There's a saga, an edda, a lengthy chronicle of folk lore which is getting the radical right's panties in a twist. So they plan to edit the huge tome to make it more ... well ... conservative.
We're talking about a text which was written by near illiterates, based on hearsay, substantially edited over the centuries, translated and retranslated, disputed, reviled, revered, and now about to undergo further alteration by a group of people who are close kin to the Texas textbook critics.
We're talking about the Bible, of course. Rachel Weiner and Andrew Sullivan have been following the efforts of the Conservative Bible Project.
Surely this is a joke. No, writes Sullivan. It's not an Onion thing, it's for real. Beliefnet even links us to the asylum where the work of removing all Liberal Untruths from the Bible is underway.
The problem here dates back to 1776, the point at which our culture became corrupted by so-called "self-evident truths," all of which are very troubling to those who believe no truth is "self-evident." Truth, pal, is what they say it is.
That's enough of that. I'm off for tea and bickies with Mr. Orwell.
