"Bible Emoji: Scripture 4 Millennials"

[DetlefK]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/desperate-christians-try-luring-millennials-to-faith-with-emoji-bible/

"Bible Emoji: Scripture 4 Millennials" was released Sunday in the iBooks store. It's exactly what it sounds like: an adaptation of the King James Version of the Bible using internet slang and emoji, the adorable emoticons frequently used in text messages and tweets. Translated over the past six months by a person who identifies himself or herself only as the sunglasses-guy emoji, the objective of the emoji Bible is to make the text more appealing to people of various backgrounds and age groups.

"Emoji are language-agnostic — they allow you to convey an idea to anyone, regardless of what language they speak,”

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When sunglasses-guy's "Bible Emoji" was announced, reactions were similarly mixed. The creator told the Huffington Post "abusive comments" from atheists and Christians alike led him or her to conceal his or her identity.

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A Barna Group study from 2014 found that 67 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds wanted a "classic" church over a "trendy" one. That, of course, means different things to different people.




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1. Emoticons aren't universal. Western emoticons focus on the mouth. Asian emoticons focus on the eyes. =.=

2. Just as the book condemned mnemonics to the realm of obscurity, religion does no longer fit the mental demands of the time: With the almost permanent connection to the Internet, people have permanent access to information and can divulge in almost any question. The Bible on the other hand promotes a line of thinking where inquiry, doubt and criticism are discouraged and frowned upon.

3. It's somewhat ironic. The Bible bashes women, atheists and gays. Computer-science was invented by Ada Lovelace (a woman who had multiple affairs and was a compulsive gambler), Charles Babbage (a liberal), Konrad Zuse (an atheist) and Alan Turing (a gay atheist).
And now computers shall be used to save Christianity from slipping into obscurity...

[Cartoonist]

1. Dream on

it might just save religion among young people.

I don't know wether to lol or roflmao.

[mr blur]

2. "emoji, the *adorable* emoticons..."?

I think not.

[stone space]

3. This one certainly isn't very adorable.

"emoji, the *adorable* emoticons..."?

I think not.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=228450

I wonder how something like THAT got cherry picked.

[mr blur]

5. Hey, I see what you did there! That was almost amusing. Almost.

Still, thanks for trying.

[stone space]

6. There's nothing amusing about suicide.

That was almost amusing. Almost.

I don't care how many times DU's gunhumpers repeat their mantra that suicides don't count.

[stone space]

4. Here's some emoticons from a math book that I own.

Contact Geometry and Nonlinear Differential Equations

$254.99 (C)
Hardback

Part of Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications
Authors:
Alexei Kushner, Astrakhan State Pedagogical University
Valentin Lychagin, Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway
Vladimir Rubtsov, Université d'Angers, France
Date Published: January 2007
availability: In stock
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521824767

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics/geometry-and-topology/contact-geometry-and-nonlinear-differential-equations

The emoticons are in the form of cats, and appear throughout the book in the margins in appropriate places.

Their names and uses are explained in the preface, on page xii, the last page of this frontmatter pdf file at the publisher's website:

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/24767/frontmatter/9780521824767_frontmatter.pdf