For those who think I exaggerate the problem

[valarltd]

Conservatizing the Bible

Apparently the Bible is too liberal for the fine people at Conservapedia. Check their rewrite guidelines:

As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[1]
Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias

Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" language, and other modern emasculation of Christianity
...
Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning

Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story



Free Market parables. From a man who practically preached communism. From a religious movement that started as "Cast your lot among us and let us all have one purse." From a book of Law that decrees all debts forgiven every 7 years and everything back to the original owner every 49 years.

Wanna bet the adultress story comes under "liberal insert" while the Benjaminite's Concubine falls under "proper marital relations and hospitality?"

Comments

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's not my holy book, but 80% of Americans who believe it. And people like this, who want to rewrite it to reflect their own prejudices and political agendas scare me.

Of course, King James did the same.

[montgomeryscott.livejournal.com]

This is why I believe the world is going to fall apart not with a bang, but with a whimper. Every single time this happens, each time this type of influence gets a bit stronger, the world loses a bit more of itself.

It scares the living daylights out of me.