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I don't take advice from a book that has caused so much physical and mental pain, ruined lives and families.
Explain further?
Learn to read or google stuff like "spanish inquisition"
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Re: Bible API
#32I find it strange that you have a default translation. I expect the sort of crowd who would most likely use this will also be very particular about which translation is being served.
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#33This 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??
Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human…
I expect that translating a work gives you a claim on the translation, which is a creative work. (Mechanical translation doesn't have this effect)
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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…
You’re 100% right about people not reading. I actually teach an adult Sunday School class in my spare time because it’s really fascinating to read and get into the history. My slogan for the class is “You cannot be misled if you’ve read.” We spend a lot of time talking about man made traditions that aren’t biblically supported as well as the cherry picking without context that often happens. Christianity can withstan…
Christianity is also man made.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human…
I expect that translating a work gives you a claim on the translation, which is a creative work. (Mechanical translation doesn't have this effect)
“it is my sincerely held religious belief that no translations in fact happened...”
Re: Bible API
#36I find it strange that you have a default translation. I expect the sort of crowd who would most likely use this will also be very particular about which translation is being served.
There’s unfortunately not a lot of public translations available outside of KJV.
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#37I find it strange that you have a default translation. I expect the sort of crowd who would most likely use this will also be very particular about which translation is being served.
Eh, I think it's fine as it reduces friction to getting the data. People particular about using KJV or whatever can easily switch. I'm more surprised Cherokee is one of the supported languages!
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#38This 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??
Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human…
Additional edit: removing somewhat off-topic discussion that was replying to an example in the above comment, and discussion of whether a controversial passage was censored.
And no, it was not censoring it (thanks to all of you who replied below pointing this out!). The issue was my incorrect editing of the URL without accounting for the fact that the URL contained URL-encoded characters, namely + as %20.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human…
I expect that translating a work gives you a claim on the translation, which is a creative work. (Mechanical translation doesn't have this effect)
I think a translation is a derived work, thus coming under the copyright of the original owner, not the translator. Not sure how that applies to translations of public domain works. I can assure you though that I am not the copyright holder of a Mickey Mouse translation in French just because I've translated it from English to French.
Copyright is different from patents in this way: I can own a patent on an extension of an invention that you hold a patent on. I can't own the copyright to a derived work of a work you own the copyright to. In fact, you automatically own the copyright of the derived work that I produced (e.g. Fanfiction)
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#40You 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.
However certain I want to be that this would never happen, this is hilarious.