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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

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.

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.

corsicanguppy ,

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

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?

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?”

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 ,
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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.

veganpizza69 ,
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Excellent

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 ,
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this is such a big chungus pog moment, wholesome 100

a_muiruri ,

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

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