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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Tony Cartledge skins the 'conservatized' Bible

We have little regard for Andy Schlafly's "Conservative Bible Project," and Tony Cartledge, an associate professor of Old Testament at Campbell University, has less.

He gives the project a fair and thorough review, concluding:

It should be apparent to anyone with a modicum of intelligence that Schlafly's project will produce nothing more than a radically biased rewriting of the Bible slanted toward an extremely conservative political point of view and designed to reinforce that particular worldview. The One who inspired the scripture needs no re-interpretation of divine revelation.

Read the entire piece here.

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