@sh76 saidSong of Solomon 5:19:
The Bible doesn't approach the level of sexual content in accepted classics like The Scarlet Letter and To Kill a Mockingbird.
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
I don't care if this type of content is in schools but conservatives have no argument to keep the Bible while banning other books for sexual content or "pornography".
@sh76 said"Aside from all the killings, maimings, genocides the Bible is quite tame"
Aside from the death penalty for promiscuity part (and the OT has the death penalty for all kinds of things like carrying in the public domain on the Sabbath), there's nothing in the least objectionable about that by today's standards. Again notice the euphemisms rather than describing sex acts ("approached her" ).
You make not like the Bible for any number of reasons, but th ...[text shortened]... nothing in it that would be considered "pornographic" by today's standards. Not even close to close.
@sh76 saidFlorida banned a book about the life of Roberto Clemente.
Right. Spoken like people who have never actually read the Bible.
Except that the Bible never once graphically describes a single sex act. Like. Ever.
It uses euphemisms to describe sexual acts.
By today's standards, it's exceptionally clean.
@vivify saidi wish to join the fun as well:
Song of Solomon 5:19:
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
I don't care if this type of content is in schools but conservatives have no argument to keep the Bible while banning other books for sexual content or "pornography".
"2Kings 2:23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”
2Kings 2:24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.
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Except for the part where God kills 42 kids (4fuking2 🙂 ) because they catcalled an old man, the bible is quite tame.
If you want further fun, here is a religious nutjob trying to justify this story
https://versebyverseministry.org/bible-answers/why-did-elisha-kill-the-children
@wildgrass saidSome redneck state banned the works of art by Dali, Picasso and others
Florida banned a book about the life of Roberto Clemente.
@zahlanzi saidAnd we move the goalposts around... around and around...
i wish to join the fun as well:
"2Kings 2:23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”
2Kings 2:24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tor ...[text shortened]... justify this story
https://versebyverseministry.org/bible-answers/why-did-elisha-kill-the-children
The OP was specifically referring to "sex-ridden" content (read it... it's still there).
"If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity." (Deuteronomy 25:11-12)
Apart from the fact that a woman must be maimed if she dares help her husband in the wrong way (without a trial) the bible is quite tame
@sh76 saidOh I am so very sorry, i thought i mentioned the other great and wonderful things in the bible that would make it almost just as ban worthy as the most disgusting and dangerous book ever: two male penguins raising a baby penguin together
And we move the goalposts around... around and around...
The OP was specifically referring to "sex-ridden" content (read it... it's still there).
But if you think that pornography is the only reason these red fuks banned those books (I haven't read Maus but i doubt there is much porn there) sure we can keep the passages strictly porn related.
So what subject would you like a passage from? "Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide."?
You know what, I will surprise you
@sh76 saidIt's maybe tame depending on what you compare it to, but decidedly would be considered indecent under the law as written.
That's extremely tame stuff compared to what we see routinely today in books and TV. Maybe, maybe that's PG-13 stuff (or possibly just PG). It uses the euphemism "slept with" and doesn't describe a sex act at all. In the original Hebrew, it doesn't even use the word "semen" it uses "zerah" which translates to "seed," though I suppose that's neither here nor there.
Very tame stuff indeed.
That's the point. The laws were written vaguely to permit banning what ever books whatever politician in power decided he/she didn't like.
When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.” (Ezekiel 23:18-21)
That's a dear penthouse moment right there
@zahlanzi saidWhoops, you already posted this "very tame stuff"
When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. Th ...[text shortened]... om and pressed your young breasts.” (Ezekiel 23:18-21)
That's a dear penthouse moment right there
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing;
Apart from Lot offering his daughters to a mob for gang rape (it's even his own idea) the Bible is tame by today standards?