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Old 01-28-2002, 12:19 PM   #1
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Where can I steal one of these? I'm surely not going to put money in a xtians pocket.

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Randy Stinson, executive director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, a Louisville, Ky., group that works to preserve gender specific language, said Monday he had not yet seen the revisions but was concerned that word meanings may have been altered.

"This is incredibly serious to evangelicals, how the Bible is translated," Stinson said. "We believe the Bible is the word of God, so changing these things deliberately is dangerous."
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Yet another case of Xenophanes's Law: people create deities in their own likeness. And in this case, holy books.
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I'd have no problem putting money into a Christian's pocket, but when the Christian happens to be Rupert Murdoch I might skip it anyway.
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Where can I steal one of these? I'm surely not going to put money in a xtians pocket.

Hmmm… I wonder what kind of response a Christian would receive around here if they said, “I’m surely not going to put money in an atheist’s pocket.”

It’s nice to know there isn’t a double standard…
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