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\nThe above image, shared on the blog Stuff Fundies Like<\/a>, illustrates the problem with using \u201cWhat Would Jesus Do?\u201d as your guiding principle. People tend to assume that the things that they would do are what Jesus would do.<\/p>\n

If using the WWJD? principle can\u2019t get you to realize that Jesus\u00a0wouldn\u2019t use a modern English\u00a0translation, then you simply don\u2019t know enough about Jesus to implement it correctly.<\/p>\n

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