The whole basis of your 'beliefs', 'faith' and dogma? It was written, collated & edited by someone who was, at best, bisexual.
Ergo, your KJV* - and right-wing Fundamentalist Christianity as a whole - is Gay. Q.E.D., bitch.
*- And now you know why it's referred to as the QJV: Queen James Version.
Have you read that forum? Tinfoil (ass)Hattery Central! As for this thread on Fluoridation:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=66850.0
They've clearly never seen "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".
Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper, anyone?:
"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
General Jack D. Ripper: 'Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.'
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: 'Lord, Jack.'
JDR: 'You know when fluoridation first began?'
LM: 'I... no, no. I don't, Jack.'
JDR: 'Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.'
That film was a mirror reflecting Conspiracy Theory bullshit (thus why those on PP.com certainly havent, nay daren't see it). Decades before internet conspiracy theory tinfoil (ass)hattery. Ye gods, but Stanley Kubrick was a visionary film maker. In more ways than one.