I’ve previously described America’s “Conservative Movement” as the bastard offspring of Cyrus Schofield and Ayn Rand; The religious right in particular has basically become a mix of small-town prejudice and political ideology that has little or nothing to do with the Gospels. It’s nothing more than a rather totalitarian political ideology with a few bits of Christian language and imagery glued on for flavour.
I suppose The Conservative Bible Project is the logical end-point of this. It’s a project to ‘re-translate’ The Bible to remove centuries of ‘liberal bias’. For example, it gives these goals.
Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning.
Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story
Now, I know this reads like a parody, but reliable sources say this is for real. There is no response to things like this other than mockery.
Some excellent commentary on this from Slacktivist, a blogger I’ve reading for several years, who always has something to say about the idiocies of the religious right.
Plenty of other recent posts of his are well worth reading – especially the one on the significance of the Book of Jonah, which explains why the fundamentalists go on about the whale, and ignore the rest of the story, and the reason Vampires hate crosses.