Making the buybull safe to read?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passagesl

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner
First Posted: 10- 5-09 02:26 PM | Updated: 10- 5-09 03:38 PM

Lo and behold, the Bible has gotten too liberal, according to a group of conservatives. And it needs a little editing.

That's the inspiration behind the Conservative Bible Project, which seeks to take the text back to its supposed right-wing roots.

Yes, even scripture is not orthodox enough for the modern conservative. Not that it's the fault of the author(s), exactly. The group cites a few reasons why the Bible is too progressive: "Lack of precision in the original language ... lack of precision in modern language" and "translation bias in converting the original language to the modern one."

So how can the Bible be conservatized? The group has proposed a Wikipedia-like group editing project. Some of the ideas would only bring the translation closer to the original. But others would fundamentally change the text.

1. Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias

2. Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" language, and other modern emasculation of Christianity
3. Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level[3]
4. Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms as they develop;[4] defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer"; similarly, updating words which have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle".
5. Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as "gamble" rather than "cast lots";[5] using modern political terms, such as "register" rather than "enroll" for the census
6. Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.
7. Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning
8. Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story
9. Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels
10. Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities; prefer concise, consistent use of the word "Lord" rather than "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" or "Lord God."

Among the words to be eliminated: "government." A conservative columnist at Beliefnet described the effort as "just crazy ... like what you'd get if you crossed the Jesus Seminar with the College Republican chapter at a rural institution of Bible learnin'."

[Feck]

Oh dear still if they ever get around to printing it will someone steal me a copy .

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh dear still if they ever get around to printing it will someone steal me a copy .

No, that would be a sin.

[Drewish]

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. He did this through a long process of emergence and fusion occurring on the cores of stars, as we the Christians CLEARLY predicted in our holy text (see it's written right here.)"

[Pappa]

Epic lol.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm starting to get the feeling it's October 15, 1859, again.

[Rum]

This is a very subtle pisstake I am sure.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This is a very subtle pisstake I am sure.

The Huffington Post is liberal, but they're not into The Onion-type satire.

[devogue]

Accept the Logic of Hell

Poe.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

And lo Jeebus did come to the temple and did see the merchants and money-lenders there and he did throw out the nanny-state rules and restrictions on their free-market rights and did say, "Thou doest well, fellows, thy bottom lines do glorify the Lard!"

[Feck]

And later He sold the 'loaves and Fish ' chain of snack bars and moved into the lucrative markets of raising the dead and bulk wine production?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And later He sold the 'loaves and Fish ' chain of snack bars and moved into the lucrative markets of raising the dead and bulk wine production?

Didn't Arthur Treacher buy that franchise?

[Sisifo]

"There is only one God: Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck is His Prophet..."

[Яasputin]

The only thing you need in order to make the bible safe to read is to slap this sticker on the cover of it.

[AshtonBlack]

Unreal. An attempt to change history?

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter