I don’t like “agnostic” because it bears the suggestion that we can never know, and I’ve always felt like that’s just kinda lazy. Dawkins feels the same, actually.

The term “atheist” likewise feels to me like it says “God doesn’t exist!” as opposed to “Well, I sure don’t see him anywhere”, and there’s a subtle and very arguable difference – one’s a proactive denial of a concept, one’s simply noting a general lack of any evidence and thus refusing to sign onto it. I’m in that latter camp, so I’m not quite satisfied with thinking of myself as an atheist (or maybe I’m just too trained to not like it). Shoot, I’m not even entirely convinced of macroevolution.

But funny you should suggest “grieved and perturbed” (and not just because it was, er, funny). I was actually thinking of posting something to the effect of “Whew. I feel better,” because it’s true that I had some initial fury that I really needed to work out by hammering on some theology. In fact I don’t know if I’m done yet. Guess we’ll see.

Oops. I just reread my employment contract. That is what they’re paying me for. At the time I signed the contract, I thought maybe they were just joking about that part. Apparently not.

Actually, I’m reading exactly what I expected (and hoped for) when my co-blogger switched from a Theocrat to a, err, what do you call yourself these days? Atheist? Agnostic? Grieved and perturbed?

Hmmm. The Project founder(s?) write that “[the KJV] could be used as the baseline for developing a conservative translation without requiring a license or any fees.”

How does one use a certain translation as a ‘baseline’? By simply accepting the translation of the KJV but updating it with some modern synonyms, i.e. the NKJV? Can you really even call that a translation? Because deciding for yourself what the meaning of a passage is, never mind the word choice, is important.

That better change soon, ’cause I’m starting to get cranky.

The ESV is a quite careful, word-for-word translation. It’s a bit stunning that it’s not conservative enough for them. It must not come down heavily enough against gambling and the evil liberals carefully hidden among the apostles.