Politics.be - Amerikaans conservatieve ketters heffen achterlijkheid naar nieuw niveau

Blijkbaar is dit niets nieuws, hoewel het recentelijk wel weer wat meer aandacht kreeg, maar er bestaat zoiets als het Conservative Bible Project. Degenen onder jullie die bekend zijn met de schertsvertoning Conservapedia zullen al wel kunnen raden waar het over gaat.

Blijkbaar is in de Bijbel, de KJV en NIV in het specifiek, een hoop progressieve prietpraat geslopen, en een stel conservatieve ketters in de VS voelt zich geroepen het even te zuiveren. Al dat pacifistisch gedoe, dat 'bemin Uw vijand', dat 'voor een rijke is het moeilijk het koninkrijk der hemelen binnen te gaan', past allemaal niet zo binnen deoorlogszuchtige, pro-doodstraf, kapitalistische levensvisies van de Amerikaanse 'God-fearing conservative'.

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

Amerikaanse conservativen hebben er niets conservatievers op gevonden dan de Bijbel te veranderen. Ja, lees die zin even opnieuw. Erg conservatief he?

Misschien hadden ze even achteraan een kijkje moeten nemen. Openbaring 22: 18 Ik verklaar aan ieder die de profetieën van dit boek hoort: als iemand er iets aan toevoegt, zal God hem de plagen toevoegen die in dit boek beschreven staan. 19 En als iemand iets afneemt van de woorden van deze profetie, zal God hem zijn deel afnemen van de levensboom en van de heilige stad, die in dit boek beschreven zijn.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/right...rvative-enough

Citaat:

December 20, 2013 |

Liberal bias in the media pales in comparison to what you’ll find in your standard-issue Bibles, according to Conservapedia.com, a kind of Wikipedia for the religious right. The King James Bible, not to mention more recent translations like the New International Version (NIV), are veritable primers of progressive agitprop, complains Andy Schlafly, the founder of Conservapedia.com. (His mother, Phyllis, is an activist best known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment.)

But not to worry. Andy Schlafly’s group is on the case, and they have invited you to pitch in. Well, maybe not you, exactly, but the "best of the public,” whose assistance is solicited in proposing new wording for left-leaning Bible verses.

Don’t know Aramaic, Hebrew or ancient Greek? Not a problem. What they are looking for is not exactly egghead scholarship, but a knack for using words they've read in the Wall Street Journal. They have a list of promising candidates on their website— words like capitalism, work ethic, death penalty, anticompetitive, elitism, productivity, privatize, pro-life—all of which are conspicuously missing from those socialist-inspired Bibles we’ve been reading lately.

In the several years since their translation project was inaugurated, all of the New Testament and several books of the Old have been thoroughly revised. But lots still remains to be done. If you've got a soft spot for Leviticus, the Book of Amos, Lamentations or Numbers, they are all still available for rewrite, so get cracking!

To give a sense of how to go about your own retranslation, here are some examples of changes the editors have already made.

Take that story where the mob surrounds a woman accused of adultery and gets ready to stone her, but Jesus intervenes and says, “He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone" (John 7:53-8:11). It might have been a later addition that wasn’t in the original Gospels, according to some right-thinking, or rather right-leaning scholars. So the editors have excised this bleeding-heart favorite from the Good Book, and they've also removed Jesus’ words on the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."

“The simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing,” Schlafly points out, proving that, “Jesus might never had said it at all.”

Another thing Jesus might never have said at all is, “Blessed are the meek.” Change that one to, “Blessed are the God-fearing,” the translation’s editors advise, which is far less touchy-feely than the King James version.

Where Jesus teaches that, "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:24) our mentors at Conservapedia recommend that we scratch the word “rich” and replace it with either "fully fed and entertained" or, if you prefer, "idle miser," which have none of the Occupy Wall Street-ish sour grapes of the better-known translation.

When Jesus greets his disciples with the blessing, “Peace be with you” (John 20, 26), the editors cleverly change the wording to, "Peace of mind be with you," so that nobody gets the wrong idea and thinks Jesus was some kind of lilly-livered pacifist.

Likewise where Jesus says, “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but to save it” (John 3, 17), they change “world” to “mankind,” so it is clear the Christian savior is not advocating environmentalism here. Hey, you can’t be too careful!

Finally, when Jesus admonishes hypocrites to, “Cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye,” the conservative Bible replaces the word “hypocrite” with "deceiver," since hypocrite is often “misused politically against Christians.” Good point!