Just reading the title, you might think this would make sense given how much some conservatives love Bible quoting. But just in case you needed a reminder that anything the far right does these days seems to make no sense, this is it. Here’s a link to the article I read on Huffington Post that brought my attention to this: The Conservative Bible Project.
The group behind this project feels that the Bible has too much of a liberal bias. So, the liberal passages need to be taken out and replaced with ideas about the free market, mention of government needs to be removed, and old wording needs to be replaced with modern conservative buzzwords. Excuse me? Isn’t the far right conservative movement based on the idea that the Bible should be taken literally? Yet here they are, changing the book they believe is the literal word of God to suit their personal political agenda.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the Bible should be taken literally. However, the group of people changing it, up until this point in time, believed it should be. Furthermore, I guarantee you when they finish their editing project, they’ll insist their version is the word of God, even though it will have obviously been written by people with a political agenda.
Basically, you believe in literalism or you don’t. Make up your minds. If you believe in literalism, you don’t get to edit out the parts that support liberal arguments just because we can quote verse as well as you can. If you don’t believe in literalism, you don’t get to quote the Bible as your only source in making an argument, and really shouldn’t be using it as a basis for policy in the first place. Of course, that shouldn’t be done anyway (remember separation of church and state?), but I’ll ignore that point for this argument.
So, in conclusion, far right conservatives claim the Bible, the foundation of their belief structure, has a liberal bias. Perhaps now that they’ve seen the light, we’ll see them changing their beliefs and joining those of us in the center and on the left looking for health care reform, helping the poor, and ending unjustifiable wars. More realistically, they’ll just decide to edit the book their belief system is supposedly based on until it matches their beliefs word for word. Too bad they’ll miss the irony.
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