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Blasphemy Challenge Should've Used the King James Version
Posted on: May 17, 2008 - 2:09am
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Blasphemy Challenge Should've Used the King James Version
Don't you think it would've made the Bible look more ridiculous if people were saying "Holy GHOST"?
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"Ghost" = "spirit". "Holy spirit" is just as wacky, really. How about "Holy Soul"?
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They could just as easily said Holy efrgn2q4[tobhjnq[.
the king james version has ghost and not spirit because it's the germanic equivalent (English is a germanic language). But, what Tilberian said and like HisWillness, it's pretty stupid either way.
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
A silly notion by any other name is still silly
You guys are missing the point. Stopwith all the technical answers. What I'm saying is don't you think it would've been funnier if thousands of people were saying "Holy GHOST, easter bunny, santa claus..."?
No. They're both funny. I happen to be used to ghost because that's more common than spirit in my experience. Spirit sounds retarded when I think of it that way.
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
I start snickering from "God" on, so I miss most of those lists.
I don't think "ghost" would really be any funnier. Just think of "spirit" in the sense of Saturday Night Live cheerleading "Go Team Spirit!!! wooo!" and it's plenty silly enough.
Besides, the whole concept is absurd.
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In my taking of the Blasphemy Challenge, I stated that the Holy Spirit is also known as the Holy Ghost, and even as the Holy Spook.
So I acknowledged that old translation in my version.
I also noted that many languages' words for soul or spirit or ghost are derived from words for breath, which makes the Holy Spirit literally the Holy Breath. Pfffffft!