• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    SMH. I can’t stand when fantasy authors have such shoddy and inconsistent worldbuilding. Doesn’t anyone proofread and run the manuscript by beta readers anymore?

    • Fun fact, the King James version (which wingnuts love to swear adherence to, maybe because of all the flowery language) was supposed to be the edit that fixed many of these worldbuilding gaffes. Obviously, it categorically failed to do so – it even still includes both mildly contradictory accounts of the creation of the world in Genesis, which another poster here already mentioned.

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        1 year ago

        It also includes contradictions on pretty much every part of the gospels in relation to each other but, to be fair, that’s the case in all of them.

        Does beg the question of why they didn’t align them when they had the chance. Some times the word of God is more malleable than others I guess.

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          The original King James version included the apocrypha, which are found in the Catholic versions, but booksellers realized they could sell more copies if they left out the apocrypha. That’s why most copies today don’t have the apocrypha.