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That Darn Bible! It's Just So Liberal!
As a liberal Christian, I've always cringed when the ultra-right selectively used Bible verses to advance their agenda while completely ignoring others that condemned their actions. Apparently, the ultra-right felt bad about that as well, so they're now rewriting the Bible to make it more conservative.
According to the organizers, some of their stated goals include (cut and pasted directly from their site):
Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias
Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms as they develop defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer"; similarly, updating words which have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle".
Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning
Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story
For the GLBT community, I can only imagine that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah will be rewritten to emphasize that, yes, they were destroyed only because all the men were gay, and that Leviticus 18:22 will be printed in big, black 20-point type while all the other Levitical prohibitions that are not observed today will be in 1-point type.
According to the organizers, some of their stated goals include (cut and pasted directly from their site):
Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias
Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms as they develop defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer"; similarly, updating words which have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle".
Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning
Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story
For the GLBT community, I can only imagine that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah will be rewritten to emphasize that, yes, they were destroyed only because all the men were gay, and that Leviticus 18:22 will be printed in big, black 20-point type while all the other Levitical prohibitions that are not observed today will be in 1-point type.