New Bible is too liberal for fundies.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42215497/ns/us_news-life/

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[JimC]

Quite a difficult trick, to make Bronze Age delusions palatable to the me generation...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Quite a difficult trick, to make Bronze Age delusions palatable to the me generation...

Uh, Jim, the "me generation" was in the '80s.

[Tero]

What am I supposed to do with Catholics? We have megachurches*, Lutherans and Catholics out here in the suburbs. My daughter used to play volleyball with the Catholics. There was no Jewish or atheist volleyball available.

*Joyce Myers less than 5 miles from me
http://www.joycemeyer.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qyw6kbWIEE

She seems to be some kind of life coach for the masses

[Tero]

1986 letter on a Catholic Atheist, or whatever he was
http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2d ... utler.html

[klr]

Just wait until the Lolcat Bible is completed ...

[Feck]

The bible is mostly a lie, it's interpretation is a fucking joke . It's moral lessons are dripping in blood and hypocrisy and that's just Genesis and Exodus ....

replacing 'mankind' with 'people' so it's lessons aren't sexist is so fucking stupid .

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The bible is mostly a lie, it's interpretation is a fucking joke . It's moral lessons are dripping in blood and hypocrisy and that's just Genesis and Exodus ....

replacing 'mankind' with 'people' so it's lessons aren't sexist is so fucking stupid .

...and without it we would not have a basis for a moral life and would be sinful, evil, atheistic people.

[klr]

Let's see them "water down" (say) Sodom and Gomorrah, or Teh Flud.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Let's see them "water down" (say) Sodom and Gomorrah, or Teh Flud.

Or one genocidal command after another being issued "in the name of God".

"Religions. The more you know, the more they blow."

[klr]

The last verse of Psalm 137 ("Rivers of Babylon") is still rather violent:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se ... ersion=NIV

Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.

[Geoff]

I don't see what the big deal is with this new one, there are already about 50 (or more) different versions in existence.

I do like this bit, though:

"We have to be very careful about how we go about this, because we don't want to change the word of God easily or quickly," said Douglas J. Moo, chairman of the New International Version translation committee.

[Feck]

I don't see what the big deal is with this new one, there are already about 50 (or more) different versions in existence.

I do like this bit, though:

"We have to be very careful about how we go about this, because we don't want to change the word of God easily or quickly," said Douglas J. Moo, chairman of the New International Version translation committee.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I don't see what the big deal is with this new one, there are already about 50 (or more) different versions in existence.

I do like this bit, though:

"We have to be very careful about how we go about this, because we don't want to change the word of God easily or quickly," said Douglas J. Moo, chairman of the New International Version translation committee.

"we just want to shave off some of the corners so we can shove it down people's throats easier. Otherwise they're going to stop giving us money to keep working on this collection of fairy tales and horror stories."

[klr]

I don't see what the big deal is with this new one, there are already about 50 (or more) different versions in existence.

I do like this bit, though:

"We have to be very careful about how we go about this, because we don't want to change the word of God easily or quickly," said Douglas J. Moo, chairman of the New International Version translation committee.

Here are a few helpful suggestions:

Get rid of all the "X begat Y" crap in the OT.
Condense the four gospels into one.
Get rid of at least 30 other books - no-one bothers with them anyway.