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Just look at the bibles that say “God the parent” instead of “God the father” and you’ll see what I mean.

According to my rabbi, who is a scholar, the original term is not "God our Heavenly Father" but translates more accurately into "Our motherly father" and the patriarchal translations were so done to convey political/patriarchal feelings at the time. The original shows the duality of God, the encompassing nature in as much as I can remember of his sermon.

Scholars in liturgical Hebrew did not write the King James. That was a translation from the Vulgate Latin, which was a translation from classical Latin, which was a translation from Greek, which was a translation from Aramaic, which was a translation from ancient liturgical Hebrew which is a language without vowels or punctuation. Basically it was a game of telephone where enormous errors entered in over the two thousand years.

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"There was a reading from the gospel, and the pronoun used to refer to a child in this translation was 'it'," he said. "So this translation of the gospel referred to a child as an 'it,' a thing. And that is liberal, it's offensive and it's incorrect."

Why is referring to a child of unspecified gender as "it" liberal? I would have thought that was simply grammatically correct.

I guess it just shows the extremes that people will go to, to turn anything into a left vs right problem.

And true conservative should make few versions of bible. In my humble oppinion they need PG-13, and R at least. Right needs to act to prevent our innocent children from being exposed to graphic violence and sexual acts. I dont think there is any true right wingnut who will allow his or hers child to even look at old testament. Probably liberal left added that.

Daddy what did Ham do to naked drunk Noah in Genesis 9?

You can argue left vs. right in bible forever, lol.

Maybe if you explain what a "true conservative" is, this will make more sense. Oh and where are they teaching kids graphic violence and sexual acts. I must have missed that sunday. Go figure.

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Kitara: I hear you....

Off topic, but forgive me. What is it with this "Kitara" shit? Spinner, you fucker, cover your face when you sneeze!

K.

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Sorry. There's a fictional character of that name, and I'm occasionally prone to spoonerisms. I beg your pardon.

Really? I always thought it was just carelessness. It never occurred to me to look it up!

BTW, according to Wikipedia...

Kitara can refer to:

Empire of Kitara - a kingdom founded by the Bachwezi Dynasty.
Kitara - the nickname for the Sapporo Concert Hall.
Kitara (musical instrument), a 3rd Bridge zither created by Harry Partch

I guess if its the name of a fictional character too, they must have missed that one (though the Empire of Kitara appears to be myth).

Take it easy and have a good day. No hard feelings, was just sayin...

K.

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Seriously? Genesis. Including sex with minor, incest, sex with drunk person, rape.

Now for graphic violence, hmmm. Entire Revelation maybe? Including stripping naked, killing, eating human flesh, cooking human flesh.

It is book people, what is the big issue. One of the greatest literature of the human civilization.

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Seriously? Genesis. Including sex with minor, incest, sex with drunk person, rape.

Now for graphic violence, hmmm. Entire Revelation maybe? Including stripping naked, killing, eating human flesh, cooking human flesh.

It is book people, what is the big issue. One of the greatest literature of the human civilization.

I didn't ask for bible passages, I asked what church you went to where they taught you that in sunday school? I still remember most of the stories they taught us, but nothing like what you are talking about.

Oh and I asked for your definition of a "true conservative".

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Apropos my earlier comment, I just found this gem of self-serving blather in "The Trustworthy Encyclopedia".

a conservative is willing to learn and advocate the insights of economics and the morality of the Bible for the benefit of all

Somebody shoot me.

K.

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The Conservapedia and this conservative's Bible are creations of the same man. Andrew Schafly. He's the son of Phyllis Schaffly who runs the Eagle Forum, claims sole credit for defeating the ERA and is one of craziest conservatives out there.

In my view, if things have come to the point where people who apparently favor a Christian Theocracy are called "conservatives" then the word is no longer of any use in intelligent discourse.

K.

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The Conservapedia and this conservative's Bible are creations of the same man. Andrew Schafly. He's the son of Phyllis Schaffly who runs the Eagle Forum, claims sole credit for defeating the ERA and is one of craziest conservatives out there.

In my view, if things have come to the point where people who apparently favor a Christian Theocracy are called "conservatives" then the word is no longer of any use in intelligent discourse.

K.