Saturday, May 17, 2014

Are Holy Books Appropriate for School? Can They Be Made Age Appropriate?



We have rules in the United States that a child can bring their religious books to school and read them if they have spare time.  I support this right, but recently I wonder if I should not support it, because I wonder if we are being honest with ourselves when we allow the Bible or many of the other holy books in schools. 
Many Christians monitor what their children read closely and want books like Harry Potter and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn banned. Of course we do not allow children to bring Playboy to school because of the adult content.  What would parents really think about the contents of the book below if they did not know these sentences came from the Bible?   
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These were the spoils which remained of the plunder taken by the fighting men: 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and as for persons, 32,000 young women who had had no intercourse with a man.
When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by his privates, you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.

“Look, I have two daughters, virgins both of them. Let me bring them out to you and you could do what you like with them. But do nothing to these men because they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
Then because of the dire straits to which you will be reduced when your enemy besieges you, you will eat your own children, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord has given you.

Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.

Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also.

You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.

. . . he pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose organ has been cut off may become a member of the Assembly of God.

Whoever utters the name of the Lord must be put to death. The whole community must stone him, whether alien or native. If he utters the name, he must be put to death.

And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, “Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.”

Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

If some of the town worships other gods:  Put the entire town to the TORCH, livestock included, as a burnt offering to the LORD your God.  

When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.  If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.  

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.  

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace.  If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor.  But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.  When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.  But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock and other plunder.

If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father.  Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.

If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.

Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst.  And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, WOMEN RAVISHED; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city.   

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be RIPPED UP.

Because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

And when he hath MADE HER to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.  (God required abortion)

Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 

So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
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If you have read all of these sentences from the Bible, what age would you think this book is acceptable for schools?  3rd grade?  6th grade?  11th grade?  Perhaps college?  Not at all?

Harry Potter and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn don’t look so bad now, do they!

(Taken from www,Evilbible.com, www.biblegateway.com, www.skepticsannotatedbible.com)

1 comment:

  1. Excellent topic. I strongly suggest that holy books should be introduced in schools and colleges. They will be proved a great thing in developing individuals with good sense of moral and better understanding of what is right and what is wrong.

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    Brano
    Church Supply Store

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