The website, which features a photo of the 37-year-old West glaring at onlookers, urges visitors to buy with the line, "20 Dolla, 20 Dolla, Get 'em while they hot!"Īpparently, that's quite the bargain in post-modern America. The Book of Yeezus is not art or novelty. "How does spirituality, an evolutionary reflex, manifest in a digitized world? Why does Kanye West take such outsized significance in the lives of many? The Book of Yeezus is an interventionist art, coffee-table novelty, that will appeal to Kanye fans everywhere and those made curious by this enormous cultural phenomenon." In its foreword, we explore our culture's state of religiosity and its capacity for wonder," marketing language around the Bible reads. "The Book of Yeezus is a creative vision, bound in a gold leaf-etched, illustrated, black leather book that details the story of Genesis–for the new age. If the Bible, the most singularly significant publication in the ancient canon of Western tradition, were updated to reflect our modern society, what would it look like? In a world according to this opportunistic publisher, it would look like the Book of Yeezus. And Kanye said, Let there be light: and there was light." I'm not sure what the publishers did with the Holy Spirit, but this is blasphemous enough without involving the Third Person of the Trinity.
Here's an example of the language: "In the beginning Kanye created the heaven and the earth.
The Book of Yeezus replaces every mention of God and Yeshua with Kanye and Yeezus.
The "Book of Yeezus" publishers are setting up West, a Grammy-winning rapper who offended many by kicking off his "Yeezus" album tour by inviting a Jesus impersonator on stage as God. Now, we see a "Kanye West" version of God's Word, which effectively removes any and all mention of God's name, hitting the market. Perhaps the most offensive translation so far is the Queen James Bible, known as the Gay Bible, which argues that "homosexuality was first mentioned in the Bible in 1946 in the Revised Standard Version" and "anti-LGBT Bible interpretations commonly cite only eight verses in the Bible that they interpret to mean homosexuality is a sin." The New American Bible also made headlines in 2011 for how it referred to the Virgin Mary. The New International Version came under fire in 2011 for using gender-neutral language. There's no lack of controversial Bible translations. Perversion Rising: ‘Book of Yeezus’ Replaces God With Rap Star Kanye Westĩ:30AM EDT Jennifer LeClaire There's a new "Bible" called the Book of Yeezus, named after Kanye West.
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