Conservatives work to rewrite Bible

(noon. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

You knew it was coming when the response to the GOP became, “What would Jesus do?”

It’s well known that Jesus was a liberal socialist, wanting to help and feed the poor, taking away from the “tax collectors” of the church, and sympathizing with a prostitute.

Well, the Conservative Bible Project believes that the Bible is too “liberal”.

Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. There are three sources of errors in conveying biblical meaning:

   * lack of precision in the original language, such as terms underdeveloped to convey new concepts of Christianity

   * lack of precision in modern language

   * translation bias in converting the original language to the modern one.

Of these three sources of errors, the last introduces the largest error, and the biggest component of that error is liberal bias. Large reductions in this error can be attained simply by retranslating the KJV into modern English.[1]

Here we go… through the fog…

I remember reading the Bible.  I remember Jesus’ Sermon On the Mount.  I remember how he sheltered the adulterous, saying, “let he who hath not sinned cast the first stone“.  He healed the sick.  He helped the poor.  He railed against the church and tax collectors.  Jesus was a socialist liberal.

And it is because of this fact that right-wing conservatives want the Bible changed.

The Religious-Right always pushed religion and the Bible, and when they teamed up with the GOP, it created a conundrum, one that is only now coming to light.

How can you, Mr. Foley, go after underage male paiges, and still live by the Bible?

How can you, Mr. Vitter, have an affair and live by the Bilbe?

This is the hypocrisy that has come home to root.  The solution?  Rewrite the Bible so none of this is a factor.

Instead of Jesus helping the poor, it can now read that Jesus went to the poor and told them they must spend their last copper piece for insurance that was junk.

Instead of Jesus intervening for the adulterous, it can now read that Jesus would be willing to intervene… but… only if she works as a prostitute for Dusty Foggo, Vitter, Sanford, and the rest of the adulterous Republicans.

Instead of Jesus railing against the church and tax collectors, Jesus can become the “Hebrew Repo Man”, going around as a tax collector to the poor and sick, taking everything they have left.

And, to get into heaven?  No, confession, absolution, and faith are no longer required.  Now, you must contribute $1 million dollars a year, or equivalent of, at which point you will be part of “God’s Rangers”.

What a Bible that would be!