A new conservative Bible?

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To be brief, they are openly admitting they they are taking God’s word and translating it in a way that suits their political ideology, how does that make them any better than what they claim they are fighting against? does this make him any better then when Liberals in China reworked the bible and the catechism to support communism or when Thomas Jefferson reworked the gospels to support Deism? I am glad Andy Schlafly can tell the difference between a theological conservative and a political conservative, but that only bolsters his culpability. I myself hold views that are theologically conservative and often overlap within political conservatism, but the places in which the two break from each other I choose theological conservatism among the two. I honestly think the idea of this translation, (or any translation for that matter) which espouses support for a political platform over objective truth is dangerous and ill advised.
 
A Wikipedia Bible Translation? How can it possibly go wrong? :rolleyes: 😉
 
Are political conservatives the same thing as theological conservatives? I doubt it.

Is there really any good proof that something like the Sermon on the Mount doesn’t belong in the Bible? Maybe Jesus really said “Blessed are the rich.” Maybe Jesus didn’t drive the moneychangers from the temple, but due to liberal bias over the centuries “poor” was turned into “moneychangers.”

Maybe, just maybe, the words “comrade” and “laborer” are a better translation than the “conservative friendly” word volunteer is (whatever that means :rolleyes:)

I agree with Joe, I can’t see how this could possibly go wrong.

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A special Bible translation for American SoCons? :rolleyes: Yeah, I’ll pass.

Don’t get me wrong; I tend to vote conservative. But I cannot stand “massaged” Bible translations that twist words to fit an agenda. It doesn’t matter if the agenda is political correctness or something that I might personally agree with more. To me, it’s dishonest and it stinks.
 
I guess we dont have to worry about it. since this is not going to be a Catholic Bible anyway.
 
Most of the “religious right” conservative Protestants seem to prefer the King James Version, while most traditional Catholics go toward the Douay-Rheims. So, we already have two “conservative” Bibles, both translated well before modern liberalism took shape.

Maybe they should see what Ronald Reagan had to say: av1611.org/kjv/reagan.html (a King James Only site).

This is re-inventing the wheel at best, and, to translate the Bible based upon contemporary political conservatism, is blasphemy at worst. While it is nearly impossible for one to be a theological conservative and a political liberal (as the liberal “Catholics” in Congress prove), there are many theological liberals, even a few atheists, who are politically conservative.

I am both a political and theological conservative, by the way.
 
i just wonder where this is going. a new Bible? can they simple re envent a new Bible?
 
ibkc said:
Sure they can. The Jehovah’s Witnesses did it, why not socons?
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this is a desecration of the Word of God. has man really gone that far is to assume authority over SS and do whatever they want? i dont see this happening with other sacred scriptures of other religions.

Has the CC lost her authority on earth? she can no longer stop the nonsense that is going on wiht the Word of God? great job Martin Luther? what has he done?
 
I think is just horrible. Changing a bible for there own agenda? Look at the New World Translation! yuck!
 
The Bible is a long stable text, and simply says what it says in any language.
 
bpbasilphx said:
The Bible is a long stable text, and simply says what it says in any language.
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This would be true if languages were just an interchangeable character set with perfectly corresponding grammar, syntax, and semantics.

But they aren’t. Translation of sacred scripture must take into account both the literal meaning of words (semantics) and their implied meaning, context, idiom, rarity etc.

Without these, we would not properly understand the significance of Christ’s tri-fold “do you love me?” to Peter, since we would not see his use of “agape” and “philos”.
 
It seems that something of this nature may have happened before. The very idea of a Bible to reflect a right-wing political agenda is troubling at best. The thought of it makes me cringe.
 
malphono said:
It seems that something of this nature may have happened before. The very idea of a Bible to reflect a right-wing political agenda is troubling at best. The thought of it makes me cringe.
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thanks for sharing this. amazing.
 
Toribus said:
This would be true if languages were just an interchangeable character set with perfectly corresponding grammar, syntax, and semantics.

But they aren’t. Translation of sacred scripture must take into account both the literal meaning of words (semantics) and their implied meaning, context, idiom, rarity etc.

Without these, we would not properly understand the significance of Christ’s tri-fold “do you love me?” to Peter, since we would not see his use of “agape” and “philos”.
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agreed.
 
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