Right-Wing Group Seeks Help Rewriting the Bible Because It's Not Conservative Enough

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http://www.alternet.org/belief/right-wing-group-seeks-help-rewriting-bible-because-its-not-conservative-enough



Liberal bias in the media pales in comparison to what you’ll 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 Schlafly’s 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.

Don’t 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-life—all of which are conspicuously missing from those socialist-inspired Bibles we’ve 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!

[annabanana]

1. I'm sure Jesus will speak personally to each and every

re-writer.

[safeinOhio]

2. What holy hell would they raise if

we were to rewrite Atlas Shrugged?

[Quantess]

11. That's not a bad idea!

Someone should take a stab at that.

[Berlum]

3. "I thought that had already been done a couple of dozen times." - Jezus Keeryst

[CJCRANE]

4. I thought "Atlas Shrugged" was the Conservative Bible

so there's no need to rewrite the original one.

[WinkyDink]

5. I'm pretty sure King James didn't hire Liberals.

[Ilsa]

6. This is scary shit. Or,

possibly the beginning of the end for Christianity.

[bemildred]

7. And THAT is how new religions are made. nt

[mockmonkey]

8. Hopefully this time...

they can get rid of that Uppity Jesus and his socialist views.

[BuelahWitch]

10. No matter how hard they try...

...they're not going to fit Reagan into it. He wasn't quite that old.