now, the conservapedia alone is stupid enough for a whole post... but it actually gets better. witness: The Conservative Bible Project!
theres a lot i could say about this, but its been pretty well said already by Good Math/Bad Math. yeah, i know, this isnt math... the blog author occasionally goes off-topic. i rarely EVER agree with him on the times he does, but in this case, he's spot on. the meat of it:
What the "Conservative Bible Project" is doing is not translating the bible. It is rewriting the bible to make it say what they want it to say, without regard for what it actually says. These people, who insist that every word of their holy texts must be taken as absolute literal truth without interpretation -- are rewriting their bibles to make it say what they want it to say.wow. just... wow. a commenter contends that christianity has a proud tradition of this kind of redaction, but i think its closer to the truth that its a HUMAN tradition thats been going on as long as we could write, unfortunately.
You might think that I'm just exaggerating, since I'm a flaky liberal reconstructionist jew. But I'm really not. If you look at their explanation of what they're doing, it's not translating. Translating is going to the original text, which is written in some language X, and trying to convert it to language Y without loss of meaning. They don't even pretend that they're going back to the original sources. They're taking existing translations of the original text into english, and then re-writing them whenever they don't like what they say. They describe looking back to at the original text as a last resort "exception" (their word!) to their "translation" process.