re: #186 Walter L. Newton

I love this point…

3) 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[3]

Yet everything I read yesterday when this came up was totally diluting intellectual force, since they are ready to throw out almost 2000 years of scientific textual criticism in order to remold the hebrew and greek text to say what they want it to say.

This is cognitive dissonance on the pathological level… really.

Dostoevsky and the Grand Inquisitor, anyone?