Utah School District Bans the Bible.
Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools 'due to vulgarity or violence'.
The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children.
And the Book of Mormon could be next.
On Friday, a complaint was submitted about the signature scripture of the predominant faith in Utah, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. A copy of the complaint obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through a public records request shows that the parent noted the Bible contains instances of incest, prostitution, and rape.
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I don’t think that portions of the Bible are appropriate for young children, especially specific, gruesome passages in the Old Testament. I’d probably be okay with it in middle school on up.
It gave me nightmares as a young child and negatively impacted my mental health in other ways. If we don’t let kids watch violent movies, we probably shouldn’t let them read extremely violent passages of the Bible which contain other adult themes. Some of it is bad enough for a PG-13 rating at least, I would think.
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Fire burn and caldron bubble.
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My son and I read portions of it when we stayed in a hotel during a vacation. We giggled quite a bit. Fun times.
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
First Kings 11:3 states that Solomon "had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines."
Joshua (son of Nun) slaughtered entire cities.
Lot's daughters raped him while he was passed out from drinking.
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Thats not even hyperbole about the Bible. It does indeed have a lot NON family friendly content.
When I was 12 Grandma gave me ...my own copy of Bible for Xmas.
Sometime later when I was alone I ...cracked it at some random point. It happened to be at a passage that was both violent and sexual in a way that...Im sorry to say...was rather arousing. Had to lock myself in the bathroom.
However the Book of Mormon, from what I have heard, is rather clean. Like a badly written version of the Hobbit. Pure magical fantasy ...set in a fantasy world. But unlike Tolkien ...its a fantasy that pretends to be true! Lol! So I am not sure one could make a case for banning it for the same reasons as the Bible.
Moses orders in Numbers 31:17-18:
1 Samuel 15:1-3:
Gross stuff about virginity and rape in Deuteronomy 22:
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
When I was 12 Grandma gave me ...my own copy of Bible for Xmas.
Sometime later when I was alone I ...cracked it at some random point. It happened to be at a passage that was both violent and sexual in a way that...Im sorry to say...was rather arousing. Had to lock myself in the bathroom.
However the Book of Mormon, from what I have heard, is rather clean. Like a badly written version of the Hobbit. Pure magical fantasy ...set in a fantasy world. But unlike Tolkien ...its a fantasy that pretends to be true! Lol! So I am not sure one could make a case for banning it for the same reasons as the Bible.
It’s VERY badly written. John Smith was a poor writer who was inspired by the language of the KJV Bible. He repeats different phrases ad nauseam. It’s hysterical. There’s obvious racism in it, too.
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
I think I'll give it a hard pass based on your reviews.
I like the Song of Solomon. Erotic poetry is always nice. There are nice passages in Psalms, and Revelations is cool in a trippy kind of way.
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
I think I'll give it a hard pass based on your reviews.
I like the Song of Solomon. Erotic poetry is always nice. There are nice passages in Psalms, and Revelations is cool in a trippy kind of way.
What about Noah? Boring?
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
I think I'll give it a hard pass based on your reviews.
I like the Song of Solomon. Erotic poetry is always nice. There are nice passages in Psalms, and Revelations is cool in a trippy kind of way.
What about Noah? Boring?
I’m not a fan, but I was raised with the idea that the Flood and Noah’s ark were factual accounts. The story was largely inspired by local flood myths and The Epic of Gilgamesh. Anyway, I just find it too cringey based on my background to think about Noah too much. JWs have their own spin on it, too, which is also cringey.
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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
It's also problematic since little kids know it's supposedly true, and that millions of people shape their whole lives around following it. There's a certain degree of psychological abuse inherent to that. A children's Bible, sure, but the real Bible? It sounds so terrifying.
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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