I’ve seen some argument from conservative Christians that the only proper English translation for the Bible is the King James version because that was written in “original” English (what we have now is some debased version of the language, apparently). Basically they don’t want to admit that anything, even languages, evolve, so they’ve decided that “English” only came about when Norman French was introduced to whatever they think was spoken in England before that, thereby - “poof” - creating “English” (never mind that this happened long before King James and is quite different from the language at that time). They want a text that’s modern enough to be readable but archaic enough that they can pretend they’re reading the original text, and there’s been enough linguistic drift that they can interpret things as they like (also, it’s the version they grew up on, and have invested all their time in cherrypicking).
I think of American conservative Christians as “Old Testament Christians” - although they’ve really rejected Christianity for their selective text version of the Old Testament, which better supports their worldview and prejudices. They love all the smiting, judgement, “eye for an eye,” God giving permission to wage war, rape and murder, racism (though they have to stretch things a bit), homophobia, subjugation of women, etc. of those older texts, but are deeply uncomfortable with the pacifism, communalism, lack of judgement, and well, love of the newer texts (to the point where those ideas get labeled “unChristian,” ironically).
