Great Regulars: Perhaps the second big thing about the KJV

that sank into the popular imagination in 2011 was that this is a book for all seasons and reasons. This is partly due to the proselytising efforts of the King James Bible Trust, which, thanks to the popularity and political nous of one of its patrons, Frank Field, has managed to present the KJV as a book that should be known to all, believers and nonbelievers.

In this context, its most spectacular coup was to get the arch atheist and hammer of the faithful Richard Dawkins to appear in a KJBT video to announce, "You can't appreciate English literature unless you are to some extent steeped in the King James Bible [. . .] not to know the King James Bible is to be in some small way barbarian."

from Bryan Appleyard: from The Sunday Times: King James's Version

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