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Re:Why We Fight over Fiction by HenryKissinger on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:34PM (#26051825)
The Bible and other holy books aren't copyrighted. Anyone is free to publish their preferred version of the Bible or the Quran. Yet disagreements over the meaning of these texts have been happening for millenia.
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Re:Why We Fight over Fiction by initplus on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:16PM (#26052030)
I think the metaphor there is similar. The church did not historically take kindly to individuals publishing "their version" of holy texts without sanction of the church.
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Re:Why We Fight over Fiction by Teever on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:38PM (#26052143)
I'm pretty sure that most attempts to revise religious texts in the manner you describe lead to schisms and death.
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Re:Why We Fight over Fiction by Andrex on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:23PM (#26052358)
The Bible doesn't self-classify as fiction.
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