Should the bible be banned or censored or R-rated due to its violence and gratuitous sexual content?

[Anonymous]

Rape, slavery, murder, genocide, size queens, incest, songs objectifying women you name it, it's all in the bible. It's more violent than any video game and has more sex in it than the mainstream tv& films. Think about how this book influences young minds encouraging them in Sunday schools to commit deplorable acts of violence and unspeakable sexual acts.

Yes

No

Burn her she's a witch!!!

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+1 y

So we all agree

[AngelLily]

If you banned the Bible for showing humanity what humanity is like then band every other books in the world and also the news and all documentaries also the I
never seen a song in the Bible that objectified women sexual songs are discourage also where does it encourage said stuff because I'm pretty shore many people where put to death for doing said evil acts during the Bible days also what are you even getting this bull from?

[Anonymous]

Ban it for sure. It has no place in the 21st century, it's a relic of the bronze and iron ages.

[Poormanscomedian]

When you disobey God there is punishment. Like you for example , you deny God and he will punish you with eternity in Hell. By the by, you won't like it there.

[Opinion Owner]

@Poormanscomedian written by patriarchal jack asses who feared their wives running off with big dicked Africans

[Paris13]

Not The Bible Here, dear, Tis The Word of God... Maybe the Quran. xx

[Asker]

Have you read it cover to cover?

[LogicBomber]

The Christian bible is just as hate-filled and evil as the Quran.

Deuteronomy 25:11-1: If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.

Exodus 21: 7-8: When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again."

Samuel 15:3: "the Lord Almighty says... 'Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' "

“I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” (1 Timothy 2:12)

“Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” (Psalm 137:9)

To name a very few.

[House5plusforth]

I think to keep the even level for the belief in the bible to be some what true it should have a rated level to those classes of kids that is not in that kind of study form as a rated class level with certain age group to gain a better understanding how the bible clicks with todays way we live our living LIFE.

[MrKinktastic]

I don’t think any book should be banned really, I think pointing out how idiotic the passages can be like this is a much better option. It’s not a credible source of information in any way shape or form, it’s just pretty poems and some old fabricated stories.

[ladsin]

Do we put R-ratings on books? I've read a lot of books and I don't recall any of them having a rating like that.

[House5plusforth]

R rated would be to high there's no boobs or nakedness in the bible unless you explain in detail what is and what is not on as one tell the bible story

[ladsin]

@House5plusforth I’m not sure I understand. R-ratings aren’t solely about overt sexual themes. Even if they were the Bible has some, ie Ezekiel 23 “20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled”

[House5plusforth]

Even though those words are like that it's up to the preach who reads or explain the wording to keep it under a mature manner when reading it out loud to there Saint's.

[ladsin]

@House5plusforth I don't understand what your point is. The question is whether or not the bible should be censored or rated-r due to content. I said that I didn't think we put "r" ratings on books.

You responded that there was not sexually explicit material in the Bible and I demonstrated that to not be the case. Now you're talking about preachers and sermons. You have to clarify your thinking for me.

[House5plusforth]

Mi , fault is that what you want to hear.

[ladsin]

@House5plusforth I'm guessing that English isn't your first language, it's probably just a language barrier. No worries. Have a good day!

[House5plusforth]

you can read and I have read things different. By the way born in the States and still learning my own language.

[wankiam]

so in the adam and eve story didn't it just go on about eating the forbidden fruit... i mean if it said adam got a boner and then went on to graphicallly describe him fucking eve that would be gratuitous but to me the bible paints a picture that is to be decyphered as you wish... as for violence we should maybe censor the news too?

[Asker]

How about the men with dicks as big as donkeys who cum as much as horses.

[wankiam]

sorry but i can't remember being taught about that in Sunday school when i was a kid ;)

[Asker]

Yeah they left the size matters evidence from the bronze age out strangely.

[wankiam]

along with dinosaurs... doesn't the bible suggest we have only existed for 6000 years?

[wankiam]

Evolution v creationism thoughts? ↗

[Asker]

Maybe civilisation but I doubt that too.

[Poormanscomedian]

In the beginning , Adam And Eve were just companions , maybe they "Breed" like you see animals do. I mean they would have to reproduce to keep human race going. Eating the Apple caused lust and curiosity , then it wasn't just sex and reproduction , but an abuse of the way they had sex. Other words it wasn't just that time of the month anymore , it was all the time.

[wankiam]

@Poormanscomedian also when told the story as a child i wasn't informed that they and/or their children must have indulged in incest

[Asker]

Read you bible.
Genesis 19: 36-38
36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[g]; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[h]; he is the father of the Ammonites[i] of today.

[wankiam]

sorry, i must have been too busy trying to find the explaination as to why most modern humans carry the genes of neanderthals so i missed that bit lol

[Asker]

Because we interbred with them

[wankiam]

i know that but the bible ignores their existance

[Asker]

But does it?

[wankiam]

well surely it teaches that man was created by god 6000years ago and before that there was nothing which is why i asked that question about evolution and creationism and how it applies to religions

[Asker]

Non-humans are mentioned many times in the bible.

[wankiam]

not before humans existed they aren... thats why so mant creationists see science and the evidence of dinasaurs as a hoax. you should click on the link to that question i posted

[Asker]

Homo-sapiens are 315,000 years old, Neanderthals are 400,000 years old.
Other humans species may have lived in biblical times. Civilisation is only 10,000 years old, it's possible small groups of Neanderthals and denovians as well as giants though dying out were still around. In the bible these other people's to the ancient Israelites could have been just other tribes and nations.

[wankiam]

you do know im an athiest and totally understand the theory of evolution dont you?

[Asker]

I'm not talking about evolution. There was a point in time when we shared this planet with other humans and civilisation may be older than we think.

[wankiam]

many would read the book and totally disagree. i would say you are free to believe what you like but so is everyone else

[Asker]

I only aknowledge the possibility of it, I think there's more to history than we know. The bible is mostly a history book, one of the oldest.

[wankiam]

i always saw it as a book of moral teaching than being based in historical fact but again thats personal... i would say though that first editions were 200years after jesus and given most people had no means of recording stuff a lot of it surely has to be seen to be fiction. thats the conclusion i came to anyway.

[Asker]

Well there's Hebrew texts left out of the old testament like the book of Enoch.

[wankiam]

when i was a kid i have to say the old testament was the more believable part of the book but again its not like they had samrt phones and youtube so im happy to think we will never know... one things clear, he has been awfully quiet for a long time if he does exist

[Asker]

We might find out eventually. There are lost civilisations lost around the coasts after the end of the ice age when the climate changed or swallowed by the Sahara. Still so much to discover in Egypt.

[wankiam]

yeah but those discoveries yet to be made will most likely support the view of science than anything else so again this is more about if science can be made to fit into the notion of a deity

[Asker]

Well im open to the possibility

[House5plusforth]

that would be, us the Giants that cums as much as Horse back riders, buddy.

[House5plusforth]

The news is censor already before the news comes on you T. V or even when there playing it if the view is much to stand the News anchor people tell you that Some sense that there showing may be immature for younger VIEWERS and then they put it at the bottom of there screen.

[wankiam]

@House5plusforth mate do me a favour and post this on your own responce to the asker coz i keep getting notifications on a conversation i was done with last weeks... thanks

[House5plusforth]

I'm just getting to them sorry

[Poormanscomedian]

The bible does not say this. The first one is when the three Angels came to visit Sodom and the homosexuals wanted them for sex and Lott Offered his daughter. The bible mentions Lott , not He , Him, or The Man. So , I know this is fake. The bible also said those who add to or take away from the world of God be cast in the lake of fire. So, I hope you don't die tonight.

[Asker]

So you would offer your daughter to be raped to save your own ass?

[Poormanscomedian]

He offered her so the Angels would not be raped. He knew they would decline because they were gay. It bought them some time.

[bill_towers]

In another Story a Dude killed His son to lrove His loyalty to God. Kinda fucked Up.

[Poormanscomedian]

Why don't you use your real ID or are you not willing to back your words up?

[Asker]

Poormanscomedian when you say The bible does not say this. What do you mean?

[Poormanscomedian]

@bill_towers No he didn't, see you don't know what you are talking about. That was Abraham offering Isaac as a sacrifice to show he loved God more. God Stopped him. It was a test. If you are going to be critical of the bible , you need to read it.

[Poormanscomedian]

It gives names not him , he or them. King James is the correct bible to use. Not these made up versions. You have taken it out of context to distort it. Because you can't make your point without doing so. Is this Miss Manson?

[Asker]

The king James bible is basically the Catholic bible, it was the Catholics who created the bible, decided what went into the bible and edited the bible. The orginal bible was in hebrew, greek and latin so the king James bible is not the correct bible.
~Not Miss Manson.

[Poormanscomedian]

No, wrong. The bible was created from scrolls. The Catholics have their own bible or version contradicts the King James Bible. You are so wrong with what you saying that Paul would have sued you for slander.

[Poormanscomedian]

Have the courage and tell me your ID here.

[bill_towers]

@poormanscomedian it's Not about Courage, the Person wants to stay anonymous, everyones own free xhoice

[Poormanscomedian]

@bill_towers Coward, I am answering with my name , she should to.

[bill_towers]

Well then that's where the convo ends for me, have fun believing in a fantasy

[Asker]

Not wrong the bible was created by the Catholic church when they decided to gather together all the hebrew scrolls and all the gospels into one religious doctrine, decide what Christian doctrine was cannon and what was heretical and edit those scrolls and ommitt certain gospels and Hebrew scrolls. For instance the book of Enoch, jubilee & The Book of Giants is not in the bible as well as The Gospel Of The Ebionites, The Gospel Of The Nazarenes, The Gospel Of Philip, The Gospel Of Truth, The Gospel Of The Savior, The Infancy Gospel Of Thomas, The Gospel Of Peter, The Gospel Of Thomas.
The Catholic church brought together all Hebrew and Christian scriptures, Pope Damasus I's Council of Rome in 382 decided what scriptures went into the bible you read today and what most Christians believe today was decided in AD 325 by the Catholic church at Nicene council. You know "We believe in on holy apostolic and Catholic church ".
The king James bible is just a redited bible of the same Catholic bible with no significant differences.

[jacquesvol]

If the full Bible was a movie, it would certainly get an R-rating.

[Asker]

That would be an awesome movie

[jacquesvol]

Full of killings, rapes, incest, genocides: dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/.../...bible.html

[House5plusforth]

It's a movie here in the States and it's rated -R

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

No way. The Bible is mostly a negative book. You don't have to go far into reading it to see a brother murder his brother in Genesis.

Humans did a lot of bad stuff and God punished a whole lot of people too for it.

[Asker]

Yeah but some of those people are revered Patriarchs

[Poormanscomedian]

And Cain was punished

[Asker]

@Poormanscomedian was lot?

[Poormanscomedian]

Lott? Why would he be? He did what he had to do. Again , Lott knew they would reject his offer , but it made them think about it. I mean an Ass is an Ass and a mouth is a mouth. Also , women were treated differently then. Lott didn't want to do it , they were banging on the doors.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

@asker: No one revered them.

[Asker]

@Poormanscomedian I meant Lot banging his daughters

[LogicBomber]

No books should be banned regardless of how bullshit or graphic they are.
Should people stop taking it as a truth when it's obviously a fiction? YES.

[Poormanscomedian]

Won't be seeing you in the here after.

[DaisyOpal]

You know, as for the Old Testament laws about killing prostitutes, marrying your rapist, et cetera, I honestly believe that Jesus took all that away after His death.

[Phanta]

Why are you showcasing the most objectionable passages out of context and ignoring the rest? Talk about being childish.

[Asker]

Why do you cherry pick the bible without ever reading it cover to cover.

[Phanta]

YOU HAVE THE WRONG PERSON Say that to someone else. Childish.

[Asker]

It's my question so don't be childish and rude.

[Phanta]

But I'm much much older than you, and you should respect your elders. And you were falsely accusing me of cherry picking the Bible, when I've read it from cover to cover three times over. And you're judging me although you know nothing about me.

[Asker]

Your older than me so you should read the bible.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

[Miristheiss]

Didn't Hitler ban and burn books.
Banning books. Opened minded, rational people are always for that.
Oh wait, no. The opposite is true.

[Miristheiss]

I guess it just goes to show you, you have to read it all and you can't just cherry pick certain things and then say you've encapsulated the message. That is just what lazy people do.

John 8: 7-11

So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up [i]and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go [k]and sin no more.”

Mark 12: 29-31
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 5: 43-45
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

[Miristheiss]

I guess it just goes to show you, you have to read it all and you can't just cherry pick certain things and then say you've encapsulated the message. That is just what lazy people do.

Luke 10: 25-37

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[a]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

[genericname85]

it should be banned for delusive nonsense XD but for all i care banning it for that reason is fine too ^^

[BeHappy1985]

100% sure no one reads the bible.

[Gavyn]

Well you'd be wrong.

[Asker]

@Gavyn he's right. Few Christians have actually read the bible cover to cover and cherry pick certain verses that sound nice.
Never have I heard of a sermon that mentions donkey dick.

[Gavyn]

That's not important in this case. He said nobody reads it, not that nobody has read it cover-to-cover. The first statement is absolutely false as I know plenty of people who read their Bible regularly. The second statement would be false as well, as I know SEVERAL people who've read the Bible cover-to-cover, some of them multiple times.

[Gavyn]

Generalizing 500,000,000 people is never a good idea, let alone 8,000,000,000.

[Asker]

@Gavyn that explains all the incest in the bible belt lol

[BeHappy1985]

@Gavyn are you the single soul who decided to read that fairytale front to back? Or who are you speaking for?

[BeHappy1985]

@Gavyn Typical bible has 1,189 chapters. These are made up of 31,173 verses and using a rough word count, this amounts to 807,370 words, although the King James Authorized Bible has 783,137 words. Using a standard font, the average bible has around 1,200 pages.

[Gavyn]

My step-father, one of my religious teachers, two of my childhood friends, and others that I'm 90% sure did as well.

[BeHappy1985]

@Gavyn They all lied to you just like the Bible does.

[BeHappy1985]

@Gavyn

[Gavyn]

That's pretty rash and short-sighted. They did not lie, as literally all of them have extensive knowledge of the Bible to back up their claims.

[BeHappy1985]

@Gavyn if they had extensive knowledge of the bible they wouldn't bother reading it in the first place

[Poormanscomedian]

I do and have , and I even pray, can you believe it?

[BeHappy1985]

@Poormanscomedian no, catholics are a bunch of liars. All y'all don't even care because once a week you go to confess and all is forgiven xD.. the audacity..

[OfDeath]

Yeah. The Quran is even worse.

[Poormanscomedian]

There is no comparison between the bible and Quran . The bible says witness and if they reject the word , move on. The Quran tells you to kill them if they don't become Muslim.

[Poormanscomedian]

The bible says don't break bread with them and Quran says kill them

[isayboo]

Very creative. Did you think of this in your head? Bc muslims certainly dont force conversion. How would you know the Quran offer explicit content? It's in Arabic.

[Asker]

@isayboo actually that true. Muslims actually tolerated Christians, Jews and other religious groups at a time when Christians were executing a torturing the children of Christian converts.

[isayboo]

Alright I admit in history there were muslims who did that. But I'm saying in the Quran it doesn't say anywhere about killing them just because they don't convert.

[OfDeath]

@isayboo I can read arabic. I took it as a second language. I have read the Quran. It's a horrible example of the worst type of dogma.

[OfDeath]

Ever heard of Zoroastrianism? If not it might be because it was pretty much wiped out by an Islamic crusade.
Just as many sub groups of Christianity were wiped out from the middle east forcefully by Islam.

[OfDeath]

@isayboo you might want to go back and read it again.

[isayboo]

I think you missed the part of where I said I admit in history muslims did do such thing. Iqra please.

[isayboo]

You thinking that the Quran is dogma is an opinion. That doesn't mean what I said isn't wrong. Force conversion is not right

[Asker]

Was zoarathism not dimished by a lack of followers after the Arabs rose up against them?

[isayboo]

Lol you do realize there are some good and bad muslims right? Just like there are good and bad Christians.

[Poormanscomedian]

@isayboo I just said what their book says. I am sure a lot of them don't read theirs like so called Christians have never read the bible.

[bill_towers]

Yes, the Same with Qoran and Tora, Ban Them

[name_is_eric]

It should be a good lesson on how vile it is.

[Anonymous]

The Bible is Pure Evil!!!

[Poormanscomedian]

you must have graduated the top of your class in Satan's college.

[Opinion Owner]

@Poormanscomedian No, I just prefer common sense, science and rational thinking to fairy tales and stories about a sadistic, ego maniacal "God."