Pentagon to Publish Propaganda-Laden Bibles

[rainbow4321]

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=041208#20

Although the International Bible Society (IBS) indeed will crank out a limited-run, special edition of the New International Version Bible in the near future, it's unlikely that readers will discover, for example, a previously unreleased surprise ending to the Good Book. Rather, according to FedBizOpps.com, a site for federal government procurement opportunities, the Department of Defense intends to award the IBS a sole-source contract for the production of 10,000 Bibles containing military-specific messages and imagery. The Bibles - which will be distributed to soldiers of the elite U.S. Special Operations Command - will feature a "custom-designed cover" and "Army designed color photographs and text inserts."

It appears that IBS's crafting of the Special Ops Bible will rely on the "new package, same great taste" approach that the commercial sector often takes when introducing a new logo or easy-grip handle for an existing product. It's hopefully safe to assume that though the Bibles are new, they will not be "improved." IBS has an extraordinary task ahead of it, as they must juxtapose, hypothetically, Christ's "Blessed are the peacemakers" pronouncement with army-centric motivational messages and images. A tough job indeed, given the context of 100,000 "excess casualties" - consisting mainly of women and children - that U.S. and British military forces may have caused since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as indicated in the Oct. 29, 2004, edition of The Lancet, a British medical journal.

[imenja]

1. No, it's not a crusade

This is outrageous. Now the Bush administration has taken upon itself to revise the Bible?! I wonder what the fundamentalists think about this? They believe every word as written is the literally true, unadulterated text. I would assume that means it cannot be altered.

[WCGreen]

5. every version of the bible is a revision...

The original books were written in Aremiac or Greek and then translated into latin and then every other language....

How can any of this be considered the word of God when so many hands of man have been at it.....

[lostnfound]

10. Will it include a special 66 page glossy 'Armageddon insert'?

Doesn't sound like they plan to alter the words, just add pictures, but this is incredible.

But I suspect they will withdraw the plan once it gets bad press.

I passed this on to a couple of right-wing Christian friends (the few that I still have).

[GoBlue]

2. More fuel to expose the hypocrisy of it all.

How much more will it take, before the self-destructiveness of religion will be complete?

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. I'll wait for version 2.1 and THEN I'll read it

I don't find beta bibles to be much use.




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[blondeatlast]

4. Um, crappy armor for our men and women in the thick of

battle; soldiers scavenging to armor their personnel carriers even before they are sent into battle?

Well, with the special, revised, New Pentagon Version of the Holy Bible, how can they lose?

This is outrageous.

PS: I love Sojourners.

[July]

6. Our government is handing out Bibles?

Any other religious works getting out to the troops, or is it just the special Bible?

[elehhhhna]

7. Does our Constitution allow the Fed to write,pay for &distribute this

crap? Don't think so.

[rainbow4321]

8. And have they pasted shrub's pics over Jesus'? n/t

[comsymp]

9. Love it - The King George Version...

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