TURBO HERESY
The False Bible? No.
// turbobible.no
An offline, keyboard-driven scripture reader for people who'd rather not leave their terminal — and who'd rather say NO to the glossy False Bible at turbo.bible. Vim keybindings, instant scrying, three dark scriptures, zero telemetry.
// search the whole canon, jump to the verse, read it in context.
// real capture — verse cursor, cross-reference sidebar, John 3:16 in KJV.
Smitingly fast.
Written in Rust. Type a phrase, get every match across all three scriptures in under a heartbeat. No "Did you mean…" No "top results from the web." No tracking pixels. Just verses.
Vim keybindings, all the way down.
hjkl, /, gg, n, : — they all work. Your muscle memory transfers. Your wrists rejoice.
Three dark scriptures.
Milton's Paradise Lost, Crowley's Liber AL vel Legis, and the hand-written Unholy Writ — all embedded in the binary, all public domain or CC0. Press t to switch tongues; the cursor stays put.
Compare panes, side by side.
Ctrl-W v splits the reader so you can set Milton against Crowley against your own profane marginalia — each pane its own scripture, position, and cursor.
Offline. No telemetry. No accounts.
Your reading stays between you and the page. The app works on a plane, in a cave, in a fallout shelter, on a network with no internet.
Bookmarks, visual selection, clipboard.
Press b to bookmark a verse, v/V to select a range, y to copy verse + reference. Quotes show up in your notes already attributed.
Just scripture, in a window that looks the same in 2026 as it would have in 1992.
Web Bibles want your engagement metrics. Phone apps want your attention. Both want your data. A terminal app wants none of that — it just wants to show you the text. Turbo Heresy is fast because nothing is in the way. It's distraction-free because the terminal is. And it's permanent: the text doesn't update, the layout doesn't shift, the company doesn't pivot. The Word was good enough for parchment; it's good enough for VT100.
Three commands. No prayer required.
Install
One line. No dependencies. No Node. No Python. No virtual environment called eden.
Have Rust? cargo install --git https://github.com/fridtjon/turbo-heresy turbo-heresy builds it straight from the repo — the installer above does exactly this.
Run
Opens to the TURBO HERESY splash with a filterable book picker. Enter opens a book; your last reading position is restored on next launch.
Read
Press / to search. Press gg to jump anywhere. Press F1 for the keymap. Press q to quit, like Lot leaving Sodom.
Q.Which scriptures are included?
Three, all embedded in the binary. Milton's Paradise Lost (1667 — the default; Satan's opening monologue greets you on launch), Crowley's Liber AL vel Legis (1904), and the hand-written Unholy Writ. Public domain or CC0 — nothing in copyright, so LaVey's Satanic Bible stays out for the obvious reason. Since all three ship inside the binary, it's fully offline from the first launch — no download step.
Q.Can I add my own scripture?
Yes. turbo-heresy import yourrite.json … builds a SQLite
database from a JSON of books / chapters / verses and installs it
alongside the three — no rebuild. The bundled texts are built exactly
this way (see data/heresy/build_heresy.py). Bring your own
grimoire.
Q.Why a TUI? Is this a joke?
Both. It's a parody — a satanic reskin that says NO to the glossy False Bible at turbo.bible — and a genuinely fast, offline, vim-driven reader underneath. The terminal is where the faithful already live, the Turbo Vision aesthetic is genuinely pleasant, and rendering Paradise Lost in black-and-crimson is its own dark reward. If we wanted to put scripture in a JavaScript framework, the fallen angels would weep.
Q.Is this affiliated with turbo.bible?
No. Emphatically: .no. The holy edition is over there; this is the schism that says no to it. Turbo Heresy has no position on the Trinity, predestination, or whether the antichrist will be a JavaScript framework — it renders the text you ask for and gets out of the way.
Ready when you are._
// ~55 MB download, eleven translations, every cross-reference. tested on three monotheisms.
Free. MIT/Apache-2.0. Older than computers. Source on GitHub · Documentation
Every project has a genealogy. This one's reads git log --author=God — which returns nothing, humbling or heretical depending on your tradition. Turbo Heresy is kept by one steward: not a theologian, no seminary, strong opinions about hjkl. The translations are public domain. The code is MIT. The text is older than computers, and needed no changelog.