Tom Morris



2009.10.22

A scholarly take on religious bullshit 2009-10-22T22:05:18ZPermalink

Joseph Laycock and Thomas Fabisiak have a brilliant deconstruction of the Conservapedia Bible Project, specifically on the utter mangling the Conservapedians are giving to chapter 6:22 of the Gospel of Mark. Conservapedia is committing the cardinal sin of translation: bringing far too much of oneself to the table. Amazingly, the Conservapedians claim to be Biblical inerrantists, but also make appeal to "what we know as Conservatives". The Bible speaks for itself! Except where it doesn't, so we need to interpret it for you!

The idea that seems to make the Conservapedia Bible Project tick is this idea of the evil liberal interpolator sneaking his politics into the Bible after the fact. Some sort of gay demonic hell-spawn time-travelling bastard child of John Stuart Mill and Susan Sarandon has infiltrated the early Church to insert secretive lines from Das Kapital and the Democratic Party platform into the Bible? And the best they can do is forgive them Father for they know not what they do and let he who is without sin cast the first stone? Curses, these time-travelling hyper-liberal zombie-bots are a piece of trash. Funny, because when us heathens suggest that the early Church may have made shit up and put it in the Bible, certain people flip their lid - then they promptly adopt the same practice in order to make a political point.

Also on Religion Dispatches - a really interesting blog, btw - Heresy, Bad Taste, or Capitalist Adventure: Is it Still Pentecostalism? by Anthea Butler. It's all about the Word of Faith people. They are really nuts.

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