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“Let Us Now Praise KJV”

“Let Us Now Praise KJV” is a Feb. 16, 2011, column by Scott McLemee in the periodical Inside Higher Ed that claims the King James Bible “is the only one with any flavor; the rest are as appetizing as a sawdust sandwich.”

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“Modernity and Religion”

Read an April 11, 2011, “Sightings” essay by Martin Marty that discusses the evangelical penchant for adopting Bible translations other than the KJV. Marty also refers to an essay on the KJV by Diarmaid MacCulloch in the Feb. 3, 2011, London Review of Books.

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“When the King Saved God”

Read a column in the May 2011 edition of Vanity Fair by prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens, who argues that “our language and culture are incomplete without” the King James translation of the Bible.

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“What is a Christian Response to bin Laden’s Death?”

Read a blog post at America magazine, the Jesuit weekly, titled “What is the Christian Response to Bin Laden’s Death?” It is written by the Rev. James Martin and argues that “as a Christian … I cannot rejoice at the death of a human being, no matter how monstrous he was.”

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