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::[[Ecclesiastes]], in the 1611 translation, is one of the glories of English literature (I'm told it's pretty good in the original Hebrew, too). The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many as [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] (to quote that distinguished authority Anon, the trouble with Hamlet is it's so full of clichées). In ''[[The God Delusion]]'' I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.

::[[Ecclesiastes]], in the 1611 translation, is one of the glories of English literature (I'm told it's pretty good in the original Hebrew, too). The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many as [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] (to quote that distinguished authority Anon, the trouble with Hamlet is it's so full of clichées). In ''[[The God Delusion]]'' I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.

::A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/19/richard-dawkins-king-james-bible]

::A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian."[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/19/richard-dawkins-king-james-bible]

:And the Bible is the world's best selling book of all time and continues to be so.~~~~

:And the Bible is the world's best selling book of all time and continues to be so.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:16, 18 March 2020 (EDT)