The Random Bible is a bible that was created to contain 787,137 random words. The same number as the King James Bible. The words are drawn from a list of over 100,000 words. Most people have a vocabulary of less than 20,000 words. So enjoy these words and find inspiration from reading aloud in a bombastic voice.
The Random Bible is an experimental algorithmic text, exploring randomness in writing. Random word association, where two randomly chosen words are associated, is a well known creative problem solving technique. What is unusual about the Random Bible is that the list of words used to generate the text is so large (over 100,000 words). Many of these words will be unfamiliar since the majority of individuals have a much more limited vocabulary (around 20,000) and the Bible itself makes use of just 12,000 unique words. The Random Bible can therefore be used as a source of inspiration, much in the same way as Christians may use a randomly chosen passage from the Bible for prayer or meditation. The Random Bible also serves as a secular alternative to the Bible in terms of taking oaths and affirmations. It can serve as a Bible for atheists. The Random Bible also exists as a Bible parody or satire given that the most popular text, the KJV, contains many arcane words that are no longer in everyday use.
An extract from the Random Bible:
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