2005: The Year of the Revisionist (Bible revision)
CFP ^ | March 16, 2005 | Judi McLeod
 

Welcome to 2005, `Year of the Big Revisionist’.

The Ides of March, 2005 was the first day consumers could purchase one of the world’s most widely read Bibles, the New International Version–fully "revised".

Archaic language in the Holy Book must have been getting to the tragically hip. So much so that a team of 15 American and British scholars were sent to parse and modernize it.

Would it be too politically correct to say what the scholars really did? They watered the offensive Bible down and whitewashed its words under the time-wasting guise of only wanting to modernize it.

The original writers of the Bible did not enjoy the same working conditions of 21st century scholars. There were no government grants going the rounds, and, of course there were always the jaws of the waiting lions.

We cannot say how the lions and lambs fared in the thousands of corrections made by the scholars.

But the "aliens" in biblical tales are now "foreigners".

With everyone at the United Nations now claiming to be one, the scholars likely didn’t get around to re-naming the word "angels".

The term "saints", which may have been good enough for the faithful, but not good enough for the bible clean-up crew, got axed. Too "ecclesiastical", they said. From now on, you can call Francis, Agnes and Patrick saints in your memory, but they have been banished in favour of the description, "God’s chosen people".

The Virgin Mary, for your information, is no longer "with child". She is "pregnant". At least these busybodies of academe did not resort to the colloquialism of "preggers".

Remember the age-old truism that when God created man he created him in the likeness of God? It now reads when "God created human beings", etc., etc. . . . .
 

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