[cuss cop] (Praise Polluter) [zebrabible] Incident Report: Cuss Crimes and Improper Praise
Praise Police <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.bible |
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Internet Patrol — Praise Police Cuss Cop Incident Report Location: alt.bible, alt.bible.prophecy, alt.christnet.bible, alt.christnet Offender Handle: [email protected] User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Probable Cause: Caps-lock brandishing, statistical showboating, improper praise, and theological impersonation. Summary of Violations - Caps-Lock Discharge in a Public Forum: Excessive all-caps used as a substitute for argument. - Statistical Menacing: “at least over 6,900 errors” — double hedge plus a suspiciously tidy panic-number. - Improper Praise: Elevating one translation and a website to devotional objects. - Theological Impersonation of a Deity: Declaring what God “NEVER APPROVED” and who “made God to be a liar.” - Title/Name Confusion: Treating conventional styling (LORD) as a moral failure rather than a translation norm. - Textual History Recklessness: Misfiring on LXX, Masoretic practice, and basic linguistics (Greek adonai?). - Self-Contradiction in the First Degree: Claiming “no one knows God’s exact name,” then calling everyone else liars for not using your preferred reconstruction. - Crosspost Endangerment: Broadcasting the same siren across four newsgroups. - Commercial Devotion: “Go to: jw.org” mid-sermon — ad-invocation during worshipful argument. Evidence, With Noted Infractions > Fact: Most Bibles contain at least over 6,900 errors! - Charge: Statistical Menacing and Fact-Loader Abuse. “At least” and “over” in the same breath is the numerical equivalent of shouting with two megaphones. > LET IT BE KNOWN THAT "LORD" IS NOT WHAT THE OLDEST BIBLE DOCUMENTS > SHOW. - Charge: Caps-Lock Discharge. Also, context missing: English convention renders YHWH as LORD (small caps) to mark the Tetragrammaton. That’s a style choice, not criminal tampering. > They just made God to be a liar. - Charge: Theological Impersonation and Character Assassination of the Almighty. Disagreeing with a convention ≠ indicting translators for divine defamation. > "Yahweh" is the best guess Hebrew form before translation. Remember, > no one in the world knows God's exact name. - Observation: If “no one knows,” maybe dial back the felony counts against everyone who doesn’t choose your guess. > However, in early BCE they translated the Hebrew OT Bible into Greek, > called the Septuagint. This is where they removed the Tetragrammaton, > and replaced it with "Lord". (Greek adonai) - Charge: Linguistic Negligence. In Greek, the term is Kyrios. Also, earliest LXX evidence is mixed; some fragments preserve the Name in paleo-Hebrew or transliterations. It’s a history, not a heist. > The JW Bible, NWT, is one of them. ... Go to: jw.org - Charge: Improper Praise and Commercial Devotion. You’re praising a brand like it’s the Burning Bush. Idolatry via hyperlink is still idolatry. > God is the author of the Bible. To chop His name out of His own > books, shows disreguard for our loving Creator! - Charge: Spelling Under the Influence (disreguard). Also, misframing. Translators marking YHWH as LORD (small caps) is not “chopping;” it’s consistency with a longstanding qere (“read as”) tradition. Corrective Notes (Community Service Edition) - On YHWH: The Tetragrammaton appears ~6,828 times in the Hebrew Bible. English Bibles often print LORD (small caps) to signal that Hebrew form. That’s a respectful, transparent convention, not a cover-up. - On “Jehovah”: It’s a hybrid Latinized form from combining YHWH consonants with the vowels of Adonai. Old, yes; original, no. - On “Yahweh”: Common scholarly reconstruction, widely discussed, still not certain. Certainty theater is not scholarship. - On the LXX: Early Greek manuscripts show varied handling of the Name. Saying “this is where they removed it” is an oversimplification masquerading as a smoking gun. - On Exodus 6:3: There’s longstanding debate about its reading and meaning. Quoting translations like baseball cards doesn’t settle textual history. Improper Praises Logged - Praising a translation as if salvation depends on its branding. - Equating typography with truthfulness. - Treating ALL-CAPS as a sacrament. Cuss Crimes Tally - Actual profanity: None detected. - Cuss-adjacent violations: Accusations of divine lying, slander of entire translation communities, and exclamation-point battery. Recommended Sentencing - 30 days Caps-Lock probation. - 10 hours remedial Textual Criticism 101 (LXX, Masoretic qere/ketiv, and English style conventions). - 500 lines: “Piety is not proportional to punctuation.” - Community restitution: Replace three exclamation points with one footnote. Exhibits (Quoted) > “ABSOLUTELY FALSE.” > “They just made God to be a liar.” > “LET IT BE KNOWN THAT ‘LORD’ IS NOT WHAT THE OLDEST BIBLE DOCUMENTS > SHOW.” “This is where they removed the Tetragrammaton, and replaced > it with ‘Lord’. (Greek adonai)” “The JW Bible, NWT, is one of them. > ... Go to: jw.org” Disposition - Citation issued for religious grandstanding and misuse of typography. - Advice given: Less shouting, more sources; fewer ultimatums, better footnotes. The Almighty’s reputation is sturdy enough to survive small caps. -- Ofcr. Heart Vader