{"id":105,"date":"2009-10-07T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-10-07T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T09:37:00","slug":"supply-side-bible-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/supply-side-bible-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply-side Bible on the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t it enough that the extreme religious right has replaced the real Jesus with Supply-side Jesus to justify their dogma of fear, greed and intolerance?&#160; Apparently not.&#160; Next on their agenda is to rewrite the Bible to strip it of references of such horrid things as forgiveness and obligation to the poor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9.75pt; margin: 0in; color: black; font-family: arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/SupplysideBibleontheWay_1C93\/GOP_Bible.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOP_Bible\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"170\" alt=\"GOP_Bible\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/SupplysideBibleontheWay_1C93\/GOP_Bible_thumb.png\" width=\"184\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> &#8230;According to Conservapedia, there is no &quot;<strong>fully conservative translation<\/strong>&quot; which properly meets their guidelines, so the project is much needed. Among other things, they want to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.75pt; font-family: arial\">Better explain how certain parables actually <strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">promote free market ideology<\/font><\/strong>, because apparently the actual language of the Bible doesn&#8217;t do a very good job of that. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.75pt; font-family: arial\">Exclude certain, &quot;<strong>later-inserted liberal passages<\/strong>.&quot; Given that there is a great deal of dispute among Bible scholars over what was original language in the ancient texts and what wasn&#8217;t, it will be fascinating to see what passages make their list as &quot;later inserted.&quot; I have some guesses. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.75pt; font-family: arial\">Identify <strong>pro-liberal terms<\/strong> in existing translations such as &quot;government&quot; and just get rid of them. It&#8217;s great how you can solve these inconvenient problems so easily. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.75pt; font-family: arial\">Conversely, of course, identify conservative words and phrases that have been mysteriously omitted from existing translations, and figure out cool ways to stick them into the Bible stories.<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9.75pt; margin: 0in; color: black; font-family: arial\">Some of their examples are fun, too. When Jesus says, &quot;Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing,&quot; they are quite suspicious. That quote only appears once in the Bible, they say, plus it sounds way too liberal &#8211; it must be wrong. I guess they&#8217;ll just define that as &quot;later-inserted.&quot; And then there are certain words that just appear way too often, like laborer and labored &#8211; apparently, they will just get rid of\/re-translate stuff like that, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9.75pt; margin: 0in; color: black; font-family: arial\">Now there are no suggestions about what this new translation might do with all those inconvenient references to the poor &#8211; feeding them, housing them, justice for them, etc. There are several hundred of those, so you would have a lot of editing to do to get rid of all that, or make it more &quot;free market oriented.&quot; And if you just got rid of it entirely by ascribing it all to &quot;later insertions,&quot; you would have a noticeably thinner Bible. And all those references to peace-making, the rich having trouble getting into heaven, etc.- all that would have to go, too\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mike-lux\/editing-the-bible_b_311858.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The extreme right already bases much of their doctrinal error on poor translation in existing Bibles.&#160; For example, <em>logos<\/em> and <em>graphe<\/em>, two unrelated words in <em>koine<\/em>, are both translated \u2018word\u2019 in English.&#160; <em>Logos <\/em>refers to Jesus (and the Word became flesh), while <em>graphe<\/em> means writings, and is generally taken to refer to Scripture.&#160; Now what conservative Christianity has done is to interpret \u201cword\u201d as the Bible in all cases, thus mistakenly imputing all the attributes of God to a book.&#160; Now please don\u2019t think I\u2019m trying to push any faith at you at all.&#160; Your faith is your business.&#160; The religious right makes their faith my business only because they are trying to legislate cramming it down my throat.<\/p>\n<p>The Supply-side Bible should prove most entertaining.&#160; I guarantee that Supply-side Jesus will love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t it enough that the extreme religious right has replaced the real Jesus with Supply-side Jesus to justify their dogma of fear, greed and intolerance?&#160; Apparently not.&#160; Next on their agenda is to rewrite the Bible to strip it of references of such horrid things as forgiveness and obligation to the poor. &#8230;According to Conservapedia, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/supply-side-bible-on-the-way\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}