The Gospel according to wingnuts

When I first saw this story, I thought it was just a parody. But nope! It's all too real.

Andy Schlafly is known as the intellectually flatulent doofus behind Conservapedia - which is like Wikipedia except that it was designed to be a retelling of The World According To Conservatives.

Now Schlafly is expanding his conservative funhouse world by trying to rewrite the Bible as well.

Schlafly has founded something called the Conservative Bible Project, which is working on a new version of the Bible that would eliminate "liberal" text. He complains that widely read translations of the Bible such as the King James Version and the New International Version (one of the most common English-language translations) contain too many socialist ideas.

One of Schlafly's big complaints about these Bible translations: They use the word 'laborer', which Schlafly says is socialist.

Among other changes Schlafly would make: While the King James Version says, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God," Schlafly would change "rich man" to "a man who cares only for money." Schlafly groans that the King James translation is an attack against the affluent.

Schlafly also declares that the biblical passage that says, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," will be removed from his version because it was a "liberal addition."

Biblical scholars are highly critical of Andy Schlafly's efforts.

Schlafly's attention to economic terms is yet another example of how the right-wing brain trust tries to hide behind religion to keep the working class down. It's much like Star Parker's idiotic claim that progressive taxation violates the commandment that says, "Thou shalt not covet."

What's potentially dangerous is that dominionists expect the entire citizenry to be required to live by their warped interpretations of religious texts. And I'll be bipped if I'm going to live by their economic policies just because they misuse the Bible in an attempt to back these policies up.

(Source: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091018/NEWS06/910180341/New+Conservative+Bible+will+eliminate++liberal++text)