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Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible

As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

a_muiruri ,

Just a few passages doesn’t even begin to describe it: Source

BonesOfTheMoon ,

Reddit for all of its faults and hideous admin team always did have a marvellous sense of humour. Only thing I miss about it.

jackpot ,
@jackpot@lemmy.ml avatar

this is such a big chungus pog moment, wholesome 100

veganpizza69 ,
@veganpizza69@lemmy.world avatar

Excellent

yuriy ,

there shouldn’t be a fucking bible in a school library anyway, that’s so bonkers. is there also a torah and a quran? BET FUCKING NOT.

gummybootpiloot ,

Idk what libraries you go to but the ones I know have most religious books

yuriy ,

my public highschool library did not feature any religious texts, the regular library has plenty though.

theangryseal ,

When I was a kid I remember checking out a book from my elementary school library. My brain tells me it was called “Tales of Terror” but I haven’t found anything close with that title. It had butterflies killing people in swarms, rats eating human flesh. It was nuts.

Well, my people found the book. They claimed they could “feel the demons crawling from the book” when they opened it. Half my damn family went to the school and went off about it.

This comment brought that memory back for me because I remember one of them saying, “you got this filth in here but ya ain’t got the bi-buhl?!?”

I’d love to see that book again, if only to see if it was truly as horrible as I remember.

cristo ,

There should be a bible, along with every other religious text they can get their hands on. The problem arises when they ONLY have bibles in the library

Violette ,

And put them in the “fiction” part

CertifiedBlackGuy ,

Most relegate them to “religious texts” to take the easy way out ¯_(ツ)_/¯

MyFairJulia ,
@MyFairJulia@lemmy.world avatar

Well you see, the quran teaches evil and radicalizes children (teaches rules, changing between positive and negative tone, kinda outdated but some generic stuff still applies today) while the bible teaches us how god loves us (teaching overlapping with the quran, different writing though and yahwee is definitely not nice)

Widowmaker_Best_Girl ,

Nah fuck that noise. Banning books from libraries is dumb

saltynuts420 ,

imho libraries shouldnt have any religious books , if you want to read them either buy it yourself or go to the temple/ mosque / church / synagogue … and I am writing this as a religious person myself

lud ,

I disagree.

Libraries contain books people want to read.
People want to read religious books.
Libraries should contain religious books.

Libraries should please the reading needs for as many people as possible.

And I am not religious in the slightest.

Btw libraries are a very useful resource for research.

CertifiedBlackGuy ,

I actually disagree as an atheist. I’m fine with religious books being in a library as long as all religious texts are relegated to the same area and no single religion is given preferential treatment.

They are a part of our culture and history, whether we want it to be or not.

torpak ,

Reddit against religion. Hand me the popcorn.

jasparagus ,

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b9b38114-11f2-4055-ac16-eec4d0a93a1f.gif

intelati ,

“Where do I sign up?”

spikespaz ,

Can people please respect others’ religions? Please? There’s a lot of hate in these comments and it makes me really sad to see this frequently on Lemmy.

IGameShit ,

What do you expect from a predominantly left-wing social media platform? Respect isn’t in their nature. Being a centralist means seeing both sides of hypocrisy, and whoo boy does the left show a lot more.

NickNak ,

They wouldn’t dare call out Islam for something like this or worse :\

jernej ,

I don’t really see it as hypocrasy. While people reporting it are most likely against religion, why woudn’t religious text be a part of the nudity ban?

megalodon ,

Respect is earned

spikespaz ,

Respect is a word that is used in multiple contexts.

megalodon ,

So?

corsicanguppy ,

Has someone started reading the other source books? They can’t be perfectly clean either.

elevenfingerfrk ,

Judges:19 where a guy throws his side piece to a crowd that wants to rape him in hopes they’ll be satisfied with raping her instead.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

TIL a concubine is a side piece. Somehow that never connected before.

creamed_eels ,

Deuteronomy 28:53-57, where you eat the flesh of your own children seems kinda indecent

kromem ,

Less indecent if it’s remnant from the days of a famine.

A mistake a lot of people make in analyzing the text is in assuming the official story about its origin, contents, and authorship is correct outside supernatural stuff.

But there’s actually a compelling case Noah was originally a story about escaping a famine, so there may well have been a period when eating the flesh of one’s children was a part of the ancestral history of the people transmitting the stories.

The Geeks have similar stories.

It may well be that Deuteronomy 28:48-57 isn’t a warning about a certain future event, but a warning from similar things having happened many times before.

Eating your family because an army whose language you don’t even know is sieging your city and you are all starving is probably just a fairly common part of many generations of history around the world during those times.

There’s much worse things in the Bible than likely representative history.

creamed_eels ,

Fair, but you’re looking at it from a good faith perspective that examines the spirit of the “law” for want of a better term, rather than the literal meaning of it, as I did. That was a deliberate glibness on my part because I wanted to examine and interpret it in the same way that the bible apologists and literalists do in order to cherry pick passages in the bible to further their hateful idiot agenda. You can find and interpret both support and condemnation in the bible for anything, often in the same passage depending on who’s reading it. Thanks for the interesting link!

sceada ,

The Geeks have similar stories.

I’m sure they do, especially in their D&D Campaigns.

GiddyGap ,

Or pretty much all of Song of Solomon.

Example (Song of Solomon 7:6‭-‬9):

How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights! Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth.

Rolando_Cueva ,

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!!

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

As they should.

HellAwaits ,

Based

wowsa ,

Ah time to quote from Eziekel 23:20…

reverendsteveii ,

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil…wait…23:20? Oh. Well nevermind then.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Now I kinda want to hear Sam Jackson say “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”

Also, why the need to specify a distinction between donkey genitals and horse semen? Do horses or donkeys have bigger cocks? Do horses or donkeys cum more? I don’t know, but whoever wrote that passage into the Bible seemed to know.

reverendsteveii ,

Is it a donkey thats an infertile crossbreed of a horse and a mule, or is it a mule that’s an infertile crossbreed of a horse and a donkey? I can’t remember off the top of my head but that feels like it could affect the…ahem… emissions

squirmy_wormy ,

Mules be the cross breed and infertile ones

reverendsteveii ,

Oh, well in that case I retract this line of reasoning entirely. Thank you.

SpaceCowboy ,
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I think it’s a mule that’s an infertile cross between a donkey and a horse.

But we need to also consider that horses were significantly smaller back in those days. People will often say a pony is a smaller breed of horse, but it’s actually more accurate to say a horse is a larger breed of a pony. They bred them to be bigger over the years since that made them able to carry more weight.

So was the Biblical passage saying “well she wasn’t so depraved to want the much larger horse cock, she was at least demure enough to only want donkey cock”? Or was horse cock smaller in those days so was it saying “horse cock wasn’t big enough for her, she desired men with the much larger donkey cock”?

This may have serious theological ramifications and needs more research.

reverendsteveii ,

How many angels can dance on the head of a horse cock?

Seudo ,

Same size cocks but donkey are smaller so they look bigger. In those days a flaccid bee-dick was the mark of a cool-headed thinking man; clearly capable of controlling their profane lust.

And it’s not that the average horse smell worse than a donkey, their ass is just closer to most people’s nose.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Ok, so I think we’ve settled the theological debate around the relative size of of horse cock vs. donkey cock.

What about the relative quantity of their emissions?

vladmech ,

RIP to my browser history. It looks like it scales with size but donkeys on average are 100-200 mL and horses are more in the 200-400mL. So, you know, up to a can of soda worth worth…

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Your service to the internet is mildly appreciated!

I just read the whole chapter. It’s all just ancient porn. But there’s a plot hole… So Oholah and Oholibah (the one that liked donkey dick) were sisters, both prostitutes. Oholah is raped and killed by Assyrians. But then later Oholah makes an appearance in the bondage gang bang scene with the drunkards from the desert? WTF, 50 shades of grey is better written that this. Well maybe that’s going too far, but still this is badly written porn.

But I liked this part:

14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

My girl Oholibah hitting up dudes on ancient day Tinder.

mrgreyeyes ,

Is that the one with Donkeys and Stallions? Hot stuff.

Tronn4 ,

Bueno

Zyban ,

As a Christian person, people hate the truth. They don’t want nothing to learn what is the truth. Even Christian person also hate the truth and ending up the pastor to jail for something he did not commit. Its only aboutgettingr rid of him.

cedarmesa , (edited )
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💀

Efwis ,

The problem is the question of where is the proof of your beliefs. Most Christian’s tout that the Bible is the truth yet no one can prove the “truth” of the Bible. It’s always a case of “look around you see the blues skies and the trees and the flowers etc. that does not prove god is real, nor does it prove he isn’t.

The fact of the matter is what you want to believe is the truth, the inherit problem is that most Christian’s believe they have to push their beliefs on others whether they want it or not. It even gets as far as stating if you are a specific religion,such as Methodist, baptist etc, you’re not a true believer.

I have found in my 50+ years of living that most people are hateful if you don believe exactly what they do.

IGameShit ,

You can say the same about the radical side of the LGBT community.

HiddenLayer5 ,

There is a common anecdote about the divide between what is considered the truth in science and religion: An evolutionary biologist and a creationist are in a debate. The moderator asks what would need to happen for them to abandon their beliefs. The evolutionary biologist lists the main pillars of the evolution theory and the formation of life, and that if they are disproved or found contradictory in a credible and replicable way, backed up by other scholars in the field, then they would have no choice but to accept that they were wrong. The creationist simply says “nothing, I know in my heart that it’s the truth because God is all powerful and would never lie to me.”

Efwis ,

Hence the paradoxical challenge

dipshit ,

You sound like you’re on your way to being incarcerated for touching children without their consent. Please stop touching children without their consent.

Nastybutler ,

Children can’t give consent. So don’t touch children inappropriately ever.

dipshit ,

This

spuncertv ,

I wouldn’t have a problem if people like you could just mind your own business, but you spend your time rambling incoherently about some “truth”. The only truth about Christians is that they are being manipulated by a group of nutcase fascists.

elevenfingerfrk ,

Found the pastor that likes to diddle little kids 😬

Riyosha_Namae ,

What truth is that?

tkk13909 ,

Bro what is this grammar?

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