Bible

I wanna finally read the Bible even though I'm not religious. Is there a specific version I should read?

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king james

Not NKJ?

Find the translation you lile best and read that. Dont listen to anyone else who tells you which one is the best etc. In translation, always go with your gut

Just read the KJV, it's good enough to have been used for the last 400 years by pretty much every denomination.

Douay Reims has good prose and all the books.

Read a Catholic Bible like the Douay Reims, as the other user suggested

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This meme was made by a brainlet.
>le catholic church supressed science
It was a catholic priest who first renewed the heliocentric hypothesis. Nicolas Copernicus.
>but muh Galileo was persecuted
Galileo himself was a major celebrity figure in the Catholic Church science scene and frequently spoke to prelate-scientists. That is how he even entered their radar and why the Church was so interested in him.

He he insisted without concrete evidence that his hypothesis was correct. Mostly as a result of his inability to explain certain phenomena (retrograde motion for instance), he was sworn to not renounce teaching the model as fact until he offered proof. He went back on this promise, which irritated some. What really fucked was the caprice of Pope Urban VIII, who after being a fan of the astronomer, having met him and spoken with him on several occasions, suddenly feuded with him. Some say this is because of papal politics, others say it is because of a small jab in the paper. He was the main reason for his continued house arrest (which would have otherwise lasted a short time).

Ironically, despite being on house arrest, the Catholic Church graciously fed and took care of him. He was in ailing health, nearly blind. He was still permitted to write, research, and carry on with life as usual. He produced his best work during these years (he predicted Neptune on paper 200+ years before anyone else) because he didn't have a care in the world and did not need to rely on anyone.

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>sworn to renounce teaching the model as fact until he offered proof.

Why is the Douay-Rheims version considered Catholic?

Non-religious person here. KJV was amazing as a piece of literature.

Galileo could not have handled the political ramifications of his ideas any worse than he did.

KJV is fine. When reading, think of Jesus as a cynic philosopher like Diogenes, but with more decency and not constantly shitting on Plato

King James is the most beautiful, and most famous verses come from how the King James renders them. If you’re not reading for religious purposes, it’s definitely the one I’d suggest.
If you’re reading it for religious purposes, read whichever version is used at your congregation, or a translation endorsed by your church leaders

KJV, as close to the original edition as you can stomach — ideally, Paradife Loft-tier. For all verses you can't parse, or if you're getting lost in the narrative, keep an RSV Catholic 2nd ed. nearby.

There are slight differences in how Catholic and Protestant Bibles render certain verses, and Catholic Bibles include seven books (known as the Deuterocanonical books) which Protestant Bibles don’t have. The Douay-Rheims Bible is a Catholic Bible from 1610, sanctioned by the Catholic Church, in full accordance with Catholic teachings.
Personally, as a Catholic, I don’t recommend it. I find it attempts to translate too literally from Latin, making it sound a lot more clunky than the King James (the Protestant Bible from 1611, commonly Catholics recommend the Douay-Rheims as a Catholic alternative to the King James).
I say, if you want a Catholic Bible, my favorite is the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (also known as the Ignatius Bible). If you want an Orthodox Bible, get an Orthodox Study Bible. If you want a Protestant Bible, read a King James or whichever translation your church uses. If you don’t care about denomination and just want to read the Bible for cultural reasons, I’d say go for King James as it’s the most beautiful poetically speaking, and it is the most used English Bible from the last 400 years

Douay-Rheims has Maccabees, then? I've not read those books yet. I'm Catholic too, and I've been using the NASB and the KJV/NKJV for years now. I only found out about the DRA a week ago, and it's pretty embarrassing, to say the least. I feel like I should've known about it much sooner.

I'm pretty much used to the syntax and diction of early modern English because of my time with the KJV, so I've been somewhat reticent towards getting a DRA Bible because I didn't think there were enough differences to justify switching.

KVJ, also, go online and use a Strongs Concordance (or buy one) which translates words in the bible to their original Hebrew and Greek, it makes the bible more interesting, like a puzzle

Yes, Dhouay-Rheims has all the deuterocanon/apocrypha, including Maccabees

>I'm not religious
I'd suggest you watch some lectures on the Bible as literature (any lecture that touches on the paronomasia and numerology would be great) and about its context in history.
You'll likely come away underwhelmed reading it straight as an irreligious person.

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Galileo wasn't 'persecuted', as popular belief holds. The man was literally just a massive douche that practically begged the church to put him down.

Skeptic's Annotated Bible

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