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March 24, 2007

Leave Sacred Texts Alone

Two new articles remind me of something that has bothered me for a long time. The first one is about how PETA is portraying Jesus at the Last Supper as a vegetarian, and the second one is about a woman who has just finished a feminist version of the Koran. The common thread is the changing of a sacred text to suit a particular point of view. It is a far cry from revisions made to other old stories, such as the hilarious Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, because people who believe in the sacred texts are very offended by the revisions. In their eyes, these revisions are changing something that they believe is the immutable, unchangeable word of God and thereby telling God he was wrong. It simply isn't funny and whatever message they might wish to express could be better and more effectively expressed without adding the baggage of insults of the religious world and their God.

Posted by Becky at March 24, 2007 11:58 AM