Was King James an atheist?

Answer 1

No. He really liked being head of the Church of English. He was gay, however.

Answer 2

shortgal,
That would be really odd if he was, wouldn't it? After all, he had the Great Bible, and a few others that were kicking around at the time.

Now, according to the book entitled:

God's Secretaries - The Making of the King James Bible
by Adam Nicolson

On page 7 we have this revelation:
James retreated from the brutality and anarchy. He became chronically vulnerable to the allure of beautiful, elegant, rather Frenchified men. He loved hunting, excessively, and escape from the realities, at one point killing every deer in the royal park at Falkland in Fife, which had to be restocked from England. It as been calculated that about half his waking life on the hunting field. And he became immensly intellectual, speaking 'Greek before breakfast, Latin before Scots', composing stiff Renaissance poetry, full of clotted emotionality, translating the Psalms, capable from site of turning any passage of the Bible from Latin to French and then from French to English.

According the this book, James was so very well versed in not only Chirstianity, bit would also debate with the clergy of the Presbyterians from his home Scotland, and the clergy of the Anglican Church. He also had continued a 20 pound a year fine for those that did not attend church.

"Was King James an atheist?"
No.

Answer 3

Yes he was an atheist , But he realized that without religion he stood to lose most of the power invested in him by the church.
He also realized two things. That with religion he could control his serfs, and there the known world. That the christian faithful could no longer beleive in the old testament. So King James sent out into the known world 1500 scholars(of his choice and who would only re[port as per his instructioins of course) to rewrite the christian bible.
You will find this in the front of old KIng James versions of the bible.

Answer 4

King James I preferred young boys to adult women. He was a flaming homosexual.
The very people who use the King James Bible today would be the first ones to throw such a deviant out of the congregations.
The depravity of King James I didn't end with sodomy. James enjoyed killing animals. He called it "hunting." Once he killed an animal, he would literally roll about in its blood. Some believe that he practiced bestiality while the animal lay dying.
James was a sadist as well as a sodomite: he enjoyed torturing people.
While King of Scotland in 1591, he personally supervised the torture of poor wretches caught up in the witchcraft trials of Scotland.
James ascended the English throne in 1603. He wasted no time in ordering a new edition of the Bible in order to deny the common people the marginal notes they so valued in the Geneva Bible.

First edition of King James 1611

Answer 5

Yes he was...the reason for his authorization of a Bible in his name was to gather people on his side politically...
but in the back ground at that time the Catholic Church was well on its way of their Bible translation, The Catholic Douay version.
But the King James Version of the Bible was out there before the Douay version was in the hands of people.
Interesting...there are many mistakes and misleading words the copyists made in the King James Version of the Bible, I wonder why?...that's another story.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter, for the Bible is about God's Word, not King James.

Answer 7

Are you stupid? This is the stupidest question I seen here in the Yahoo world. Have you ever heard of the KING JAMES BIBLE?
He did however re-write some of the Bible to meet his views, and influence his people.

Answer 8

I know for a fact that he was highly Wiccaphobic (fear of Witches and Witchcraft). That whole "Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live." phrase was his doing. The original passage is "Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live." And Witches and poisoners are two different things. YES they are.

Answer 9

Wouldn't be surprised. Most rich enjoy heaven right here on Earth and it's to their advantage if the rest of us are willing to wait for ours.

Answer 10

not at all he was wanting a bible for the people to read he could not trabslate it but trusted his advisers the original was translated from latin so likely to be floored more than those taken streat from the hebrew and greek

Answer 11

No he was a Protestant although his Mother was Catholic--he was taken away from her at an early age and raised in England.