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I'm at that point in the semester where I am completely unmotivated to do anything. Except sleep. I like sleeping. I just don't seem to focus. At least I seem to be keeping up with all of my classes. Hopefully motivation will swing it's way through the door soon.

More concerning, though, was that I heard today about the new "conservative" translation of the Bible. Such gems of this include the removing of "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do" because it only appears in one Gospel and was obviously added to further the liberal agenda. I hate to tell the translators how to do their job, but there are several things that show up in only one Gospel and not in the other 3- that's why we have 4. Also, the phrase "casting lots" instead of "gambling" insert a liberal insertion, casting lots is a much more historical term. Same with laborer. Laborer ≠ volunteer. It just seems so wrong to purposefully announce that you are purifying your Bible to meet with your political agenda. I'll agree that more recent translations have a liberal bias in cases of phraseology and gender sensitivity. But many of the textual arguments that this group is making have been text since the KJV and I would doubt that anyone is going around saying the the KJV is overtly liberal.

One other point- the translators complain that the Bible has been "dumb-downed" to a "7th grade reading level." I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of the translations that purposefully try to write scripture in the vernacular. The Message really bothers me for that reason. But seriously, if you want people to understand the Bible you can't really make it super difficult linguistically. Actually, that's entirely contradictory to Jesus because he spent the most time around uneducated people. But then that is probably a liberal bias that Jesus pitied the poor and instead really wants a strong free market economy where being poor is an indicator of human failing and not society.

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project