How dumb can some "conservatives" be?

[Lemur]

Okay, I took a minute to look at their page. Hilarious. They're not even discussing going back to the Hebrew (for the OT) or Greek (for the NT), but rather:

In the United States and much of the world, the immensely popular and respected King James Version (KJV) is freely available and in the public domain. It could be used as the baseline for developing a conservative translation without requiring a license or any fees. Where the KJV is known to be deficient due to discovery of more authentic sources, exceptions can be made that use either more modern public domain translations as a baseline, or by using the original Greek or Hebrew.

There are 66 books in the KJV, comprised of 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses, and 788,280 words.[6] The project could begin with translation of the New Testament, which is only 27 books, 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, and less than 200,000 words.

Retranslation at rate of 20 verses a day would complete the entire New Testament in about a year. With 5 good retranslators, that would be an average of only 4 verses a day per translator. At a faster rate of 20 verses per day by 5 good translators, the entire New Testament could be retranslated in less than 3 months.

So let me get this straight, they aren't even going to do a translation? Would that be too much work? Instead they're going to do a "conservative" paraphrasing of the King James Bible, while occasionally referencing those other, harder languages? Yikes.

Just when I thought I had sworn off the idea of forced labor camps ....

[CountArach]

Fighting bias with bias.

[Lemur]

My personal favorite Chick parody.

[Louis VI the Fat]

When Rome became Christian, Christianity was revised again. An earthly hierarchy was installed.

Au-contraire; the then ‘political class’ (those families who could previously pursue political jobs) could now legitimately pursue clerical jobs. In case you didn't know being bishop (overseer, literally) then gradually became equivalent to running the local episcopate: a pretty big job. The hierarchy had always been there on the local level; the real adaptation was constructing a bigger framework in which those decentralized local bishops could co-operate within the context of and adhere to a single dogma. That is what Nicomedia & Calchedon are about: establishing that supra-organization.

Ah, I see.

So...when Rome became Christian, the political class could now legitimately pursue clerical jobs. Important functions, since the former decentralized local hierarchy was now converted into a centralized supra-organization with a single dogma?

In other words, you mean that when Rome became Christian, Christianity was revised and an earthly hierarchy was installed?

Not according to Pax Deorum, some 200 odd years of erratic persecution it didn't.

Well, you go tell Pax Deorum that she misses the point. Miss Deorum no doubt realises that the Jews enjoyed a reasonable level of autonomy in Hellenistic times. Whereas in the first two centuries AD, under Roman rule, Jewish society in Palestine was under severe duress.
This had a major impact on the development of Judaism and infant Christianity.

[Hax]

I can't believe that someone actually used "Fred Phelps" and "anarchist hippies" in the same sentence..wow.

[KukriKhan]

My imaginary friend told me that Louis is our new Messiah, and Hofstadter his prophet.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Fortunately, when you mention conservapedia, the usual reaction is "huh?", and the rest of the reactions are "oh, yeah... that's dumb." I don't believe conservapedia is representative of conservatives or Republicans; I categorize it alongside Glenn Beck, only less annoying and more funny.