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If this article is correct, we are about to have a very new translation of the Christian Bible. It won't be the first time it has been rewritten to suit a political view, and it probably won't be the last.
Conservapedia is a very minor player on the right wing. Even if they do manage to create a new translation of the Bible I highly doubt it would gain widespread acceptance.
It's not really about whether it gains widespread acceptance or not. it isn't difficult to go through the posts on this board and find literally thousands of statements by fundamentalists that "The Bible says so-and-so and it is infallible and the inspired word of God and yadayadayada...". Since Francis became Pope there has been a lot of hemming and hawing in some corners about some of the things he has said about Christianity and money, and a lot of conservatives are none too happy with him. Rush Limbaugh called him a Marxist, and Sarah Palin said he didn't know much about Jesus and His teachings.
The translation that Conservapedia has undertaken is merely one of hundreds of different ones that have been done over a long period of time to reflect the particular beliefs of the patron underwriting the bill. It makes no pretense at accuracy or of reexamining the documents in their "original" languages; All that is being done is a hack job to make it suit a particular set of prejudices. It would not surprise me a bit if a lot of text was changed and/or ended up on the cutting room floor at the Council of Nicea. It is a fact that a lot of books proposed for the compilation didn't make the cut.
I was really hoping to hear from some of the conservatives on the board and get their opinions as to the new translation.
I can tell you that the European Christians I know vehemently (and often disgustedly) shake their heads at the self-serving "interpretation" of the bible that their American counterparts have come up with.
I can tell you that the European Christians I know vehemently (and often disgustedly) shake their heads at the self-serving "interpretation" of the bible that their American counterparts have come up with.
What makes them right? The Bible is an interpretation as it is.
That's an old thing, they have been trying to do it for years. Conservapedia is about as wingnut as it gets, though I have seen it cited on C-D by nut jobs for things like claims that gravity and black holes are a liberal conspiracy. Reading, and/or citing it, is usually a pretty significant indicator of a mental illness.
The rewrite has been pretty well condemned across the board. Especially since they are translating it without anyone who speaks the original language. Some wingnuts do like the hack job they are doing since it takes out parts about helping the poor, and being nice to others, since they care less about following the religion and more about thumping it at people.
There is nothing religious about it, it is done for purely political reasons. The site owner hated having the dissonance between their hateful silly views, and the actual Bible, after being raised in a pretty fundamentalist religious house hold. Instead of following the Bible he just decided to rewrite it to fit his "conservative" views.
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