{"id":2888,"date":"2009-10-18T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/because-the-bible-isnt-conservative-enough\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T19:21:00","slug":"because-the-bible-isnt-conservative-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/because-the-bible-isnt-conservative-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Because the Bible Isn’t Conservative Enough…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get ready for conservative Bible – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

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So we may soon have ourselves a conservative Bible. Besides Fox News, I mean.<\/p>\n

This new Bible is from Conservapedia, a website that bills itself as a conservative alternative to the perceived liberal bias of Wikipedia, the user-edited online reference.<\/p>\n

You may judge Conservapedia’s own bias by reading its definition of liberal: “someone who rejects logical and biblical standards, often for self-centered reasons. There are no coherent liberal standards; often a liberal is merely someone who craves attention, and who uses many words to say nothing.” <\/p>\n

For the record, Wikipedia defines conservative as a word referring “to various political and social philosophies that support tradition and the status quo, or that call for a return to the values and society of an earlier age. . . .”<\/p>\n

Now, having protected unwary Americans from — ahem — Wikipedia’s<\/i> bias, Conservapedia founder Andrew Schlafly (son of Phyllis) tackles perceived bias in the Good Book. He proposes to correct the Bible by creating a new translation based upon 10 principles, including: concision (as opposed to “liberal wordiness”); an emphasis on “free market parables” and the exclusion of “liberal passages” he says were inserted into the original text.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Get ready for conservative Bible – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It would appear the nut hasn\u2019t fallen far from the tree in the case of Andy Schlafly and his mommy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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