"A CORRUPTED PERVERSION OF SCRIPTURE IS FAR MORE EVIL THAN (...) HUMAN SACRIFICE OR SOMETHING."
I have no words. Because my words would be a corruption and this ironically Middle Eastern looking bastard would burn me.
I just love the idea that there is an omnipotent being in the skies who wrote a book and supervised a number of translations, turned his back for just five goddamn minutes and when he looked again, it was nothing but fuckups, and now he will condemn you for eternity if you accidentally read that one and not one of the good ones.
From the comments
"Brother Bryan, we do an Acts 19:19 bondfire every year around October 31st in our assembly. I'll have to remember to share this."
Acts 19:19 from the KJV states, "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver."
"Curious arts"? WTF? Lets try the New International Version, "A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas."
Whoa! That's a lot easier to understand. What's the beef?
But sorceries are sorceries. "Curious arts" could include sorceries, science, modern technology, and interpretive dance. Clearly, the NIV is trying to give a free pass to a whole range of sins, like painting in a modernist style or owning a smartphone.
Considering how many of them live it wouldn't surprise me if they do interpret that verse to forbid more than just magic.
Also take note of the use of the word curious. They're against a lot of science which is fueled by curiosity, as fundies aren't curious since they know everything about the world and that all you ever need to know is in the KJV.
That is basically exactly what is happening. Only except for considering them all "Muslims", they have all sorts of divisions and subdivisions and factions used by politicians to turn people on each other.
Which like all religious schisms and wars, look to outsiders like comic books nerds arguing over which version of Green Lantern would win in a fight, only with more bombings and acid attacks. Occasionally stopping to unite and attack those who think the Flash is better.