You could easily monetize this by adding sponsored content to every nth request. Something like I can do everything through Dannon® Oikos® Greek Yogurt who gives me strength.
Bible API
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#12This is neat. This makes me curious about the licencing around popular translations, like the Jerusalem Bible or the NIV; is it not legal to post those translations??
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#14Awesome! Would love NLT or NKJV translation.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't take advice from a book that has caused so much physical and mental pain, ruined lives and families.
Explain further?
Surely you must know what the Christians teach people? That many perfectly normal and good things are wrong, that normal human acts are sins (and how they behave to the "sinners" - even from their own), the way they teach it to children, etc?
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#16Meh. I would really love to see the day when religion stops being more than a fantasy fictional story. The project is nice, but I dislike its promotion of religion, and christianity in particular. This story has caused way too much suffering already. I wonder who will first use this project for children indoctrination.
I think this book should be required reading along side the bible: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568801-zealot
Jesus was an incredible person. The bible taken out of context as it is in corporate christianity, really truly doesn't do Jesus justice.
If you love Jesus, read that book - it will only make you love him more.
If you are an atheist - read that book, it will give you a historical basis on which you can critique modern day Christianity.
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#17Nice API. Still, it's a little like a Shakespeare API that supports only Portuguese and Chinese. It would be great to include the original languages.
There's a ton of work getting the data into the correct format for this API. I, too, would love to have Greek and Hebrew available, but I'm glad that we have at least as much as this.
For Hebrew, you can try using some of the data here: https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Export.
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#18Pretty helpful. The more translations the better too. Cross referencing translations is always interesting for me.
> Cross referencing
I see what you did there.
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#19This is neat. This makes me curious about the licencing around popular translations, like the Jerusalem Bible or the NIV; is it not legal to post those translations??
NIV specifically is owned by Biblica, Inc. and requires you ask them about licensing: https://www.biblica.com/resources/bible-faqs/how-do-i-licens...
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#20Meh. I would really love to see the day when religion stops being more than a fantasy fictional story. The project is nice, but I dislike its promotion of religion, and christianity in particular. This story has caused way too much suffering already. I wonder who will first use this project for children indoctrination.
I am sure both of us risk getting our accounts flagged or banned for having an opinion, but perhaps you could use the API to display what concerns you. I can say pretty much all of it concerns me. I don't believe in cherry picking "the good stuff" while avoiding all the atrocities that in there. It's amazing how most don't read their "most important book". They just wait for others to tell them the pretty verses they found. It's sort of like modern day social media. People don't actually read the content, they wait for others to comment on the headline only.
But, a reminder to all the mods and down-vote hungry people, if someone can post a link to a religion's website and tools, we should allowed to comment on how we'd like to use it.