The Archbishop of Canterbury has given his approval to Good as New, a politically correct rewrite of The Bible.
In the real Bible, to take one example, St. Paul counsels men to avoid temptation by finding wives. He counsels women to avoid temptation by finding husbands. In Good as New, a book that John Benson claims he translated from original scripture, St. Paul says something very different. “There’s nothing wrong with remaining single, like me,” Good as New’s St. Paul says. “But if you know you have strong needs, get yourself a partner. Better than being frustrated.” What? Get yourself a partner? Is this a joke?
Blasphemy isn’t merely a term marking one as a latter day Cotton Mather. Blasphemy is a real sin, especially grievous if committed by one who actually believes in the God of the Bible. Is it that John Benson thinks he can write better than God, or is it that he just doesn’t like what God has to say? It’s probably an equal share of both. Even if one doesn’t believe in God, bowdlerizing history and falsely attributing quotes to others should stand as disreputable actions.
It’s fashionable to be seen as Christian but unfashionable to behave as one. Non-believers want to maintain the societal respectability without following the faith. So, they long for God to follow man’s whim rather than man to follow God’s command. Everyman is his own God, I guess. That’s the message of Good as New.
“Instead of being taken into a specialised religious frame of reference,” the Church of England's most well-known clerical leader maintains, “we have here a vehicle for thinking and worshiping that is fully earthed, recognisably about our humanity.” And that’s just what Good as New is: Man discarding God and worshiping himself.
Isn't that what the father in the miserable "American Pie" film series councelled his son, to "get a partner."
Check out the so-called bishop's great bushy eyebrows and beard, they are great! He looks fearsome like some sort of pagan Celtic sorcerer . . . and apparently he has the theology to match.
