Bible buying

[rebelraising]

So, I want to buy a Bible. There are many and various reasons for this, that I'll maybe go into another time- anyway, rest assured that I'm still the heathen you all know and love. No theism happening any time soon.

Anyway. So I went to see if I could get the cool little box-set book-by-book version off Amazon, because I can't find it in the shops anywhere, and I'm embarassed to ask for it (go figure). And, well. I'm enormously amused by what they've got in the "perfect partner" program with it.

Comments

Also good...

[jinty]

I also like the two reviews they have just below it:

(1 star - 2 of 10 found the following review helpful)
Biblical nonsense, 6 August, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from England If a huge lie makes you feel better about yourself, then this is the book for you. Usually such history books are backed up with masses of evidence to prove its hypothesis. This book, however, seems to have no evidence to back up it's highly dubious story. In fact, one might even deem it a story book.

(5 stars - 13 of 27 found the following review helpful)
This book will literally save your life., 30 November, 2000
Reviewer: (n.m.thomas@salford.ac.uk) from England This is the book of life. It will cure you from sickness, both physical and mental. It will comfort you in times of trouble. Its will de-stress you. It will give you help you sort out your finances. This book is essential for life.

Don't buy!

[wouldprefernot2.livejournal.com]

Steal one the next time you stay at a hotel. Actually, I don't know if you have this in the Ukane, but here in North America there's a Protestant evangelical lay organization called The Gideons, who place bibles in hotel rooms. I think they actually want travellers to take them; figuring that each time that happens, another soul has been saved from hellfire. I got mine outside of Memphis, Tennessee. The translation is the old Authorized Version, full of that inaccurate, confusing, poetic Jacobethan prose that shaped the way people read and wrote for three centuries.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

You can find the complete text of the bible online, well at least the many christian versions.

In addition you can find it in the original greek, and translate it yourself, if you feel so inclined :)

[andypop.livejournal.com]

Well, I read the first bit of the Koran last year & it was really like 'Bible 2', with all your favourites returning like Gabriel etc. And yet not, sort of like Grease and Grease 2.

[althea5000.livejournal.com]

I'm particularly amused because I know jeskaradia needs to buy a Koran. Perhaps you two should team up?

[foxymoron.livejournal.com]

the bible's exciting! ...even though its all a load of crap ::gets struck by lightning::....you seem fun... please add me before you go friends only