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From ChristianToday, a note on the release of the Poverty and Justice Bible (from the American Bible Society)
The headline, oddly, is "Americans more likely to credit Obama for verse on justice than Bible," which suggests a kind of conservative-Christian disdain for the supposed popular tendency to lionize Obama as a populist champion. The piece highlights a Harris Interactive survey that presented respondents with the quotation, "You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless," and asked its source. The answers given were Obama (16%), the Bible (13%), the Dalai Lama (9%), MLK (8%), Oprah (4%) and Bono (3%). (It's Proverbs 31.8f.) I have to wonder about methodology. I assume this was a multiple choice question, and without a list of choices I'm sure 95% of respondents would have answered "I don't know." The choices listed by the article only add up to 53%. Anyhow, it's interesting.
CaféPress merchandise emblazoned with "Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8"
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Browsable Greek New Testament
Handy resource for anyone who wants to browse the Greek NT online. It's quick, simple, and there seem to be some good references built in.
Book Burning (event announcement for Amazing Grace Baptist Church KJV in North Carolina, Halloween 2009)
They plan to burn, apparently, three classes of items: first, bibles that are not the KJV; second, music that is not Christian; and third, books by "heretics," mainly meaning Christians who espouse theological positions different from those of this church. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?vqeuf
Project to eliminate liberal language from the Bible - thestar.com
The Toronto Star actually interviewed Andrew Schlafly for this piece.
Under God: God's Liberal (or Conservative) Bias - David Waters
David Waters (a blogger for the WaPo's On Faith) mocks the Conservative Bible Project.
Conservative Bible - Conservapedia
I just discovered this. It's a wiki "translation" of the bible based on the notion of eradicating "liberal bias" from prior translations (particularly the NIV, I think). (It's not actually a translation in any way, since there is no effort made to look at the original texts. What it really seems to be is a paraphrase of the KJV, modernized and edited for conservative themes.) They are bothered by gender-neutral language primarily, but they also want to expunge "Later-Inserted Liberal Passages," "Express Free Market Parables," "Accept the Logic of Hell," and "Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms." I was looking over their version of Mark. The main "conservative" adjustments seem to be changing "Pharisees" into "Elitists" and "scribes" into "intellectuals." I kid you not. I guess this is "utilizing powerful conservative terms." The ten principles of a "fully conservative translation of the Bible" can be read on another wiki page, here http://j.mp/qxcWz .
The Gospels in Scouse
[Jn 1.1-4] Before God did owt else e ad summat er say. It wus is last werd. Only it come first. An it summed up is ole attitude to evrythink. Now dis werd wus wid God. Fact it was part'n parcil uv im. So at start uv evrythink an a long time fore man was akshully made, God's werd to men wus ready and waitin. Everythink there is wus made by this werd. E wus God's one and ony contractor for de ole Universe job. Nowt at all as ever got made sept through this d'partm'nt uv God ... wot we call is "werd". Now just becus dis werd is part uv God isself, all God's life is in im. An dis life is de light what shines on evrybody. Dis is de light wot evryody needs.
[Jn 1.14] So wot I've bin saying, like, is this. God's ole attitude to the werld became flesh. All wot God's got ter say about man became a man -- Real Man. An de Real Man l ived among us. We could see just exackly wot e was like. An e wus terrific! An you could see e wusn't juss on'y the truth about man. E wus also the truth about God.
Zondervan - Holy Bible: Stock Car Racing
Seen on the @religion_book Twitter stream. From the product description: "For fans of stock car racing, this Bible is a must-have. It features commentary and testimonies from some of racing’s most famous names, as well as full-color action photos of some of racing’s most famous faces."
Zondervan - Holy Bible: Stock Car Racing
Seen on the @religion_book Twitter stream. From the product description: "For fans of stock car racing, this Bible is a must-have. It features commentary and testimonies from some of racing’s most famous names, as well as full-color action photos of some of racing’s most famous faces."
Agog over Bush's comments on Gog and Magog - James A. Haught - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports
This article seems to have the best account I've seen yet of how the story broke -- first in a university publication in Lausanne in 2007 (in French), then in a couple of French opinion journals. Then the story was ignored. In 2009, a French journalist's memoir confirms the story, in the context of interview with Chirac. Then a few English-speaking outlets pick it up, but not many -- in fact, the Charleston Gazette appears to be the only mainstream U.S. outlet to mention it.
Un petit scoop sur Bush, Chirac, Dieu, Gog et Magog | Rue89
On Bush's supposed secret phone call to Chirac, asking him for his help in Iraq in wiping out "Gog and Magog."
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