“Reality has a well known liberal bias” says comedian Stephen Colbert as he parodies ultra conservative pundits; evidently, the Bible has the same ‘problem’.
If interpreting scripture becomes problematic, quit fighting over interpretation and just change the scripture. At least that’s what Andrew Schlafly advocates through the Conservative Bible Project, a cornerstone of his more global Conservapedia project. Andrew is the son of Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative activist and Eagle Forum founder.
Andrew Schlafly complains that most English translations of the Bible contain far too much “liberal bias”. Bias like Jesus prayer from the cross, (Luke 23:34):
- Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
Is this a corruption of the original, perhaps promoted by liberals without regard to its authenticity? This does not appear in any other Gospel, and the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing. This quotation is a favorite of liberals, although it does not appear in the earliest and best manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke. It should not appear in a conservative Bible, because in point of fact Jesus might never had said it at all.
Forgiveness is so liberal, so unChristian, isn’t it? Continue reading Rewriting the Bible…. Conservative Style