Sunday, April 15, 2007

The Holey Bible

The Dutch Western Bible Foundation has produced a new bible for modern society: The Western Bible, in which they have physically cut out portions of the text that they don't feel apply any more. According to the group (via BabelFish translation):
We have cut everything what is not appropriate at the 21st century. No word concerning money or poverty. This can let you read with a rested heart to your children!
The group is actually a fictional creation of an activist Christian group called Time To Turn that is focused on encouraging sustainable living. They created the campaign to point out the hypocrisy of most modern Christians. The Bible (or at least a prototype version) is actually for sale in the Netherlands.

Thanks to Marc for his help on this!

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2 Comments:

Blogger Mica said...

Wow, amazing. Any relation to The Jefferson Bible? This was the one Thomas Jefferson edited to suit his day in the 1800's. Look: http://newsdesk.si.edu/images_full/images/museums/nmah/treasures/jefferson_bible.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

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Blogger alrdesign said...

No relation that I know of, but I am familiar with the Jefferson Bible and I love that one of our Founding Fathers was so cavalier about editing the Bible.

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