[karajorma]

Conservapedia, that great bastion of Poe's Law has finally decided that they've had enough of accusing Hollywood, the media and every source they can find of Liberal bias and decided to go after the biggest selling example of Liberal bias in existance, the Bible.

Yep apparently the King James Version displays a large amount of Liberal Bias and thus needs to be rewritten.

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project


Excuse me while I fall about laughing.

[Liberator]

Old....and not that funny.... 

Try harder k?

[karajorma]

Not funny? It's freaking hilarious.

[Ford Prefect]

Seconded; pretty funny even by that site's standards.

Also, was this recently linked in a news article or something? Because my friend just posted the same thing on Facebook.

[The E]

Boing Boing picked up on it a few days ago.

[General Battuta]

Is this stuff they write real?

I thought the Bible was the Word of God. Apparently only the parts you like are. The rest was inserted by Liberals.

[The E]

Hard to tell on Conservapedia.

[karajorma]

That's why I linked to Poe's Law.

[tinfoil]

Hahahaha, "Pro Liberal terms such as Government", that one needs some rethinking. Seriously though, this is right up there with; GAY!!!!!> http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/~gauntlet/eg/eg2/20041125/spongebob-web.jpg

[Kosh]

Not funny? It's freaking hilarious.

ROFL.

[Nuclear1]

Words cannot express my hate for Conservapedia.  I mean, it's funny, until you realize that there are people who actually take that stuff seriously.

[Mars]

I'm not sure it's possible to take that article seriously. . .

I mean, does anybody really!?! O_O

The socialism section?

[Kosh]

Words cannot express my hate for Conservapedia.  I mean, it's funny, until you realize that there are people who actually take that stuff seriously.

IMO that makes it even more funny, in a dark sort of way. How I weep for our future.

[Nuclear1]

It's pure brainwashing. A bunch of adults having homeschooled kids write articles about how liberalism is evil, and anything not written in the Bible is treason and heresy. It's really disgusting.

[Mars]

Those who are wise will not be effectively brainwashed. Even if religious fundamentalism reaches critical mass, the dark ages didn't erase all the knowledge of the Roman Empire.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, because the Islamic states saved that knowledge. And look what happened to their scientific golden age!

[Akalabeth Angel]

Is this stuff they write real?

I thought the Bible was the Word of God. Apparently only the parts you like are. The rest was inserted by Liberals.

God didn't speak english.

[General Battuta]

I know that. The matters I'm referring to aren't translation-related.

[Black Wolf]

Yeah, because the Islamic states saved that knowledge. And look what happened to their scientific golden age!

They got owned by the Mongols instead, lucky for us.

As for the original topic, Liberator is wrong, this is indeed very funny.

[NGTM-1R]

Old....

Yes and no. First there was the "Bible Retranslation Project", but then Teh Assfly (Andy Schafly, owner of Conservapedia, as referred to by his nemesis RationalWiki) realized that would actually require work and that he's not capable of reading Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic. So it fell by the wayside.

This new one, the Conservative Bible Project, doesn't even have the minimal legitimacy of an effort to translate differently, it's simply altering the words they don't like with no regard to original text or translated text.

This would be not terribly funny in many other contexts, the textual record can be very fragile (cf. this), except that they're boldfaced about what they're doing and their utter lack of authority in the subject, and thus hopefully anyone with enough neurons to form a synapse will ignore it.