Wha???

One of the letters to the editor in response to Kristof's column about Bishop Spong's book offering a liberal (i.e., compassionate) interpretation of the Bible:

Nicholas D. Kristof must have a different version of the Bible than I do. Mine calls for individual responsibility and action, not for a government to take money from people who produce and distribute it to others to make liberals feel good about themselves.

*splutter incoherently*

*use sextant and compass to re-acquire fix on location of reality*

Hello??? Charity? Do unto others? As you do unto the least of these, so you do unto me? The meek shall inherit the earth?

Driftglass was right - they really *are* using a completely different version of the Bible from everyone else. I think the moneychangers in the temple may have written it, actually...