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Re:Structured Bible Data API in Multiple Translations by fastball on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:19AM (#28499460)
The specific wording was "most Christian churches", which given how many different denominations there are in protestantism is probably accurate, although I do not have a source for this.
Re:Structured Bible Data API in Multiple Translations by hitekker on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:07AM (#28501824)
The GP’s comment sought to marginalize & disrespect a religious text by misrepresenting the text's prominence within its own religion.

I suspect we would not be playing word games, if they instead said that SuperNotes is not a real notetaking app and justified it with “notetaking means a lot of things to a lot of people”

Re:Structured Bible Data API in Multiple Translations by fastball on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:14PM (#28506807)
The work to marginalize/sideline those texts was already done by many others over an extended period of time, GP was just pointing that out (and pointing out why they have done so).

I would be happy for you to say that Supernotes is not a note-taking app if instead you felt it was more of a knowledge-management app or a digital zettelkasten system. Note-taking does mean different things to different people. Some people don't think it's effective note-taking if you're not doing it with pen and paper.

Re:Structured Bible Data API in Multiple Translations by froh on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:07AM (#28499637)
yes. the weighted (by membership) majority of denominations clearly includes the full canon with what the minority labels "apocryphal" scriptures.
Re:Structured Bible Data API in Multiple Translations by pgeorgi on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:24AM (#28499719)
The original statement went for "most Christian churches", not "most Christians" (what you'd get with your "weighting"). Maybe a useless metric but the one chosen up-thread.

Going from there to implicitly weighting by membership seems rather arbitrary: I could also claim to weigh by readership (or hours of reading, or any other metric that includes actually working with the text) which might give a pretty different result, given how the idea of individually reading and interpreting the Bible is a major raison d'être of Protestantism.

Re:Structured Bible Data API in Multiple Translations by froh on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:15AM (#28508319)
there are hundreds of denominations and thousands of "independent" churches. we can argue in which way we weigh their voices, but not ignore their sizes completely.
Re:Structured Bible Data API in Multiple Translations by pgeorgi on Monday September 13, 2021 @12:27PM (#28513447)
A perfectly good case to make (I'm not quite convinced by "most churches" as a metric), but doing so is different from moving goalposts and calling it "weighting".