Bible Will Be Inscribed In 100 Languages

A Jerusalem museum has launched a project involving thousands of people who are hand-inscribing Bibles in their native languages, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The interfaith volunteers from 31 different countries are taking part in the project backed by both an Israeli NGO and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and aims to unite people across cultural and religious divides.

The Jerusalem Post reports that the ultimate goal of the project is to have 100 Bibles inscribed in 100 languages within five years, and they will be displayed at a Jerusalem museum.

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[ArthurTwoShedsJackson]

07:09 PM on 07/21/2009

Explain to me how the bible has *ever* "united people across cultural and religious divides"?

[CigarGod]

10:01 AM on 07/14/2009

Too bad we're not talking about the Jefferson Bible.

[LMPE]

01:56 AM on 07/14/2009

How about translating it into Beavis and Butt-Head talk? The Bible would sound cool for once!

[ArthurTwoShedsJackson]

07:09 PM on 07/21/2009

Well, every other word from Song of Songs would be "huh huh huh"!

[truthartbeauty]

12:35 AM on 07/14/2009

always the problem, never the solution

[truthartbeauty]

12:34 AM on 07/14/2009

well that's about the most pointless worthless waste of time and money and resources I can imagine. disgusting1 the very last thing this world needs is more of that sht.

[mommadona]

12:33 AM on 07/14/2009

I thought there was only one bible. Am I missing something in the translation?

[themodernleader]

11:56 PM on 07/13/2009

Absurd ideologies are laid upon guillible people to permit exploitation and control. All authoritarian regimes create impossible stories that are received as absolute gospel reenforced by total faith and obedience to the exploiters. Our forefathers established a Constitution to militate against such mental encirclement and captivity and human exploitation.

[minimalist syntax]

10:57 PM on 07/13/2009

I would love to see this exhibit.

[smilodon1]

10:34 PM on 07/13/2009

A waste of good paper to promote smoke and mirrors. Heinlein said it best: "The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."

[richie42]

02:05 AM on 07/14/2009

Which is why I'm deist.

[CigarGod]

10:03 AM on 07/14/2009

I have to disgree with the last sentence.
It produces zombies better than anything else I can think of.

[Gasparilla]

08:52 PM on 07/13/2009

And it will still be gibberish. Make sure you don't eat any clams, mussels, or lobsters. It's a sin, or so the bible says. And don't forget water covered the whole earth over the highest mountains.....not.

[richie42]

02:01 AM on 07/14/2009

Which is why I'm deist.

[PWM]

09:48 AM on 07/14/2009

It is a book on mythology - nothing more.

[themodernleader]

08:30 PM on 07/13/2009

The more faithful we are to our religion the less faithfulness we have for the Constitution. The inspired knowledge of faith prepares the insecure and unfairly burdened for life-after-death. The rules and regulations of the Constitution provides faithful citizens with a level playng field at birth and rights and duties for a more perfect existence for a more perfect union until death.

[CigarGod]

10:04 AM on 07/14/2009

Fav'd.
Have a cigar.

[1sparrow]

07:11 PM on 07/13/2009

judas sold out for; 30 pieces of gold... ; 30 pieces of silver...; a potters field...; publishing rights international.