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by p-e-w 1146 days ago
> It's been regularly altered for almost 2000 years without making it clear to the reader/viewer how and why.

... in an era where scientific rigor, proper editorial practices, literary science, and indeed the entire humanities in the modern sense didn't exist. That's a laughable comparison.

If anyone tried to publish an "edited" Bible like that today, they would get publicly crucified by scholars.