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valarltdConservatizing 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
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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?"
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?"
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Date: 2009-10-05 03:05 pm (UTC)The story of the adulteress in John 8 was pretty clearly a late addition to the text, but I always thought it was a conservative addition (after all, it takes two to commit adultery, and where was the male offender?).
And you're right, these same people probably relish the truly appalling story of the Levite's nameless and much-abused concubine and the near-destruction of the tribe of Benjamin in retaliation in Judges 19.
And the story of Jephthah's daughter in Judges 11 probably gives them a giggle!
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Date: 2009-10-05 03:20 pm (UTC)Actually, these people don't really know the more appalling stories. If they do, they like to gloss over them.
I was always a big fan of Hosea myself. "See Israel, God loves you so much, he's like a man married to a whore who takes care of her even when she has left him to live with her pimp."
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Date: 2009-10-05 03:33 pm (UTC)Hosea really lays it on the line, though I've always been really fond of Micah 6, as well, and especially 6:8 ("...what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?")