Ooooo, here's a fun one. Any conservative Christians on here care to comment on this latest idea from the religious right? That is, the rewrite of the bible to fit modern conservative standards? “So we may soon have ourselves a conservative Bible. Besides Fox News, I mean. This new Bible is from Conservapedia, a Web site that bills itself as a conservative alternative to the perceived liberal bias of Wikipedia, the user-edited online reference. You may judge Conservapedia's own bias by reading its definition of liberal: "someone who rejects logical and biblical standards, often for self-centered reasons. There are no coherent liberal standards; often a liberal is merely someone who craves attention, and who uses many words to say nothing." For the record, Wikipedia defines conservative as a word referring "to various political and social philosophies that support tradition and the status quo, or that call for a return to the values and society of an earlier age. ..." Now, having protected unwary Americans from -- ahem -- Wikipedia's bias, Conservapedia founder Andrew Schlafly (son of Phyllis) tackles perceived bias in the Good Book. He proposes to correct the Bible by creating a new translation based upon 10 principles, including: concision (as opposed to "liberal wordiness"); an emphasis on "free market parables" and the exclusion of "liberal passages" he says were inserted into the original text. One such would be the well-known story of the adulterous woman brought before Christ by a crowd eager to see her punished……”
Originally posted by reducetension: This new Bible is from Conservapedia, a Web site that bills itself as a conservative alternative to the perceived liberal bias of Wikipedia, the user-edited online reference.
I heard about this one. I've seen it suggested that this is proof that Conservapedia and its founders are the most extreme and extensive test of Poe's Law ever attempted, that the founders are actually liberals on a long-term deep undercover mission to plumb the depths of conservative extremism. The idea of self-proclaimed Biblical literalists editing the Bible itself is just mind-boggling. Especially since there's no real indication of them trying to go back to the original source material - they simply want to edit it to fit their beliefs, and then claim that's the original meaning.
