[dubman]

not to be the party pisser humoring these fucking psychos on their own terms but:

some of the talk from when i went to catholic/baptist/protestant elementary schools that i remember did mention about how the king james version is but one of a few possible roads the bible could be interpreted as, but it happens to be the most widespread. when people say "bible", people mean "the king james version of the bible (or 'new' knig james)"
so going back and doing your own thing with the "original text"... well, that's probably going to be called the "american nutbag" version but it wouldnt be as mind-blowingly sacreligious as assumed. KJV was basically re-framed to fit the church of england's ideology at the expense of their puritan irritants.

however i strongly doubt that these people have a fluent and subtle grasp of latin, greek, hebrew, and aramaic and wouldn't just be working off of KJV (already a divergent text) with a big red pen like a schoolpaper. but that'd be assuming

so since it'd probably just end up being a version of a version of a book which stands to just keep fucking people over iiii'm not going to care too hard about whats basically nonsense.

edit: on second thought this is probably a lot more shallow than that. i;m not sure if they're even aware of the bible's history. they dont seem to be trying to justify it intellectually (trying being the key word), they just resent 'wordiness' and that which pesters the black and white of their politics.
god, even yr stereotypical fanatic has the sense to pervert interpretation instead of metaphorically upending the board game.