Comments on: Right-wing Christian nuts want the Bible stripped of socialist and feminist ideas

By: mr fun

mr fun — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:34:18 +0000

The Bible has been tampered with so many times throughout its long life, I don’t think it matters much anymore. Nobody knows what the “original” version was like. Or even if such a thing ever existed.
Read Bart Ehrman’s books and learn!!!!!!!!!!

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:56:50 +0000

Conservapedia is, indeed a joke, but do other readers of this blog ever visit FreeThoughtPedia? http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Main_Page

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:56:17 +0000

Conservapedia is, indeed a joke, but do other readers of this blog ever visit FreeThoughPedia? http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Main_Page

By: Meee

Meee — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:12:17 +0000

Conservapedia is insane. I say this as someone who has watched them for a while now (over a year, dunno exactly how long; it's like a trainwreck, you can't look away).

It's not a wiki, even though it puports to be. The head guy (creator and head admin, Andrew Schlafly (yes son of Phyllis Schlafly)) commands and people obey. If they don't obey, they get banned, for 5 years. Bannable offences include talking about points in an article instead of just making them (Andy thinks that talking too much is a sign of liberalness) and spelling hell with a little h (rather than H), another sign of liberalness.

It's very, very important to point out that Andrew Schlafly is not a christian, nor he is a conservative. Andrew Schlafly is Andrew Schlafly. He claims that he is a christian and a conservative, but his definition for christian and conservative is literally "what I am". If you disagree with him, even slightly, you're not a christian, and certainly not a conservative. Anything not conservative is "liberal" and therefore to be hated.

He also thinks that *everything* has been corrupted by liberals, from history to mathematics. For example, he thinks that the claim that Leif Erickson discovered America before Christopher Columbus is a liberal lie to reduce Christianity's standing in the world. He thinks that Einstein's theory of relativity is the same thing as moral relativity (simply because they both have the word relativity and he is literally too stupid to figure out the difference, and refuses to change his mind). He will make up statistics on the spot (sometimes just as a general ballpark figure but mostly as a fact), and then quote himself as a reliable source for those statistics at a later date.

I kinda went off topic here but Schlafly is a fascinating character. Anyway, my main point is, this bible will be neither christian nor conservative. It will be The Bible According to Andrew Schlafly, and reading it will be like peering into the abyss of madness. If he ever finishes it. Which he won't. He tried before and gave up.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:01:41 +0000

The Koran of course adds: "then kill the people you do like but who beleive in a slightly different version of islam to you. Then blame 'the west' for it"

By: Angela_K

Angela_K — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:04:21 +0000

Buffy, that is a perfect summary of the bible.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:51:51 +0000

How about they just whittle it down into one line that will encompass their general mindset:

Kill everybody you don't like and take all their money.

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:37:04 +0000

Not only that, Brian, but there's the whole vexed question of which of the dozens of books which have been CLAIMED to be inspired are actually included in the Bible. Some of them, especially from the New Testament era, contradict much of what is accepted as orthodox Christian doctrine! (The Koran's no better either. Years ago I thought that at least Mohammed had sat down and written a coherent body of work. How wrong I was!!)

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:32:04 +0000

My earlier comment has disappeared already, but here's another: "The wise man built his house upon the rock, but the foolish man built his house upon Northern Rock"!

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:31:47 +0000

My earlier comment has disappeared already, but here's another: "The wise man built his house upon the rock, but the foolish man bult his house upon Northern Rock"!