Here Comes the Emoji Bible!

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Thursday, November 20, 2014

A photographer based in California has sought to translate the Holy Bible into quite possibly the newest language known to mankind: emoticons.

Kamran Kastle wants the Good Book, which has been translated into thousands of languages over the generations, to be available in emoticon form, also known as "Emojis."

"Kamran also volunteers his time at a charity that teaches filmmaking to underprivileged schoolchildren - Los Angeles Film Society (losangelesfilmsociety.org). After administering a Movie Screening of 'Ben-Hur' (1959) a good number of the inner city students sitting before him expressed never having read the Bible," reads a Kickstarter crowd-funding page that explains his reasoning for the emoticon Bible.

"Naturally, he asked 'How come'? One 16-year-old girl responded, 'If I can't read it on my IPhone, I don't read it.' Kamran asked, 'If I translated the Bible into Emoticons, would you read it?' With a curious smile upon her face, the teenager said, 'Yes!' Thus, the inspiration to translate the oldest book into the newest language - Emoticons - was immaculately conceived."

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