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Parent Calls Bible ‘PORN’ and Demands Utah School District Remove It From Libraries

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by orangeblue_coop, Mar 25, 2023.

  1. homer

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    Not a big deal. If you want a Bible in your school library attend a Christian school.

    The parents can have a Bible in their home, go to the library, or attend a church. Just like the other partners can take their kids to the library to look at any banned school books.

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  2. duggers_dad

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    I don’t see what Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option could possibly hurt.
     
  3. l_boy

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    Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.
     
  4. GatorJMDZ

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    That's your remedy for banning books from school libraries? Take your kids someplace else to read them? Shook your damn head too hard, me thinks.
     
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  5. l_boy

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    I guess the ultimate solution is no school libraries.
     
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  6. homer

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    It’s my remedy if there’s a banned book I want my child to read.

    What’s yours under the same circumstances?
     
  7. phatGator

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    Sorry to disappoint you, but I think your interpretations are not correct. If you look at the entire pericope, this section of Ezekiel, what’s being presented is an allegory for Israel’s relationship with God.

    Israel had treated their God the way a wife treats her husband when she goes off and plays the prostitute. The passage is not meant to be titillating. It is meant to be disgusting.

    Would you find it exciting if your wife went whoring with other men? I doubt it. God was disgusted by their idolatry, and gave us this image to understand Israel’s abhorrent behavior.
     
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  8. BigCypressGator1981

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    I think the point is we don’t need to ban any books including the Bible.
     
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  9. phatGator

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    Your interpretation reminds me of the 1999 two-part series Noah’s Ark (3.7/10 on IMDB). Noah pals around with Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah until those cities are destroyed, and then they part ways. After the flood happens, Lot leads a band of pirates and attacks the ark.
     
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  10. l_boy

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    So depictions of sex books are ok, for school children, as long as the depiction is sex is disgusting, and not exciting or pleasurable?
     
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  11. Sohogator

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    That’s a pretty good Christian spin. Not buying it for a minute.
     
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  12. phatGator

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    No.
     
  13. BigCypressGator1981

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    None of this sounds particularly suitable for children. Not that I’m a whack job that wants to start banning books.
     
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  14. Sohogator

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    Exactly porn and sexual titillation has a long tradition in great literature. The Bible OTOH is not great literature and has disgusting porn. But I wouldn’t ban it. Good parents should be able to guide their kids away from reading it until say their late teens, but if not none of my concern.
     
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  15. jjgator55

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    That’s the other edge of a two edge sword. These things like book banning can cut both ways.
     
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  16. l_boy

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    So of all the ways to demonstrate one’s disgust and disappointment for another, the most logical is an example of a wife, who becomes a whore.
     
  17. phatGator

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    I think you might be in a minority with that opinion. Even the famous atheist, Richard Dawkins, has this to say about the Bible as literature:
     
  18. jjgator55

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  19. ursidman

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    If you say so. I respect your knowledge of the Bible. Point is though hardly a suitable book for grade schoolers.
    It’s obvious the writers of the Bible needed plain writing courses.
     
  20. defensewinschampionships

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    Ive Never seen that before - that is a really good analysis of both books
     
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