Utah School District Bans the Bible.

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I first learned about masturbation and tried it out for myself after reading about the evils of it in a Watchtower article for young people.

I felt SO guilty.

I used Playboy myself. ^
Do they have the same Editor?

Nah, it didn't say anything actually.
It wasn't even the naked ladies.
It was one of those little hand-drawn cartoons.

I could write and enquire about the other stuff though.
Maybe they could do a redaction.

Really? Dang. Times are tough.

I remember learning about some rather disturbing Bible stories at primary school. However, to give them credit - at least my school was consistent.

We also learnt about other disturbing books. My teacher covered a YA book aimed at teenagers and read it to us when we were ten. It was about a young boy who had intrusive thoughts about becoming his murderous abusive father. That was a rather intense book.

It does bring in to question what topics are appropriate for young children.

Granted, sometimes you try to teach something innocuous and it backfires. For instance, our school kept chickens to teach us about eggs and how certain animals develop.

Unfortunately, well, chickens have a tendency to be... opportunistic omnivores. Some turn to cannibalism. Which I discovered as a young kid when I was tasked with collecting them to show to the younger kids. I told the younger kids that the chickens couldn't come out today because they were tired and needed to sleep. I decided that was probably better than the truth. However, some kids pushed their way in and saw it. I redirected everyone else as best I could.

Amusingly enough, this happened with the fish as well. The school stuck a bunch of fish in a tank but clearly didn't do any research about the fish, because they all proceeded to eat each other. Well, aside from the fat one at the end.

~ It's the circle of life ~

I remember people telling me to behave certain ways because, they said, "It is in the Bible" or "Jesus said so".

Later, I would open my Bible and concordance, and try to find the passages they had cited.  Either they had taken the passages wholly out of context, or the passages themselves simply did not exist.

It amazes me how often people still say, "It is in the Bible" or "Jesus said so" to gaslight and guilt-trip others (especially children) into doing their bidding, no matter how many times it is pointed out to them that they are either mistaken or outright lying.

Morality can be taught through the greater society, as well as at home, and the Xian bible is not needed for it. Keep religion and bibles out of schools.

So Christians are banning the Bible and Mormons are banning the Book of Mormon? That doesn't make sense. Are they going to change religion or something?