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this amuses me to no end.
it seems that what these folk want to do really is make jesus into a blunt-talking asshole, so less himself and more like, o i dunno, dirty harry.
i couldnt find any indication that there was a translation in the sense of going to original sources. my sense from a bit of research is that they're using the king james version as their "original"
and what they're interested in is making a new version that is purged of alot of this forgiveness and redemption stuff. more hell-fire and exclusion. i imagine it was difficult for alot of fundies to have the kind of Neurotic Problem alot of them seem to have with ILLEGALS and other persecuting agents and be abjured by jesus to love others and forgive them.
best to erase jesus to save jesus from himself.
there's a wiki that i found which appears to be the conservative bible project.
sadly there's no texts up yet.
i was kinda excited to read the clint eastwood jesus.
yes i was.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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