Religion: Unmanning the Holy Bible

The sexual-textual revolution comes to Scripture

What is a human being that you are mindful of him, and a mortal that you care for him?

Sound familiar but somehow fiat? The more famous rendering of Psalms 8: 4 is rather more ringing: "What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?" But Christians in the English-speaking world had better get used to the neutered wording, for it may appear in the new edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible due a decade...

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