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Apparently some folks over at Conservapedia have decided that the Bible isn't conservative enough for them, so they're rewriting it. Their upset? Apparently there's no Bible translation that fits their ten guidelines, including:

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
[...]
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


That last one really gets me. Oh, those godless, liberal 4th century Romans, throwing their modern ideas into the Bible! Curse them for the horrible, liberal-minded modernists that they were!

Have I mentioned how religious people frequently terrify me with their complete lack of fear of blasphemy? Dudes, if I believed in your god, I would be afraid to stand within a hundred miles of you. Because I'm pretty sure that, taking from literary precedent, most gods really don't like it when you change what they say to suit your purposes. How can people who purport to believe in a god believe that they can fuck around with his/her/its words without literally quaking in their fucking boots? Oh, wait - I forgot that people like this are so fucking arrogant that they can't conceive of the possibility that they wouldn't be right. Seriously - as a pagan, I feared to speak a single ill word against a god or power. Where do these people get the balls to change their own god's words without fear of retribution, if that's what they really think the Bible is? Where the hell do they get off? And can I help them remove it, preferably by the judicious use of a grapefruit spoon applied to delicate and personal areas?

Fuck that. I almost hope there is a god. Because if there is, these jackasses are in a lot more trouble than I, basic plain old quiet non-believer, am. The words "special hell" come to mind.

Date: 2009-10-10 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] becksbooks.livejournal.com
Wow. Just...wow. WTF is wrong with people?

I mean, I know the Bible has been translated upmteen times, with books added or removed, but this...this just takes the cake. They're not even trying to pretend that they had a message from God. It's ballsy to re-write a holy text just because you don't like it.

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