The word

"In the Beginning there was the Word. And the Word was good."
[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God]

There are only four instances of the word "religion" in the Bible. All four are from the New Testament, by the way. Hence, not mentioned before Christ.

Act 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Gal 1:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it;
Gal 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

The General Epistle of James 1 'Hearing and Doing the Word'
26 ¶ If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27  ¶ Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The written word

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. If you can raed tihs, psot it to yuor wlal. Olny 55% of plepoe can!

Does this work in languages other than english? And does this take into consideration typos (extra or missing letters?). Actually most ppl can still understand a sentence even if every word is misspelled, just by sounding right.

And did you know the most common mistype is teh instead of the?

ACCRDNG TO RSRCH AT R'DN'S UNVRST', IT DSN'T MTR W'T RDR THE LTRS IN A W'RD R, THE 'NL' 'MPRTNT THNG IS THT THE SNDS B N THE CRCT PLC. THS IS BCS THE H'MN MND DS NT RD 'V'RY LTR BY 'TSLF, BT THE WRD AS A WHL. F U CN RD THS, PST 'T TO UR WL. U R A GD TXTR.

This is how I see texting. Just use consonants and use the ' symbol to replace stressed vowels important to the structure of the word. It does take a couple of reads, depending on the character [no pun intended] of the sender. Someone sent me the Cambridge research quote, and I found it in my Jan 2010 blog entry. With today's apps, whole words can now be recognized by using just a few key strokes. So the recipient can see the correct words.

The Aughts

George Bush 43 as President and ending with Obama just starting. 9/11 began the War on Terrorism. Free trade and outsourcing, forclosures and credit crisis Leads to bail-outs, stimulus plan, and cash-for-klunkers.

Mad Cow disease, bird flu, and H1N1 become threats even as AIDS grows.
Katrina, Indonesian tsunami, and earthquakes in Kashmir and China, and a European heatwave were a few of the most destructive natural disasters.

We are now in the Attention Age with Broadband, WiFi, Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for news and information, commerce, and interpersonal communication.
Popular are HD and everything Digital. Flat screens and home entertainment. Ps2, Wii, WoW, and on-line gaming.
Hand-held and hands-free, GPS and G3. Smartphones, iPhone, to iPodTouch. Windows Me, XP, Vista and 7, and Mac OS X are released.
15 minutes of fame- where anyone can be on American Idol to Big Brother. TV commercials Mac vs PC, AT&T vs Verizon, Carl's vs McD- this used to be illegal, mentioning the other brand, but I think Pepsi taste test [vs Coke] started it all. Low cost plans, upgrade to this, 2 year contract, for new members only. Hundreds of channels, thousands of apps, free downloads for 99 cents each.
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