{"id":21737,"date":"2014-02-19T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21737"},"modified":"2014-02-19T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:41:50","slug":"king-james-autocorrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/king-james-autocorrect.html","title":{"rendered":"King James Autocorrect"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21738\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/Gods-Autocorrect-crspe140218.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"327\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/speedbump\/2014\/02\/18#.UwPUAmI7sus\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yesterday\u2019s Speed Bump cartoon<\/a> featured God using a phone with autocorrect, which kept \u201cfixing\u201d his King James English. The cartoon brings into focus a serious point \u2013 that people imagine God speaking with the language \u2013 and the concepts, and the morals, and much else in terms of baggage \u2013 that came with the texts and translations that influenced them. Hence the idea that God speaks in what is in fact merely typical English of the Elizabethan age.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2014\/02\/18#.UwPUqGI7sus\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Non Sequitur<\/a> also had a cartoon yesterday featuring God:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21739\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/Genesis-of-Genesis-nq140218.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"176\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u2019s Speed Bump cartoon featured God using a phone with autocorrect, which kept \u201cfixing\u201d his King James English. 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