[Revelation 911]

uh - joe - lemme know when you spot one of them there fe-manists

In the meanwhile, I'll be on guard for the feminists

It makes me wonder about the correct spelling of your name too

...is it really joesniffy? LOL

have a good day snuff

[CatoRenasci]

This sort of thing has been going on in the mainline Protestant churches in the US for years. I think the New Revised Standard translation has gone a long way towards political correctness and there are other translations that are even worse. And many Protestant hymnals have been rewritten to be politically correct. Possibly the worst is the UCC's New Century Hymnal which not only adds dozens , if not hundreds, of politically correct new concoctions (I wouldn't call them hymns), but rewrites all of the old standards to remove all references to God as male.

While it is undoubtedly true that some of the more modern translations of the Bible, e.g. the Jerusalem Bible for Roman Catholics and the New English Bible for Protestants, are more accurate translations because they draw on older manuscripts and better scholarship, for the sheer power of language, nothing compares to the Authorized Version (King James) in English, Luther's German Bible, or St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible.

Most familiar to Americans of these older translations is King James, which has fallen out of favor primarily because it is hard not because it is so very wrong. There were late 19th century translations in English (an English Standard and American Standard version with slight variations) that kept most of the language of King James, but fixed some of the mistakes which 19th century scholarship found. They weren't bad at all.

I never understood how, in high school we could read Shakespeare in the original Elizabethan English, and Chaucer in middle english, but King James was too hard to understand.

[Bennett46]

I would think this endeavor amounts to quite a bit of work and expense. I doubt these "revisers" have read the Bible through to the end, though.

What a suprise they have in store for themselves.

Revelation 22:18-19

Rev. 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

Rev. 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Perhaps they will decide to leave the book of Revelation out of their Feminest Bible?

[poet]

"Translators will also remove references to "Lord" and "Our Father.""

Hmm, probably change them to "Mom & Lover". These people are truly wackos.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Mother Teresa - the ultimate feminist.

[Arthur McGowan]

This could be called the IOGHBBI Version: If Only God Had Been Better Informed.

[DonQ]

Some Reform Jews adopted a "gender neutral" prayerbook about ten years ago. It no longer refers to "Lord" - ostensibly because that is a male noun in contrast to Lady - but it still uses "God" (having forgotten that is also male in contrast to Goddess). No longer "King" of the Universe but Ruler or Sovereign. So some familiar lines from old liturgy are now changed.

The real complaint is that, in order to avoid masculine/feminine pronouns (such as him/her, or his/hers), many sentences have been twisted so they no longer are good English ... nor faithful translations of the original Hebrew.

Do not, however, suppose this is very new. For about a century the Christian Scientists have been praying to "Father-Mother" God.

[horse_doc]

The new Bible goes along with the new wing of Hell that they are working on.

[Cicero]

Another church down the tubes, evidently.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[exmarine]

This is no surprise. It's from Germany - the mother country of liberal empty theology. Modern day Europe is apost-Christian, cold and dead socialist society. They have sewn the seeds of their own destruction. Thanks to their unrelenting attack on Christianity (that began in earnest with the French revolution) and their postmodern ideas of society, they all have negative populations growths and within 50 years, they will be dominated by muslim immigrants. And we all know what happens in countries where muslims have large populations...

[Stone Mountain]

Specifically, the term disciple is to be changed to "disciples and disciplesses."

This has got to be a joke. "Disciple" isn't gender-specific, is it?