Trivial Stupid Blog comment of the day! "Rush Limbaugh is something of a socialist."

[mojave_wolf]

On grrm's blog, the one about Rush Limbaugh trying to buy a pro football team, wherein he wonders how the players will feel having a pretty obvious racist for an owner (he is equally obviously many other kinds of a bigot, misogynist homophobe etc,, but I'm guessin ghte comment was directed here because at least women and out gays are unlikely to be

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[redcandle17]

I regret that I don't have Internet time to look at those comments. Sounds hilarious. [snarky portion of comment removed for future private conversation]

[mojave_wolf]

see also link in new updated post (or from comments below).

And hurry up and send me the snarky e-mail. Wants.

[caliantrias]

I can top that.

Are you ready?

The BIBLE has a LIBERAL Bias;

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/building-more-conservative-bible
http://daemonaquila.livejournal.com/176288.html

[mojave_wolf]

I am appalled.

The main post has been updated to include this.

[mojave_wolf]

Don_Fitch has a good comment to this below, that he accidentally posted to the main post.

[mojave_wolf]

Oh, see my comments to don_fitch as to the bible having an actual liberal bias, but as to the feminist bias of translators, I wonder if these dipshits even know (aside from whatever familiarity they have w/the DaVinci Code, which is so NOT my source for this, tho it did draw on some common elements) there was an early feminist version of Christianity which has at least some support in the canon-ized scriptures that Mary Magdalene was "the disciple most loved by Jesus" and after he died she was essentially ousted and her followers stomped out by Peter and his followers in a power struggle. There's a few fragments left of the Gospel of Mary, and several other Gospels which make mention of this. Fascinating study, if you can find a copy of the The Complete Gospels anywhere, which has *everything* that can be found from the early days

[la_marquise_de_]

Even I, safely on the other side of an ocean from Mr Limbaugh, know that the last thing he is is a socialist.

[mojave_wolf]

The evil hypocrite (Rush) isn't for abolishing the Federal Income Tax, therefore, socialist, as far as I can tell from the "I'm a Ron Paul Libertarian" person's comment. Also, in favor of war other than defense of own country, therefore not a true conservative (not sure where the conservatism=isolationism comes from), and not speaking out about abolishing the federal reserve, therefore not a true conservative. I'm . . . confuzzled.

Some people apparently have very specific and very narrow definitions of what it means to be "conservative", and incredibly broad to the point of meaningless definitions of what it means to be "socialist" , w/neither conforming to the general usage of these words.

[la_marquise_de_]

A very right wing American I met once complained to me vociferously about the 'Communist' government of Spain. This threw me for a while until I recalled that the party in power in Spain right now are the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. I'd forgotten that tendency of some conservative types to label anything they don't like (and/or that has a word like 'socialist' in it) as communist. Then I laughed a lot and observed that they are in fact a little to the left of the UK Labour party.
Apparently the latter are communists, too. Sometimes I think you Americans are nearly as crazy as us Europeans...

[mojave_wolf]

By most accounts, y'all surpass us in charming eccentricity.

But from my -never-having-been-to-Europe-which-is-a-damn-shame perspective, we got you lot all beat to hell for the batshit crazy.

[don_fitch]

The idea of re-writing a religion's ancient Scriptures in order to make them conform with some modern politico-socio-economic Ideology does have a certain fascination, for me. But then, my tastes and interests are a bit weird

[don_fitch]

Oops! My comment above should have been posted in response to the ct. by Caliantris, re the proposed Conservative Bible.

[mojave_wolf]

In theory, I could see this being interesting, as sort of a science fictional idea. In actual fact, I find it both horrifying and hilarious.

Horrifying both as to the likely future brain-washing purposes the "new & improved" conservative bible will be put to, and because the once-upon-a-time Christian part of me is, well, horrified (and outraged!) at the lack of deference shown to something that these people, at least, should regard as sacred.

Hilarious because, well, what is their to do but laugh, reading things like The committee in charge of updating the bestselling version, the NIV, is dominated by professors and higher-educated participants who can be expected to be liberal and feminist in outlook. ? Cause all liberals are feminists, and all higher educated people are liberals. And also because hey, guys n gals n both/neithers (oops, I'm being inclusive, and this is baaaaaad), good luck with that new, more accurate translation provided by people lacking higher education

[don_fitch]

I'm kinda surprised to see this proposal in conservapedia, rather than in The Onion, but... umm... it looks to me as though the intent is not to achieve a more accurate translation, at all -- it's to create a version that's suitably (& strongly) biased towards their (non-religious) ideology