The Rushdie Affair had nothing to do with the 'mistranslation' of the phrase 'Satanic Verses' - and the verses really are satanic in the original story. Sincerely, an Arabist
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ah yes, the age old evil / apple latin mistranslation
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If the Torah as the ‘Word of God’ was sacrosanct, would that not have rendered the Septuagint (the Greek translated Torah, source of the Christian OT) profane at the time? To what extent, consciously or not, had it been ‘Hell-enized’ to appeal to gentiles as the NT seems to do?
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....history would be different if Reagan had taken Mikhail Gorbachev's (twice) offer to destroy nuclear weapons....
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Were you raised Atheist? If not at what age did you convert/transition?
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It wasn't a mistranslation. Khrushchev did use Russian word for "bury" and in doing so he was referring to a line from The Communist Manifesto (1948): "Sie [Bourgeoisie] produziert vor allem ihren eigenen Totengräber" ("above all, bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers")
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Diversity can be divisive
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So the hairless talking monkeys incapacity to communicate is endangering the future existence of every living thing on the planet. Now, where are the galactic overlords or supreme AI singularty when you need them?
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