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It's a "book of wisdom" like "She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse." Nothing sexual there...🤣
My real questions come from the idea of who has a kid that checks a Bible out from their school? If they are religious I would assume they have copies at church, and at home. (Also free on the internet, it's one of the few books easy to access)
So are we expecting that these kids are wanting to check the Bible out for a research project? Which wouldn't be allowed in most classes.. or that they can't afford lunch so they are reading about the suffering of Jesus and slaves when they otherwise would get lunch?
one of the honors-level English classes at my high school in Texas in the 90s was "the bible as literature". they had Bibles in the library for that class
KJV is kinda impossible to pirate. (it is in the public domain)
Doesn't need to be checked out to read it. I used to go to the public library and read for hours. Not in school, but the city library I mean. I could imagine a kid that doesn't want to go home or has free study periods reading books on their own.
Man I miss Carlin in these decaying times
"book of wisdom" my ass. Click this link a few times and see how often you end up with something truly wise, worthy of being the word of an omniscient god https://dailyverses.net/random-bible-verse
Edit: lol, my 6th time loading it I got this nugget of wisdom that all the Trump idolizing evangelicals are completely ignoring: "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." But I guess god loved the adulterer King David too so 🤷♂️ Yahweh's gonna yaweh.
Litterally rhe first one it gave me "Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back." Luke 6:30
The bible is woke communist propaganda!
My first one: "What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?" Matthew 16:26
Good words, but completely disregarded by the majority of so called Christians these days.
Yeah it’s partly why I gave up on it a long time ago. Besides faiths never really clicking with me on a fundamental level, shit like that, making no sense, caused me to abandon it.
It's unbelievable for how many people it does click but maybe they don't look at it closely.
What was it doing there in the first place?
I mean in an ideal world pretty much any book, including religious texts, would be available at the library.
Aren't school libraries typically a bit more resource constrained? I attended a smaller school though, so I don't have a perfect view of the norm.
I don't think any school would be hurting on donations of religious texts. In fact, I imagine most organized religions would love the opportunity to donate a book.
It's not gonna be hard to find bibles in Texas when they're beating people over the head with it so often.
So, does Texas had temporarily ban weapons? Edit:typo
Are the bookshelves empty yet?
Thankfully kids have cellphones these days and they can access The Internet Archive.
State senator Kevin Sparks called the district’s Bible ban “misguided” in a 19 December post on Instagram. “The Bible is not educationally unsuitable, sexually explicit, or pervasively vulgar, making its removal legally and morally indefensible. At a time when students seek guidance, the Bible provides a vital moral framework.”
Someone hasn't read it.
Hah I was going to make the same comment, but in response to this quote:
it is historically accurate, scientifically sound, and most importantly, life-changing.
And this is just some of the sexual stuff, I didn't even bother looking through all of the explicit violence:
Genesis 19:33
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
Genesis 38:8
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
2 Samuel 16:22
So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Ezekiel 23:18
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Deuteronomy 21:18
If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 22:28
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Judges 19:22
While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”
Not to mention the Song of Solomon
I've often wondered what kind of magic booze Lot's daughters had that would make the old man so blind drunk that he didn't recognize he was fucking his daughters, but still leave him able to get it up enough to do the deed.
Or, was the story just a coverup for the old pervert raping his daughters?
Nah I get it. I black out very, very easily when drunk, well before it causes any kind of impotence. My wife has more than a few times made comments about escapades I have no memory of.
Don't forget Ezekiel 23:20-21
She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.
Sure, but can you list 10 examples?
I didn't think so. Checkmate atheists.
/s
Sure, but that's only 10. You'll never be able to list 15. /s
50 Shades: the prequel
Check out Song of Solomon
If you trust that students are mature enough to read the Bible then you trust that they’re mature enough to read ANYTHING.
A symbol of team sports and nothing more.
He knows what he is talking about, imagine thinking that lessons about how to harvest non-believers foreskins is not something suitable for a children’s library
Lol. I came to post the exact same quote, wondering if he was smoking crack. Of course not. Our delusions condemn us.
As a Texan, this makes me happy.
I don't believe in book bans. If a kid can read it, they should. Will they agree with the message? Maybe, maybe not. However, they were exposed to different thoughts. This isn't a bad thing. It is up to the reader to determine how valid that line of thinking is in their life.
The bible.... whew, the bible.... Violence, sexuality, fucking incest, rape, etc. It isn't a "clean" book.
However, if they're gonna ban books for questionable material, the fucking bible is chock full of it.
I say this as someone who had southern baptist grandparents I spent the summer with, and have read the bible cover to cover more times than I ever cared to, but it was the only reading material available.
I wouldn't complain if they banned truly dangerous books... like Atlas Shrugged or anything written by a Republican politician.
Then you're exactly the same as the people who passed the book ban in the first place.
If your ideas cannot stand up to the existence of other ideas, then they aren't good ideas.
And if you can't take an obvious joke, then you're in the wrong part of the internet.
Lol
Really the only thing to say here. Reap what you sew, bitches.
Sow, not sew.
Just for the future.
Appreciated.
"Anyway, so I tore out the stitches and tried eating my pillowcase. It was so unpleasant; now I get why people say it ominously. Just as bad: now I'm gonna have to sew the seam shut again."
They reinstated it shortly after.
I'm glad they're doing it. Maybe it'll bring attention to the actual content of the Bible.
In their defense it’s a shit book full of lies and tomfoolery
Evens the score.
not by a long, long chalk