Recent hacks and the King James Version
[ by Charles Cameron — the OMB and Ashley Madison hacks — and some verses to consider alongside them ]
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Given my interest in apocalyptic, which Wikipedia describes thus —
An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: apokalypsis, from apo and kalypto meaning “uncovering”), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation. In religious contexts it is usually a disclosure of something hidden.
— it is only natural that the revelation of secrets should provide a sometime theologian such as myself with scriptural memories..
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It has long seemed to me that “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again” (Matthew 7. 1-2) offers an extraordinarily non-vengeful, non-violent option within the tit-for-tat, eye-for-an-eye scriptural formulation of justice.
August 23rd, 2015 at 1:12 am
Perhaps it’s cynicism getting the better of me, but it all starts to remind me of Ecclesiasties,
‘The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.’
There aren’t any secrets anymore, so it’s a bit of a conceit to pretend that we are keeping them.