New Bible is too liberal for fundies.

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New Bible is too liberal for fundies.

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Re: New Bible is too liberal for fundies.

Post by JimC » Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:51 am

Quite a difficult trick, to make Bronze Age delusions palatable to the me generation...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:54 am

JimC wrote:Quite a difficult trick, to make Bronze Age delusions palatable to the me generation...
Uh, Jim, the "me generation" was in the '80s.

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Post by Tero » Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:56 am

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
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Post by Tero » Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:04 pm

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

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Post by klr » Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:41 am

Just wait until the Lolcat Bible is completed ... :whistle:
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Post by Feck » Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:51 am

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 .
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:53 am

Feck wrote: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. :mod:
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Post by klr » Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:55 am

Let's see them "water down" (say) Sodom and Gomorrah, or Teh Flud. :hehe:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:00 pm

klr wrote:Let's see them "water down" (say) Sodom and Gomorrah, or Teh Flud. :hehe:
Or one genocidal command after another being issued "in the name of God".

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Post by klr » Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:01 pm

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.
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Post by Geoff » Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:23 pm

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.
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Post by Feck » Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:24 pm

Geoff wrote: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.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Apr 24, 2011 12:24 pm

Geoff wrote: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."
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Post by klr » Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:00 pm

Feck wrote:
Geoff wrote: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.
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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. :tea:
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