• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Uh, I don’t know how it is these days, but there definitely was a “modern French” version of the full Bible, when I was a kid. And that was an Adventist church so it’s pretty sure there is the same in the US. I also had the whole bible as a comic book, very accessible.

    Are you saying that you need something like the Simple English Bible, for normally educated US audiences?

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      9 hours ago

      I’m not trying to comment on that, but lots of people everywhere benefit from simple text versions of things. That’s why there’s a simple English Wikipedia and a leichte Sprache version of German government websites.

      They would serve their goals better by casting a wider net. There’s also an unfortunate overlap between people who need simple language versions of texts and vulnerable people, whom churches normally like to target.