Is the Bible too liberal?
"And you thought liberal bias was limited to the evil mainstream media," said Amy Sullivan in Time. The guys at Conservapedia (aka, "the trustworthy encyclopedia") have launched a project to re-translate the Bible, because, they say, "liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations." They want to "replace liberal words like 'labor'" with terms conservatives like better, and "explain the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning." This takes crazy to a whole new level.
One of the "most well-worn clichés in modern politics" is that conservatives are a bunch of "scary Christianists," said Paul Zummo in Southern Appeal (via First Things). But it's the Left that is trying to "recruit Jesus Christ to their cause," hoping to sell their positions on economic issues with their portrayal of "Jesus Christ, socialist superstar." But it's all a smokescreen, because they know they've run afoul of church teachings on matters such as abortion, euthanasia, and gay marriage.
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