The best-selling version of the Bible in the North Americas is being re-tooled; most notably it will be edited for more current diction and terminology to make it easier to read for new generations.

Story from Associated Press (courtesy of Yahoo! News):

The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text. The New International Version, the Bible of choice for conservative evangelicals, will be revised to reflect changes in English usage and advances in Biblical scholarship, it was announced Tuesday. The revision is scheduled to be completed late next year and published in 2011.

“We want to reach English speakers across the globe with a Bible that is accurate, accessible and that speaks to its readers in a language they can understand,” said Keith Danby, global president and CEO of Biblica, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Christian ministry that holds the NIV copyright.

The problem is most North American citizens don’t exactly adhere to the Queen’s English anymore.  The revisions are going to have to be drastic to hold any meaning with an average teenager.

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You get the idea.  I was going to insert more quotes but after the last one, I quit.  Even my threshold is beginning to be breached.

Oh, and supposedly revising the Bible is supposed to start a flame war over homosexual’s rights again, and the definition of men and women in relation to God and sexuality.  Whatever.  PWND!!!!!