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Old 10-06-2009, 07:38 AM
 
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As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[1]
Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias

Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning

Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story

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

Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities
Thus, a project has begun among members of Conservapedia to translate the Bible in accordance with these principles. The translated Bible can be found here.

Conservatizing the Bible - Crunchy Con (http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/10/conservatizing-the-bible.html - broken link)
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Old 10-06-2009, 08:00 AM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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Re-creating God in man's image.


"The earliest, most authentic manuscripts lack this verse set forth at Luke 23:34:[7]
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."
Is this a liberal corruption of the original? This does not appear in any other Gospel, and the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing. This quotation is a favorite of liberals but should not appear in a conservative Bible."

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

If we are to sling out passages that only appeared in one of the gospels, and which seemed contradictory, we would have to lose a lot. Evidently the real criterion is whether the Rightwing fund...sorry - "Conservatives" approve of it or not.

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Old 10-06-2009, 08:14 AM
 
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Evidently the real criterion is whether the Rightwing fund...sorry - "Conservatives" approve of it or not.
I'm at a loss to understand how one interprets God's word, either it's God's word or it ain't.
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Old 10-06-2009, 11:07 AM
 
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I'm at a loss to understand how one interprets God's word, either it's God's word or it ain't.
Most of the world thinks "it ain't".
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Old 10-07-2009, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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I'm at a loss to understand how one interprets God's word, either it's God's word or it ain't.
Exactly--which is why there shouldn't be any room for "interpretations."
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Old 10-07-2009, 07:42 AM
 
Location: Blankity-blank!
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I'm at a loss to understand how one interprets God's word, either it's God's word or it ain't.
Just another reason why religion in America is a capitalist sham.
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Old 10-07-2009, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Texas
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If I were a conservative, I'd be embarrassed by this. This is the sort of thing that makes you look like a joke.
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Old 10-07-2009, 07:59 AM
 
Location: 30-40°N 90-100°W
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If I were a conservative, I'd be embarrassed by this. This is the sort of thing that makes you look like a joke.
Conservapedia is kind of a joke. I was initially somewhat interested in it as Wikipedia is a bit biased on social issues, but I realized pretty quick that its "conservatism" is on the crankish side. At the time it included some weirdly intense hostility to vaccination and efforts to find kangaroos in the Bible.

I don't know if all conservatives need to embarrassed by every kook under our (more or less) flag. I'm sure the majority of the celebrities who signed that petition supporting Roman Polanski are liberals, but I'm also pretty sure most liberals have nothing to do with it. They either don't care or have an opposite view to that group. I wouldn't even be surprised if most entertainers either don't care or would be cool with Polanski going to jail.
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Old 10-07-2009, 08:18 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Frankly, I'm so disgusted with the false doctrine of a "correct" political component of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that this latest manifestation of foolishness leaves me speechless.

The level of ideological hubris needed to even presume to make the Word of God match your ideology is just breathtaking in it's hypocrisy.
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Old 10-07-2009, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Brussels, Belgium
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Perfect circular logic.

"My convictions are based solely on the Bible, which I interpret according to my convictions."
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