{"id":369,"date":"2008-10-05T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=369"},"modified":"2008-10-05T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T14:38:26","slug":"italian-tv-gives-in-to-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2008\/10\/italian-tv-gives-in-to-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian TV Gives In To Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope&#039;s been <a title=\"BBC NEWS | Europe | Pope laments decline of scripture\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7653456.stm\">moaning<\/a> that people of the world (and particularly Europe) aren&#039;t as interested in reading Christian religious texts as they used to be. Naturally this is seen as a dangerous trend, so he&#039;s setting off on a crusade to make sure as many people as possible read the now-arbitrary oft-translated words and consider it gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, when Italian state TV reads out the Bible back-to-back over the next six nights, they&#039;ll be reading out the original language version with original wording, y&#039;know, just to avoid any possible misunderstanding of the Bible&#039;s contents. What is the original language version? The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_sea_scrolls\">Dead Sea Scrolls<\/a> form some of the oldest copies of the Old Testament ever found, but we don&#039;t actually have all of those yet. Additionally, no one can quite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_testament#Authorship\">agree<\/a> on whether the authors of the New Testament wrote within two centuries of Christ or not.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. So what are we left with, state propaganda? Jackanory published as fact?<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m sorry, Pope, but stop and consider for a moment that this dangerous trend could actually be a good thing. After all, it&#039;s the Catholic Church which has been historically dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope&#039;s been moaning that people of the world (and particularly Europe) aren&#039;t as interested in reading Christian religious texts as they used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}