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Summary: One of the greatest sins against literature in history
Review: During the Qin Dynasty in Ancient China the first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi burned thousands of books and buried their authors alive, destroying an unknown amount of Chinese classical literature. This "Bible" is written with the same mentality but with nicer wrapping.
The Bible is not only a religious book but an essential book to understanding western literature; the Bible is argueably the most influential book in western history. Changing it would be a huge step toward a world like the one describe in Ray Bradberry's Farenheit 451 (people are only allowed to have books approved by the government--one justification is certain books promote racial tension).
Racism is a problem in our society but this isn't the solution. Butchering an important piece of classical literature and for many people, spiratual belief will not make anything better.
Don't buy this book. Buy "Today's English Version", "King James Version", "New Revised Standard Version", any other version. Just not this one.
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Summary: THE POLITICALLY CORRECT BIBLE! Spare Me!
Review: One of the most politically incorrect books evr goes P.C.! They have taken the Bible and taken out all words that might be considered sexist, racist, homophobic, bigoted. And made this ancient text which has passed down through the ages, influenced the lives of millions (for good and much bad) and made it all safe, clean, politically correct and non-offensive to all those easily offended gender, racial, and out of the ordinary sexual groups!Oh my! Heaven forbid the Bible should offend someone! PLEASE!!! I'm an agnostic, I think it would be great if there was a higher power, but I'm smart enough to know all religion is bunk. Religion has caused more suffering than the movies of Adam Sandler! And now they try and rewrite it and make it all very politically correct. The right wing has done this for years in some regards, now it's time for the left to do the same. This is a dumber book than Kevin Smith's movie Dogma. I remember Kevin's dialogue from Selma Hayek saying the Bible was "gender biased". I wanted to throw up when I heard that pukey P.C. 90's talk. Yeah, it is gender biased. If you don't like it, don't believe in the Bible! Just don't try to make a thousand plus year old book all safe and P.C. so it can fit into your idiotic politically correct liberal way of thinking. You have to take the Bible as it is written or not at all. If you don't you are just deluding yourself. Being gay was a big no-no when the Bible was written. Not in ancient Rome, but in a lot places it was. And being a woman made you a second class citizen. I don't think either holds up today. But it did then. The Bible is hopelessly outdated by today's standards. So don't try and make it P.C. for the idiot Kevin Smith crowd. Now the Bible is politically correct! Maybe the end is near like the prophets say. Thank God the politically correct 1990's are over. This book is SO 90's! SO P.C.! And so utterly dated already!
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Summary: Why get so upset and defensive?
Review: This translation is complied by accomplished scholars, and serves a needed purpose. If you don't like it, don't read it! I enjoy this translation, and find it helpful in my devotional life.
The great thing is that we CAN read what we want to read, and we CAN ask the questions we want to ask, and we CAN question established authority, even religious authority. I firmly believe that God can handle it, and it is our right as Americans. This is is a point the other reviewers seem to miss.
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