Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
In the wake of the Duggar sex scandal, it's worth pointing out that the Bible has a lot to say about sex and violence among other things like rape, violence, and obediance to God and parents. So I'm wondering if Christianity isn't largely responsible for sexual abuse in churches and by clergy since the Bible mentions that rather a lot. Also in the Bible is incest as seems to have happened in the Duggar home though in limited fashion.
Yet the Bible is always thought of as something that's G-rated for how we encourage young children to read it and incorporate its teachings into their daily lives. But what happens if they absorb something about Lot's daughters both getting pregnant by him (Gen 19:36) then their father suggests they have to submit to him sexually?
Religion has been misused to commit heinous crimes for millenia. And Christianity is often the basis for sexual abuse here in the US. From 60s "Jesus freak" cults like Children of God (now called Family International,) to the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal still coming to light, to the most recent evangelical homeschooling sex abuse accounts.
So shouldn't the Bible be 'R' rated or even 'X' (for pro-incest, pro-murder-in-the-name-of-God, pro-slavery, pro-infanticide, etc.?) And if it condones many things that would get a non-religious movie an R or even X-rating, why do we continue to indoctrinate children with it?
My opinion is the Bible is what you'd use of your intent was to abuse children and people. It contains things that if they appeared in a government pamphlet would cause a media frenzy covering it, death threat, and firebombings at whereever it was published. Yet because the Bible's been unbiquitos and institutionalized, like the ancient Greek pederasty practice we tolerate, condone, and encourage it's proliferation.
Yet the Bible is always thought of as something that's G-rated for how we encourage young children to read it and incorporate its teachings into their daily lives. But what happens if they absorb something about Lot's daughters both getting pregnant by him (Gen 19:36) then their father suggests they have to submit to him sexually?
Religion has been misused to commit heinous crimes for millenia. And Christianity is often the basis for sexual abuse here in the US. From 60s "Jesus freak" cults like Children of God (now called Family International,) to the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal still coming to light, to the most recent evangelical homeschooling sex abuse accounts.
So shouldn't the Bible be 'R' rated or even 'X' (for pro-incest, pro-murder-in-the-name-of-God, pro-slavery, pro-infanticide, etc.?) And if it condones many things that would get a non-religious movie an R or even X-rating, why do we continue to indoctrinate children with it?
My opinion is the Bible is what you'd use of your intent was to abuse children and people. It contains things that if they appeared in a government pamphlet would cause a media frenzy covering it, death threat, and firebombings at whereever it was published. Yet because the Bible's been unbiquitos and institutionalized, like the ancient Greek pederasty practice we tolerate, condone, and encourage it's proliferation.
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