This one’s getting hot in the blogosphere, especially the leftosphere, which lives for well-deserved fun at “conservative” expense. [Especially since they cannot affirmatively defend the president's and the leftist congressional leadership's communitarian agenda on its own merits.]
Still, the lefties have cause for derision.
Conservapedia.com is a lame and intellectually underpowered effort to counter the left-leaning bias of Wikipedia, which is a “People’s encyclopedia.” Unfortunately for the truth, lefties seem far more motivated to contribute their “truth” to the internet, as if truth can be democratized, a matter of consensus and shouting loudest.
As opposed to you know, truth.
Anyway to cut back to the conservapedists, they’ve started a
“Conservative Bible Project.”
Arrrgh. Did I, as a self-described conservative, sign up for this?
They have some good points, like opposing the contemporary current towards monkeying with Biblical language toward “gender-neutrality.”
However, they’ve also taken aim at perhaps the most beloved and beautiful story in the New Testament, from John 8:
1Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
That’s the King James Version; the Catholic Douay-Rheims is right in that zone too.
Although Roman Catholics don’t give a damn, since the pericope de adultera ["story of the adulteress"] was declared canonical by the Council of Trent [1563], we got modern day fundies actually rejecting a passage of the Bible based on Biblical scholarship, its case being somewhat persuasive, since there were early versions of the Gospel of John that lacked this passage!
[Moving directly from Jn 7 to Jn 8 omitting the pericope de adultera!]
Anywayz, who says religion is boring? We got fundamentalists erasing parts of the Bible, and the Magisterium telling them to chill.
What a world. I’m not sure conservatives should take this one lying down. Otherwise we give this one up to conservatives like Andrew Sullivan, and as one of those other self-described conservatives, I get cast as picking up a rock to stone the adulteress.
I’m not good with that. Not good atall.