The Conservatives have finally realized that Jesus was a damn hippy and have decided to cut ALL liberal passages out of Bible. NO I am not kidding.

The wing nuts over at Conservapedia, you know the fascist version of Wikipedia, have decided to strip the Bible of all of that "love your fellow man", "compassion", and "social justice". Below are their ideas for ways to make the Bible more "conservative-friendly".

As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[1]

Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias

Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, "gender inclusive" language, and other modern emasculation of Christianity

Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level[2]

Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms as they develop;[3] defective translations use the word "comrade" three times as often as "volunteer"; similarly, updating words which have a change in meaning, such as "word", "peace", and "miracle"

Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as "gamble" rather than "cast lots";[4] using modern political terms, such as "register" rather than "enroll" for the census

Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.

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

Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels

Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities

Thus, a project has begun among members of Conservapedia to translate the Bible in accordance with these principles. The translated Bible can be found here.

You can read the rest of the Conservapedia description right here.

Perhaps a few days ago I might have believed that these morons represented only the most fringe lunatics of the conservative religious right. But that was before I spent yesterday attending the services at the Anchorage Baptist Temple I have become aware of the large number of seemingly regular people who readily applaud gay bashing from the pulpit, and who seem completely unaware of the compassion for others that was the foundation of Christ's teaching.

I have little doubt that when, and if, these vile individuals remove the love and compassion from the Bible, that Jerry Prevo will not only accept the validity of the new books, but that he will bring it to the pulpit and choose to preach only from it for the remainder of his life.

The information age, and scientific discovery have badly wounded Christianity, but it will take simple minded hate-mongers like this to finally destroy it. All TRUE Christians should stand up for their religion before it is too late.