The brain, it hurts......
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patgundSeems some people are worried over nasty liberal bias in the Bible. So to combat the idea that Jesus might not have been a Republican, we now have the
Conservative Bible Project
(Bold face mine)
"There are several striking advantages to a conservative approach to translating the Bible online:
participants learn enormously from the process
liberal bias - and lack of authenticity - become easier to recognize and address
by translating online, this utilizes the growing online resources that improve accuracy
supported by conservative principles, the project can be bolder in uprooting and excluding liberal distortions
the project can adapt quickly to future threats from liberals to biblical integrity
access is free and immediate to the growing internet audience, for their benefit
the ensuing debate would flesh out -- and stop -- the infiltration of churches by liberals pretending to be Christian, much as a vote by legislators exposes the liberals
this would bring the Bible to a new audience of political types, for their benefit; Bible courses in college Politics Departments would be welcome
this would debunk the pervasive and hurtful myth that Jesus would be a political liberal today"
There's also such gems as:
"Socialistic terminology permeates English translations of the Bible, without justification. This improperly encourages the "social justice" movement among Christians."
And the guidelines for this?
(Bold face mine)
"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
3) Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level
4) 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".
5) Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as "gamble" rather than "cast lots"; using modern political terms, such as "register" rather than "enroll" for the census
6) Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.
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
9) Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels
10) Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities; prefer concise, consistent use of the word "Lord" rather than "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" or "Lord God."
So basically they want to pare down the Bible to remove anything that could be Doubleplus NonRight ThoughtCrime, right???
Why do I get the feeling that they never read Matthew 5:18 ??
Conservative Bible Project
(Bold face mine)
"There are several striking advantages to a conservative approach to translating the Bible online:
participants learn enormously from the process
liberal bias - and lack of authenticity - become easier to recognize and address
by translating online, this utilizes the growing online resources that improve accuracy
supported by conservative principles, the project can be bolder in uprooting and excluding liberal distortions
the project can adapt quickly to future threats from liberals to biblical integrity
access is free and immediate to the growing internet audience, for their benefit
the ensuing debate would flesh out -- and stop -- the infiltration of churches by liberals pretending to be Christian, much as a vote by legislators exposes the liberals
this would bring the Bible to a new audience of political types, for their benefit; Bible courses in college Politics Departments would be welcome
this would debunk the pervasive and hurtful myth that Jesus would be a political liberal today"
There's also such gems as:
"Socialistic terminology permeates English translations of the Bible, without justification. This improperly encourages the "social justice" movement among Christians."
And the guidelines for this?
(Bold face mine)
"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
3) Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level
4) 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".
5) Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as "gamble" rather than "cast lots"; using modern political terms, such as "register" rather than "enroll" for the census
6) Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.
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
9) Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels
10) Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities; prefer concise, consistent use of the word "Lord" rather than "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" or "Lord God."
So basically they want to pare down the Bible to remove anything that could be Doubleplus NonRight ThoughtCrime, right???
Why do I get the feeling that they never read Matthew 5:18 ??
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Date: 2009-10-06 12:03 am (UTC)...
wibble.
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Date: 2009-10-06 12:59 am (UTC)Dumbass Monolinguists can't read no Hebrew nohow. (mutter) (mutter)
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Date: 2009-10-06 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-08 06:03 pm (UTC)LMAO! Yeah, that sounds about right to me. I have the misfortune to have a sibling who actually buys this crap, so it's good for my sanity to see someone bludgeon it to death with rational thought. Thank you for that. :)