Right wing political correctness

Surely the most irritating manifestation of political correctness is the myriad attempts to rewrite the Bible using politically correct language.   My objections to political correctness are neither to political nor religious, but historical and aesthetic.

Such translations read like they were written for a race of morons.  Generally speaking, the more educated the parishioner, the sillier his or her Bible sounds.

In the great "race to the bottom" that characterizes so much of American culture, not wanting to be outdone by the thought-police on the left, some right-wing Americans have decided to write a politically correct Bible of their own.  They call it the Conservative Bible Project.  My favorites:

• Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning
• Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story

Stupid. Nevertheless, I agree with one aim shared by these conservatives:

• Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level

However, It looks to me like their whole approach is, in fact, grounded in dumbness. Their "new improved"  translation is supposed to be based on the King James Version.   To me, that makes about as much sense as attempting an "improved" translation of Shakespeare.   Of course, serious people don't make new translations out of translations.  A competent (i.e. not dumb) approach toward uncovering conservative "meanings" would necessitate going back to the original Greek sources.

Nevertheless, let it be said that these conservatives are no more foolish than those left-wingers who set out to rewrite the Bible in seventh-grade English using gender-neutral language.