Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "Fox News Furious After School Bans The Bible" video.

  1. If you're going to ban a book for sexual content (including incest, having a husband sent into a dangerous battle to be killed--because the King had gotten that man's wife pregnant), or mass murder (of men, women, children, cattle, etc.; leave none alive!), or depictions of practicing witchcraft (as Saul had ordered for himself, after he had already banned witchcraft for everyone else); or a book about a god (The God) wanting to destroy all humanity because they were annoying him by asking for food and water in the desert, or killing all humanity because God had let his lecherous angels impregnate mortal women (and those women gave birth to incredibly sinful people).... I could keep going for a very long time. The Bible is messed up, man. It's storytelling as it was popular circa five thousand years ago, to a race of people that was enslaved over and over--apparently because they kept making their God blind with rage, because of their selfishness, ignorance, close-mindedness, and cruelty. The Bible's heroes aren't very heroic at all: The guy God named "Israel" tricked his brother out of his birthright, just because Esau was hungry, then lied to his blind father in order to trick him too, all because his mother thought it would be a good idea. Nowhere in it does the Bible depict anything like what Fox or its ilk would call "Christian family values." But it does show what the actual family values are like. The Bible is brutal in its portrayal of humanity, never pulling any punches. If anything, for that reason alone, I think the Bible should be taught. But it wouldn't happen that way, and the modern Christians would just use it to persecute everyone who isn't Christian--which, interestingly enough, is exactly what happened to the original Christians. Lions' pit, anyone?
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