:-D MILLENNIALS REJOICE! New emoji Bible translation is coming!

'What's amazing about emojis, and what's made them so successful, is that they're language-agnostic.'

In an attempt to make the Bible more interactive and entertaining to millennials, the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible has been translated with help from popular emoticons.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to The Memo, the new Bible, marked as "Scripture for millennials," will be available on iTunes May 29.

The authors of the new translation, described only by a smiley emoticon wearing sunglasses, hope the new Bible will draw in a younger audience and make them interested in reading Scripture.

"What's amazing about emojis, and what's made them so successful, is that they're language-agnostic - they allow you to convey an idea to anyone, regardless of what language they speak," the creators said, adding: "A major goal of this whole process was to take a book that I think is very non-approachable to lay readers and try to make it more approachable by removing a lot of its density."

Critics, of course, worry over what it means to removing anything from the Bible at all, but the author simply responded: "I've received a lot of tweets, some very nice some very, not nice. But it's all worth the goal of making the Bible a little more approachable, to inject some levity, and to get people to look at it, with no particular agenda beyond that.

"The Bible has a lot of old language, there's a lot of nuance involved in translating it - a lot of the time, you need to think beyond 1-to-1 fit. There's a lot of trial and error, and a lot of rereading."

Initially, the creators launched an emoji translator to get an idea of how the KJV could be visualized.

"You start with emojis that are really common - for instance, the earth emoji can mean earth, world, or planet. Eventually I created an actual translator program with a list of 80 different emoji icons, and 200 corresponding words. In addition: I build in some common shorthand - and so that 'and' became &, and 'first' became 1st."

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