I still remember the time when I was a young man growing up in Huntington, West Virginia — that's west — attending Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and hearing the newly-appointed pastor from just plain Virginia say, "Anyone in here who begins reading that new revised standard version of the Bible will go to hell and should resign this church immediately!" Since he and most folks were raised on the old King James edition, he could not understand the scholarship and accuracy that the RSV provided, especially since it differed significantly in language and translation. As soon as I could, I bought my own copy, put it down next to the old KJV and began to read and compare.