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Editing the Bible

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Forget Biblical literalism, a conservative group is editing the Bible to match their values and is using a Wiki to do so.

The Conservative Bible Project [1] is part of Conservapedia--a wikipedia for conservatives. Therefore anybody can contribute their proposed edits, being made to the King James Version of the Bible. I couldn't find many edits being made yet, but you can see their guidelines here [2].

This is a strange combination of using a technology that equalizes everyone's voices to create an intolerant translation of the Bible.

I just hope they keep this in mind from Augustine (via Karen Armstrong's recently released The Case for God [3]): "The exegete must not leave a text until he could make it 'establish the reign of charity.'"

As the Crunchy Con Rod Dherer says at beliefnet.com [4], "the insane hubris of this really staggers the mind."

Megan Sweas is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.

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Source URL: http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2009/10/editing-bible

Links:
[1] http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible
[2] http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307269183/uscath
[4] http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/10/conservatizing-the-bible.html
[5] http://www.uscatholic.org/authors/megan-sweas