You wouldn't exactly call this article circumspect!

[A netfriend]

The New English Bible, as T.S. Eliot wrote when it appeared, "astonishes in its combination of the vulgar, the trivial and the pedantic." The King James Bible, by contrast, astonishes in its combination of the majestic, the singular and the exalting. That it has been replaced in most English-speaking Christian congregations by "modern" translations of surpassing mediocrity is one of the outrages of the age, and one that says all too much about the age itself.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30069-2003May8.html