cydewaze
Refugee
Sick of liberal bias in your scripture? Fear not, because the Republican Bible is on its way. (read quickly, as the site in question tends to delete things that get a lot of negative attention)
OK, I'll admit that very few people are less religious than me, but I have to think that re-writing the bible to suit your political agenda must be all sorts of blasphemous. Changing words is one thing (they talk about changing certain words to more modern ones that cast a more positive light on conservatism and free market principals), but I was reading an article by the site's founder, and he was talking about deleting entire passages because he found them to not be right-wing friendly enough.
I mean seriously, wtf?
Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. There are three sources of errors in conveying biblical meaning are, in increasing amount:
* lack of precision in the original language, such as terms underdeveloped to convey new concepts introduced by Christ
* lack of precision in modern language
* translation bias in converting the original language to the modern one.
Experts in ancient languages are helpful in reducing the first type of error above, which is a vanishing source of error as scholarship advances understanding. English language linguists are helpful in reducing the second type of error, which also decreases due to an increasing vocabulary. But the third -- and largest -- source of translation error requires conservative principles to reduce and eliminate.
OK, I'll admit that very few people are less religious than me, but I have to think that re-writing the bible to suit your political agenda must be all sorts of blasphemous. Changing words is one thing (they talk about changing certain words to more modern ones that cast a more positive light on conservatism and free market principals), but I was reading an article by the site's founder, and he was talking about deleting entire passages because he found them to not be right-wing friendly enough.
I mean seriously, wtf?