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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The problem we ran into the last few times the bible was translated was who gets to do the translation. There's already evidence of tampering here and there.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, but there is ISO guidance for translating into simple language, and if a congregation can agree on an English translation, going from that into simple English would be a lot easier for people to double check.

Actually, I went to Catholic school. It would have been a great exercise to have us translate a biblical passage into simple English- why the hell didn’t we do that?*

  • I know, I know, Catholics don’t want people forming their own views on the text without the intermediary of the church… but they definitely encouraged us to do so in a bunch of other ways, because they are trying to modernize a little. Plus, we had a teacher who was a technically not out to the students but very stereotypical (in the affected way that some thoughtful teachers who want to be obviously safe for students to talk to about gender and sexual orientation are) lesbian and we definitely had remarried divorcées as teachers who were open about that m, so it’s not like we were that strict.
[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

🎶Maria Magdalena 🎶a victim of the fight🎶