Oh my God, Allah, Supreme Deity, et al.
Scott Schafly wants to cleanse the "liberal bias" from the Bible?
Cleanse?
That sounds suspiciously like someone who wants to make changes to support his or her belief system. I can think of a number of leaders past and present who "cleanse" history, books and traditions to make them conform to their personal beliefs.
As with journalism, I guess guys like Scott never let a good translation get in the way of making it say and mean what he want.
Anyone who has taken more than a couple of years of Latin can attest to making Cicero and Ovid translations come out differently from the accepted translations.
The only thing more insane than the belief that the Bible is the unaltered, unerring word of the Christian God is that Scott Schafly is the man to translate the earliest copies of the Bible (no originals exist) to the "correct" version of the Bible.
What gall! What chutzpah!!
What a load of crap.
This is yet another attempt by the radical religious right to make sure their religion and now their Bible conforms to their notions of what thye want their religion to be.
Just as the early followers of Paul decided their beliefs were right and all others were wrong, now we have a 21st Century version of Paul's followers hell bent on forcing the beliefs about Christianity and the Bible to conform to their political views.
What always amuses me is that Schafly and those like refuse to follow one of the basic tenants of their faith and a lesson from their Bible - Tolerance.
Why are they so adamant that their beliefs, their faith, their God and now their Bible are the "one and only true way"?
It doesn't take much to realize that they are doing this, not out of a sense of enlightment but out of a need to control, a need to be right and a need to be self righteous.
Maybe part of the Tribulation is that we all have to suffer through the insufferable rantings and ravings of Schafly and his quest to "cleanse" the Bible.
Perhaps he should spent a little more following Christ's teachings instead of trying to force everyone else to believe like he does.
Then again, the cynic comes out in me and I must wonder if this is all a ploy to get more cash into the political organization that is Scott's mom, noted right wing political and religious zealot Phyllis Schafly.
Use religion for personal and political gain?
Who'd have thunk it?
Oh..... Scott Schafly
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Well Steve, you certainly picked a good topic to start a blog and a fire! "The only thing more insane than the belief that the Bible is the unaltered, unerring word of the Christian God" will be the hottest topic in town. People seem to believe that their particular version of the Bible is the correct one and that, as you say, it is the absolute word of the Christian God, forgetting that most of the Old Testament is actually a Jewish "Bible". They also forget that Christ was not a Christian. Perhaps the best term to use in describing Christ's role is the term "Rabbi". The apostles were "Christians" in the sense that they were followers of Christ's teachings, but they were practicing Jews. It was not until after uncircumcised gentiles were allowed "in" did we begin to see what we today think of as "Christians".
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