Maybe we should introduce Critical Text scholars to Theosophy so they'll get out of the churches and seminaries altogether?

From a forum thread where a discussion of just how Westcott and Hort were able to change the landscape so easily and how their followers continue to be so successful:

Without first understanding, at least to some extent, the superiority of the Reformation Bible (which can include the gross inferiority of the Vulgate and the utter textual decadence of the alexandrian-based versions) it is difficult to expect that a person will leave the corrupt modern versions for the King James Bible. In seeking information, they will be fighting against an avalanche of agiprop, peer pressure and the version industrial complex, with tentacles throughout public Christendom and academia, such as paid 'critical consultants' shilling for the corrupt versions. All designed all around trying to prop up the decrepit modern versions. Some will see the truth nonetheless... - Steven Avery

Of course there are other reasons as well, but I just thought the above paragraph was well-put.

Read that paragraph and ask yourself: which side of the battle line do you want to be found on when the King returns? Do you care? I get the impression most of the Critical Text champions and followers are indifferent. They are indifferent to the Word of God itself as well. It's just another text they determine the meaning of, changing it if necessary. It's not something that they value as being above them. It is beneath them. In their power. They will tell God what His revealed Word is.

This is a point that is never expressed as well and is central to the guilt of the Critical Text scholars: they spend no time warning people of Critical Text versions such as the TNIV or the Message or the New Living Translation (versions only worse in degree than the NASB and ESV and NIV, but obviously with far less shame in hiding their program of corrupting the pure and whole Word of God). These exist because of the Critical Text. The CTers though feel no responsibility to warn people of them. The fact is they are convicted by them and they avoid mention of them to avoid being convicted by them publically. Do they really think they can hide all this from God's eyes? One thinks they actually think they can. Sin is irrational to its core. The devil actually thinks he can defeat that which created him.