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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight-Wing Group Seeks Help Rewriting the Bible Because It's Not Conservative Enough
http://www.alternet.org/belief/right-wing-group-seeks-help-rewriting-bible-because-its-not-conservative-enoughLiberal bias in the media pales in comparison to what youll find in your standard-issue Bibles, according to Conservapedia.com, a kind of Wikipedia for the religious right. The King James Bible, not to mention more recent translations like the New International Version (NIV), are veritable primers of progressive agitprop, complains Andy Schlafly, the founder of Conservapedia.com. (His mother, Phyllis, is an activist best known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment.)
But not to worry. Andy Schlaflys group is on the case, and they have invited you to pitch in. Well, maybe not you, exactly, but the "best of the public, whose assistance is solicited in proposing new wording for left-leaning Bible verses.
Dont know Aramaic, Hebrew or ancient Greek? Not a problem. What they are looking for is not exactly egghead scholarship, but a knack for using words they've read in the Wall Street Journal. They have a list of promising candidates on their website words like capitalism, work ethic, death penalty, anticompetitive, elitism, productivity, privatize, pro-lifeall of which are conspicuously missing from those socialist-inspired Bibles weve been reading lately.
In the several years since their translation project was inaugurated, all of the New Testament and several books of the Old have been thoroughly revised. But lots still remains to be done. If you've got a soft spot for Leviticus, the Book of Amos, Lamentations or Numbers, they are all still available for rewrite, so get cracking!
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Right-Wing Group Seeks Help Rewriting the Bible Because It's Not Conservative Enough (Original Post)
xchrom
Dec 2013
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)1. I'm sure Jesus will speak personally to each and every
re-writer.
safeinOhio
(32,719 posts)2. What holy hell would they raise if
we were to rewrite Atlas Shrugged?
Quantess
(27,630 posts)11. That's not a bad idea!
Someone should take a stab at that.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)3. "I thought that had already been done a couple of dozen times." - Jezus Keeryst
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)4. I thought "Atlas Shrugged" was the Conservative Bible
so there's no need to rewrite the original one.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)5. I'm pretty sure King James didn't hire Liberals.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)6. This is scary shit. Or,
possibly the beginning of the end for Christianity.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)7. And THAT is how new religions are made. nt
mockmonkey
(2,829 posts)8. Hopefully this time...
they can get rid of that Uppity Jesus and his socialist views.
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BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)10. No matter how hard they try...
...they're not going to fit Reagan into it. He wasn't quite that old.