Talk:Gail Riplinger

I tried to edit this article to tone it down as much as humanly possible and still present GAR for what she is. She really is a conspiracy theorist, and openly talks about the conspiracy in her own book. She really is a home economics professor. Her scholarship is lampooned by anyone who bothers to review her books. The article is more neutral now, so I hope it passes the NPOV test - if not, tell me how to fix it. GAR is extremely important in the KJO world. Her book basically split the KJO world into two camps - the "textual" KJO who advocate a return to the Textus Receptus, and the "conspiracy" KJO who see modern Bibles as a way to undermine Christianity. Her book is more or less an epoch marker for this split, just as the Wilkinson book is an epoch marker for the "good" and "bad" Greek texts, an issue which never came up in earlier times. Scott1329m 12:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• This entire article is garbage. It's got "James White follower" pasted all over it. White, who got his 'degree' from a strip mall is the last person to be bringing up academic credentials and that goes for his followers as well like the person who wrote this article. And who cares what somebody's degree is in. No where in the Bible does it say only degreed academics can write about the Bible and manuscript issues. And all that bit about a woman teaching in church is presented as if all churches and denominations read that in the same way. When Riplinger gives a lecture in a church she seems to be aware she is not a pastor giving a sermon. Riplinger puts the fear of the Lord in the Alexandrians who have been pushing the devil's corrupted manuscripts since their atheist and spiritualist leaders in the 19th century gave them the order to do it. They've been exposed in a big way for the first time by Riplinger's book. This is why 'Jesuit James' White flew into his rage when it first came out. He'd been lulled into thinking his side would have no opposition. Sorry, but God's elect will oppose you, and we'll do it until the return of our King. Go tell your father the devil this. He won't be surprised. He's run into us before. 75.26.195.210 07:24, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite

I'm going to try to do a complete rewrite of this article. At the moment most (if not all) of it comes directly from this website. --DearPrudence 03:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I have now rewritten the entire article; most of the information had to be removed because it was taken directly from this website (or this one; they both contain the same information). I have also removed the image, as it is apparently copyrighted. --DearPrudence 06:49, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I am Gail Riplinger. I am an academic (retired University professor). I just discovered the slanderous articles on this site. It appears that religious extremists, who find themselves unable to discuss the concrete linguistic aspects of my books, have taken to outright nonsense and slander. There are no sentences in the current or historical articles that contain a shread of accuracy (e.g. I have never taught Home Economics. This and other bald errors lead me to conclude that the article's author confused me with several other people (I would hate to think that anyone would make up things, but the venomous tenor of the article could lead to that conclusion). Such distortions are beneath the level of this fine and useful encyclopedia. The picture is copywritten and must be removed also.

The following is a brief vita which should replace the current articles immediately.

Gail Riplinger has B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. degrees and has done additional postgraduate study at Harvard and Cornell Universities. As a university professor, with graduate faculty status, the author taught seventeen different courses, served as department chair, and was selected for the Honor Society’s teaching award and membership in a national Education Honorary. Riplinger is in several editions of Who’s Who.

Riplinger is also the author of numerous books on linguistics. Early on a serious investigation into the cognitive processes blossomed into a college textbook (accepted for publication by Prentice Hall). In 1993 the book, New Age Bible Versions, became an international best seller (over 200,000 in print). For it the author was honored with a Doctorate from Hyles-Anderson College. It has been used as a textbook in scores of colleges. Permission has been requested and granted to publish and translate the book into Korean, Japanese, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, and portions in several European languages. Three years teaching English as a second language provided the foundation for another textbook, The Language of the King James Bible.

The most recent textbook, In Awe of Thy Word, is a tome of 1,200 pages. It developed as a result of a lifelong study of language and cognitive behavior, that is, how the mind perceives, receives and retrieves information, particularly words and their semantic sense. Background coursework in acoustics and sound at Harvard University, a minor in history, and coursework in advertising (with research in semantics) merged to add an original and interesting perspective. Glowing reviews by Dr.John Hinton Ph.D., graduate of Harvard University, Dr. James Sightler, graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Polly Powell, retired professor from Clemson University, and others are available at http://www.avpublications.com/avnew/testimonies.html

Riplinger participated in a team which created an award winning hospital for cognitively impaired children, and was invitation by President Reagan’s Citizens Ambassador Program to join a team of U.S. doctors and architects to share research abroad. Riplinger was recently invited to join President Bush, the Vice-President, and Mrs.Elizabeth Dole and others for a meeting and dinner party. Debbieandjim 05:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for clearing up some points, but the article will need proper citations for any of the information you mentioned to be included. I will add the vital information you wrote as long as I can find references for it. --DearPrudence 05:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)