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By your reasoning, The Diary of Anne Frank GLORIFIES Nazis and GLORIFIES the Holocaust. Hey, it's in the book!
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Some good points, but The Book of Job is AWESOME - truly incredible stuff.No, not really, other than the story of Lot and the Angels, but many feel this is a mis-translation, that the real sins of Sodom was their refusal to welcome stangers, which basically sentenced them to death in the desert. The "intercourse" they asked for was to speak to the strangers to determine if they were to be welcomed or not.
The only time sex is mentioned as a sin is the 7th Commandment, which is the sin of adultery. Which somehow right wing Christians have taken to mean "If a man has sex with a woman who is engaged or married, this is adultery, but if a man who is married has sex with a single woman, it's not adultery.
Yes Christian religions have twisted the Bible into prohibiting all kinds of sex that neither God nor Jesus ever mentioned: premarital sex, homosexual sex. They claim masturbation is wrong because of Onan, but Onan's sin wasn't masturbation, it was disobeying God's order to impregnant his brother's widow, not masturbation.
One of the reasons why the invention of the printing press triggered the Great Reformation, was that people were able to read the Bible for themselves, and come up with their own interpretations of what it said, instead of following whatever the Catholic Church decreed be taught.
Mainstream Christianity, in this day and age, at least, is far to focussed on women's sexual sins, and not nearly focussed enough on the "Love one another as I have loved you" aspect, or "Treat others as you would like to be treated".
They also miss out on that whole "Judge not lest you be judged", and completely miss the second part of Jesus' admonition, which is whatever punishment you wish on others, will be visited on you.
And let's be honest here, who really wants to read about the trials of Job? And why would God do that to a man who loved him? Pustules in the mouth?????
And it's been banned in Florida:
Illustrated Anne Frank book removed by Florida school
A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at Vero Beach High School...
Okay.
There's the thoughtful Sue I know.
I think they're doing one, the other, and/or both, depending.
Do you think the passage cited from Lawn Boy is glorifying anal sex?
Does The Godfather glorify violence and depravity?
I think it's very complicated - art, great literature and life - and that events may be, and often are, both debased and admired therein.
^ My thoughtful reply to your thoughtful inquiry.
Do you know what a ban even is, moron?And it's been banned in Florida:
Illustrated Anne Frank book removed by Florida school
A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at Vero Beach High School...
I don't think so.By your reasoning, The Diary of Anne Frank GLORIFIES Nazis and GLORIFIES the Holocaust.
See above.Hey, it's in the book!
Some good points, but The Book of Job is AWESOME - truly incredible stuff.
Though God is obviously being a sadistic/murderous/egotistical jerk...
I don't think so.
The most important book of the 20th century, it glorifies the human spirit through the life of one (arguably) ordinary young girl.
See above.
I'm not sure what that is.I got a call out thread for you.
See above.Go there.
Indeed.Certainly as many times as you have mentioned the Bible and "child rape", it's easy enough to find them.
Don't you?Don't you have Google?
INCREDIBLY disturbing glorification of child torture, and hero-makng of the torturer.Does the Diary of Ann Frank ever suggest killing jews in the name of Hitler was a good thing? One of the very first stories in the Bible is about God commanding Abraham to sacrifice his son and treats his willingness to do so in the name of God as a blessing that is rewarded with his line being the seed for the Israelites.
The 3 works - Frank's original diary, the film, and the GN based on the film - are all masterpieces.And it's been banned in Florida:
Illustrated Anne Frank book removed by Florida school
A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at Vero Beach High School...
Do you think these stories are GLORIFYING these things--or showing the horrendous consequences of sin?
Did she?Missed "a graphic novel based on..." didn't you?
Wow.....okay, ignoring your strawmen.
This thread will help you find answers:Where is there even child rape in the Bible?
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The thread is discussing school library bans.Do you know what a ban even is, moron?
Can you buy that book? Yes, yes you can.
Can you have that book at your house? Yes, yes you can.
WHAT A BAN.
An excellent theological distinction.God cannot and does not "murder" in the same way a child building a sand castle is not a bully for knocking that same sand castle down.
You're godless?I know it seems that way, when you're godless.
See my other replies. TIAIt mentions those things. That's not even your criteria for judging the Bible; you made many posts with many claims that the Bible includes "child rape". And yet, it's not there.
And of course poor Rivka.So you believe that adultery should be punished by stoning??? It's hard to figure out what you're saying here.
I think the story of Lot's Daughters is definitely glorifying incest, or at the very least, condoning it. Their plan was a success. They both had children.
And of course poor Rivka.
The Bible and pedophilia go together like peas and carrots.
Really, the Jews in question (and I include Judas in this) were ultimately doing God's will to bring about the Salvation.The Bible has been used to justify every atrocity ever committed by man, including genocide, racism, and torture. Sins committed against heathens don't count.
You can't rape or murder other Christians, but the Aztecs, the Incas, the Cherokees, the Indonesians - none of those people are white or Christian. It's God's will you have dominion over them. The Pope gave dispensation. And Jews are always fair game because they killed Christ. Except they didn't, the Romans did, but there I go confusing the issue with facts.
