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Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. There are three sources of errors in conveying biblical meaning:
- lack of precision in the original language, such as terms underdeveloped to convey new concepts of Christianity
- lack of precision in modern language
- translation bias in converting the original language to the modern one.
Of these three sources of errors, the last introduces the largest error, and the biggest component of that error is liberal bias. Large reductions in this error can be attained simply by retranslating the KJV into modern English.
Wait, it gets better! Here are examples of "liberal bias":
The earliest, most authentic manuscripts lack this verse set forth at Luke 23:34:[7]
- Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."
Is this a liberal corruption of the original? This does not appear in any other Gospel, and the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing. This quotation is a favorite of liberals but should not appear in a conservative Bible.
Those liberals, always forgiving and such! Everyone knows that Jesus was a red-meat eatin' non-forgiver! And the red meat that he ate? That was the flesh of his enemies!
Here's another:
Socialistic terminology permeates English translations of the Bible, without justification. This improperly encourages the "social justice" movement among Christians.
For example, the conservative word "volunteer" is mentioned only once in the ESV, yet the socialistic word "comrade" is used three times, "laborer(s)" is used 13 times, "labored" 15 times, and "fellow" (as in "fellow worker") is used 55 times.
Of course, even "volunteering" may be too liberal, implying as it does that you might have an obligation, or even the desire, to help someone. I propose that conservatives change the word "volunteer" to "Don't oppress me you socialistic commie scum! John Galt forever!"
I can't really respond better than Rod Dreher:
the insane hubris of this really staggers the mind. These right-wing ideologues know better than the early church councils that canonized Scripture? They really think it's wise to force the word of God to conform to a 21st-century American idea of what constitutes conservatism? These jokers don't worship God. They worship ideology.
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