popular culture - What He Said: The Words of Jesus Christ https://whathesaid.com Making the words of Jesus Christ easy to read and explore Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:27:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Selling the Bible https://whathesaid.com/2010/01/14/selling-the-bible/ https://whathesaid.com/2010/01/14/selling-the-bible/#respond Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:20:09 +0000 https://whathesaid.com/?p=275 Quick. Take a look at the following magazine covers and figure out what they have in common. Could you figure it out without reading the text? The answer is that they are all Bibles. They are, in fact, called Biblezines, and they each contain the complete text of the NCV New Testament. As the cover […]

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Quick. Take a look at the following magazine covers and figure out what they have in common.

Revolve Refuel
Becoming Align

Could you figure it out without reading the text? The answer is that they are all Bibles. They are, in fact, called Biblezines, and they each contain the complete text of the NCV New Testament. As the cover teasers suggest, there is also additional material interspersed with the biblical content that addresses burning issues like “How to Attract Godly Girls” and asks relevant questions like “Do U Rush To Crush?”

The first cover clearly tries to mimic a girl’s TeenBeat-like magazine, the next is similar in style to a boy’s extreme sports mag, the next looks like Redbook, and the last version which targets men is supposed to look like…I have no idea what that is supposed to look like. If you click on the covers, you can see that they receive mostly favorable praise along with the occasional one-star review from those who are offended by the entire concept.

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