These are the goals (with my comments below in red):
1. Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias
Honestly, I don't know what this even means. How does one intend to provide a framework in a translation? That's more of an architectural thing, I should think.
2. Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" language, and other feminist distortions; preserve many references to the unborn child (the NIV deletes these).
3. Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level.
4. Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms to capture better the original intent; Defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer"; similarly, updating words that have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle".
5. Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as "gamble" rather than "cast lots"; using modern political terms, such as "register" rather than "enroll" for the census.
6. Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.
7. Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning.
8. Exclude Later-Inserted Inauthentic Passages: excluding the interpolated passages that liberals commonly put their own spin on, such as the adulteress story.
9. Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels.
10. Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities; prefer concise, consistent use of the word "Lord" rather than "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" or "Lord God."
2. Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" language, and other feminist distortions; preserve many references to the unborn child (the NIV deletes these).
Does this include feminizing references to "Sofia", which is normally translated as "wisdom"?
3. Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level.
Most of the bible is written in relatively primitive language. The reading level you translate to is sort of dealer's choice.
4. Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms to capture better the original intent; Defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer"; similarly, updating words that have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle".
I love that the perceived change in the meaning of the word "peace" is considered actionable.
5. Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as "gamble" rather than "cast lots"; using modern political terms, such as "register" rather than "enroll" for the census.
Casting lots is a lot more like drawing straws than shooting craps.
6. Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.
That's twice now that the author of this list has called for more biblical logic. Is that maddeningly anachronistic to anyone else?
7. Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning.
As we all know, Jesus loved capitalism.
8. Exclude Later-Inserted Inauthentic Passages: excluding the interpolated passages that liberals commonly put their own spin on, such as the adulteress story.
But including the interpolated passages that support the myth that Jesus was real.
9. Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels.
Again, I have no idea what people think this means.
10. Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities; prefer concise, consistent use of the word "Lord" rather than "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" or "Lord God."
This is where conservatives forget that words mean things! Jehovah and Yahweh are different words and represent different concepts (specifically, Jehovah represented a melding of two different concepts of God: Yahweh and Elohim). You would lose that richness because in your demented worldview "wordy" = "liberal"?
Buh.
So yes, the bible, the beacon of conservative dogma since who-knows-when, apparently could use a little improving by the people who love it so much.
I dare say the serpent has swallowed its own tail.
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Are we really surprised at this? This is definitely not the first time a political organization has manipulated a religious document (much less the collection of documents that make up the Bible - King James sound familiar? how about the Apocrypha?) to suit their own agenda.
I've been pondering a new organization - Patriots Against Confederate Flags. If you own or fly a confederate flag, even just a bumper sticker on your ratty-ass hillbilly pickup, or on a shirt with the sleeves ripped off, it means you're not a real patriot, as a real patriot wouldn't revere a political movement that tried to break up the country, even all that long time ago.
Wait, aren't many conservatives southerners who like to show said southern pride by flying the Stars and Bars? Why, I do declare, I had no idea! *innocent eyes*
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