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The Conservative Bible Project, a creation of the same group that developed Conservapedia (a counterweight to putatively liberal Wikipedia), is aiming to clean-up the entire King James Bible, cutting out "liberal passages" and beefing up "free market parables." As Newsbusters' Ken Shepherd reminds readers, this is far from the first time the Bible has been re-translated to fit a certain sociopolitical worldview, but that didn't stop the deluge of criticism from across the spectrum. Here are the basic patterns of attack:

Insults

Ed Brayton, Scienceblogs: "Okay, this is so stupid that it seems like it must be a joke. Then again, this is Conservapedia we're talking about here. Stupid seems to be their strong suit."

Rod Dreher, BeliefNet's CrunchyCon: "These right-wing ideologues know better than the early church councils that canonized Scripture?...It's like what you'd get if you crossed the Jesus Seminar with the College Republican chapter at a rural institution of Bible learnin'."

Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!: "Right wing dementia marches on apace."

Sarcasm

Amy Sullivan, Time's Swampland: "I look forward to learning the free-market meaning of 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.'"

Dan Gilgoff, God & Country: "A new--and still evolving--conservative translation of the Bible prefers a more populist, Glenn Beckish take: 'The intellectuals watched Jesus to see if he might catch and accuse him of healing on the Sabbath.'"

Salon Staff, Salon: "A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. Jesus said to them, 'Reagan. Definitely Reagan.'"

Hunger Tallest Palin, Rumproast: "Because Jesus was a big old capitalist. And blond haired, blue eyed and white as a bucket of fresh milk."