The feminists and post-modernists have gotten their hands on the New International Version of the Bible. Some of the results:

Out: “When God created Man, he made him in the likeness of God.”
In: “When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God.”

Out: “Saints” (deemed “too ecclesiastical”).
In: “God’s chosen people.”

Out: “with child.”
In: “pregnant.”

The Telegraph reports:

More than 45,000 changes - about seven per cent of the text - have been made. Even the title has been changed to Today’s New International Version. The new version has already caused a stir in the United States, however. Paige Patterson, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that the translators had gone beyond trying to clarify meaning.

“They have an agenda - to attempt to force egalitarian and even feminist perspectives on readers in the name of translation,” he said.

MoltenThought says why stop there?

Why not take this all the way?

Aren’t the Ten Commandments too unhip?

Why not make them a little more 21st century, a Generation Y translation if you will:

1. I am the cool mack daddy of the dope hype flow. Give me props and mad respect.
2. Don’t be kneeling for some bling bling.
3. Don’t be throwing my name around, be it J. Hovah or Yah Diddy.
4. Yo, Sunday is “funday”, ya dig?
5. Respect your moms, your pops, or whoever it was raised you, unless they whack.
6. Thou shalt not bust a cap in someone’s ass.
7. Don’t be running around on people like they don’t know.
8. No five-finger discounts.
9. Don’t front.
10. If your neighbor’s got a fly crib or a pimped-out set of wheels, that’s they bidness, not yours.

Out: Amen.
In: Word.

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More blogger reaction:

John J. Walt: “Like it hasn’t been massaged enough already…”

Civil Commotion has been covering the theological debate for some time.

For serious, in-depth coverage of the controversy, see Mark D. Roberts. (Hat tip: Jeff the Baptist)

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