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This seems just sick to me. If the Bible says something that appears to be problematic to you, you need to find ways of interpreting it with exegetical philosophy. But you can't just arbitrarily change the text of the Bible because you have issues with it. If that's how you're going to solve problems then you might as well just convert to another religion, or invent a new religion, because that's essentially what you're doing.
And as for altering the Christian Scriptures, frankly (though I shouldn't say it-- not being a Christian myself), it seems outrageously full of chutzpah to change a series of texts centering around a guy who deliberately walked around with the dregs of society, preaching about the value of all people, the need for peace, and how you should spend all your time and money taking care of the poor; so as to remove the liberal references and make religion more palatable to a bunch of xenophobic, bigoted rich people and wanna-be-rich people who want their government to support warfare, but not aiding poverty or providing health care....
But maybe that's just my Jewish ignorance of Christians showing through....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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