Is the Bible too liberal?

Conservapedia's attempt to weed out "liberal bias" from modern Bible translations

"And you thought liberal bias was limited to the evil mainstream media," said Amy Sullivan in Time. The guys at Conservapedia (aka, "the trustworthy encyclopedia") have launched a project to retranslate the Bible, because, they say, "liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations." They want to "replace liberal words like 'labor'" with terms conservatives like better, and "explain the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning." This takes crazy to a whole new level.

Okay, so "an explicitly 'conservative' interpretation" of the Bible isn't such a great idea, said Ken Shepherd in Newsbusters.org. But it's interesting that Time's Sullivan and others are lambasting Conservapedia's Conservative Bible Project after all the "reverent treatment" the media gave to the "so-called Green Bible," an edition that claimed that "eco-neglect" violates Jesus' teachings by hurting the poor. How about treating both projects with equal doses of "scorn and thoughtful criticism"?

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