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According to Rudy Giuliani, there were no ‘domestic terror attacks’ under Bush

I enjoy a good laugh at a politician just as much as everyone else, no matter what side of the fence they’re on. When someone says that there were no “domestic terror attacks” under Bush like former NYC mayor Rudy “Not even a champion speller can get his last name right” Giuliani, you have to question their memory. And this man was a presidential candidate.

Even if he was talking post-9/11, his selective memory chose to wipe out such incidents as the anthrax scare, the shoe bomb, the Oklahoma football stadium bombing, and so many incidents that Wikipedia has them documented by year starting in 1970. We really do live in a crazy world.

And just to show you that I really will make fun of anyone in politics, Obama won’t interrupt the Lost premiere with his State of the Union address. He’ll just interrupt at the climax and say, “Imma let you finish, Sawyer, but Gilligan’s Island was the best stranded island show of all time!”

Does Christianity really need another Bible?

Conservative wiki Conservapedia has taken on a new project: translate the Bible to rid it of liberal bias. Even though there are already hundreds of translations of the Bible available for general consumption, few are in the public domain, and Conservapedia plans to use the King James Version, a public domain translation with its own biases. In fact, the wiki lists advantages to having a conservative Bible available online, among them:

this would debunk the pervasive and hurtful myth that Jesus would be a political liberal today

While this topic is debatable (though I think Jesus would be a political liberal), Conservapedia is taking the wrong approach. Creating a conservative Bible to support their hypothesis of Jesus’ non-liberal leaning is simply bad logic–one of the worst kinds of all, in fact. You can’t assume that something is true and then make up your own evidence to show that the hypothesis is true. This may not be science, but the logic still stands.

Question of the day: Does Christianity really need another translation, especially one that exists to be more of a political platform than a religious one? The religion doesn’t need this one. This is what stereotypes are made of, both of religion and politics.

I can’t help but notice that no one has started translating Revelation yet, though. That one should be fun.