Gender neutrality run amok?
While attending Christmas Eve services at a basically liberal church (not by choice but by circumstance) the congregation sang as might be appropriate "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." What I was...
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Not the main point of this thread, but here's a discussion of the "worm" issue, the original words of which read as follows: Would he devote that sacred Head For such a worm as I?'' In today's...
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I don't mind gender-neutrality in Bible versions as long as it doesn't amount to a mistranslation. In my version of choice, the NRSV, the inclusive language seems a bit forced at times, going to geat...
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What wheatpenny said. And that's one reason I like the Revised English Bible - it doesn't put neutral terms where they shouldn't be (though it does use them).
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