For Only $2.99 You Can Have the Emoji Bible

[Recusant]

Hmm. . .

The story as it appears in the International Business Times has a more neutral title ("New Emoji Bible Attempts To Make Christianity 'More Approachable' As Millennials Leave Church") than the RawStory link below, but the page includes an asinine auto-play video.

It made me think of our new member (aka Fred) IDontHateBelievers' thread about the Bible.

"Desperate Christians try luring millennials to faith with 'emoji' Bible" | RawStory

It's a holy book, it's $2.99 and it might just save religion among young people.

"Bible Emoji: Scripture 4 Millennials" was released Sunday in the iBooks store. It's exactly what it sounds like: an adaptation of the King James Version of the Bible using internet slang and emoji, the adorable emoticons frequently used in text messages and tweets. Translated over the past six months by a person who identifies himself or herself only as the sunglasses-guy emoji, the objective of the emoji Bible is to make the text more appealing to people of various backgrounds and age groups.

"[Emoji are] language-agnostic — they allow you to convey an idea to anyone, regardless of what language they speak," the creator told the Memo exclusively. "A major goal of this whole process was to take a book that I think is very non-approachable to lay readers and try to make it more approachable by removing a lot of its density."

The 3,282-page emoji Bible includes interpretations of all 66 books in the Bible and advertises itself as a "fun way to share the gospel." But it's already causing controversy, pointing to a larger challenge facing modern Christians: How do you engage millennials without being cheesy?

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[Sandra Craft]

That is desperate.  Maybe it's just my age, but I can't help thinking an emoji filled bible would be very distracting.

[Velma]

This is not the first time Christians have tried to tap into pop culture in an attempt to make Christianity "relevant." It did not work then. I seriously doubt this will work now.

[No one]

That seems like $5.00 too much.

[xSilverPhinx]

Though I wouldn't pay to have a look, I do wonder what the final "translation" is.    Probably something overly picturesque and tiring, such as: 



...and I wonder how many times they used something similar to  ?


:incense: =  

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[Crow]

[xSilverPhinx]

[Davin]

[Crow]

Lets see if people can guess the biblical story. This should be easy.

[Magdalena]

Lets see if people can guess the biblical story. This should be easy.

Is this, Genesis 22:1–2?
1. God said to Abraham, "Take a your kid and a knife and kill him."
2. Abraham said, "I love you, so I will."
3. God said, "Stop!" (I think that's an angel, laughing because he thinks the whole thing is hilarious. ) And he says, "Instead, cut the tip of your eggplants, always."
4. Abraham said, "OK, I will because I love you."
5. God said, "I am shocked and I can't believe how stupid you really are."

...Well, something like that, right?

[Magdalena]

^^^^
That's just gonna cause more confusion. 
I wonder what they're gonna use for Ezekiel 23:20? 

[Velma]

^^^^^

I'm thinking they're going to have to make some up.

[Recusant]

According to the article, this "book" doesn't just use emoji--it also uses "internet slang." The thing is, probably more than half of that will be outdated in a year or two. They'll have to keep putting out new editions. A fine cash cow, if it takes off.

[No one]

Outdated and bible? Surely you jest,  this can't be so.

[Icarus]

Hey the price is right. Maybe more non reader creatards will be motivated to read the bible. (More truth than poetry).