Dear John & Doves,

Yesterday I posted an article "No Getting Stoned In New Bible" from http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1436492,00.html  Below are some excerpts from another article called "Rewritten Bible Banishes Saints" showing some more of the changes that were made in the Bible that were not mentioned in yesterday's article.

"Gone is the word "aliens", which the academics thought was invariably associated in the minds of the younger generation with extra-terrestrials. It is replaced with "foreigners".

"Even the term "saints" is deemed to be too "ecclesiastical" and has been banished, to be replaced with "God's chosen people".

"Where the original read: "When God created Man, he made him in the likeness of God"; the new version says: "When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God."

"More than 45,000 changes - about seven per cent of the text - have been made. Even the title has been changed to Today's New International Version."

FULL STORY at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/15/nbible15.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/03/15/ixhome.html