As a child I read the whole of the Old Testament, and my book report would make a strong case for banning it, or at least giving a strong parental advisory. Adultery, genocide, it does not make family-friendly reading.
Replies
Not forgetting the rape, incest, and cannibalism.
aug 28, 2025, 11:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Haha. Same!
aug 28, 2025, 7:40 pm • 16 0 • view
If only it’d ended after Genesis. That bit is amazing and I don’t mean the band.
aug 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't forget trading foreskins for a wife...it's full of fun little bits like that!
aug 28, 2025, 10:26 pm • 4 0 • view
I dont like reading the bible. Pain in the arse reading those small paragraphs and chapters. I prefer my fiction novels without all that shit. So yer ban the bible because its a pain in the arse and scattery!
aug 29, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
The incest got me.
aug 29, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
That why they had those little Sunday school cards with Jesus, angels, children & lambs (all snow white) to deflect from OT freaky drama & violence.
aug 28, 2025, 10:31 pm • 2 0 • view
It's relevance comes from addressing societal issues that haven't changed since the cultivation of seeds. My favorite is addressing charlatans that live off the sheep through preaching. Drive through the Old South and the highways are lined with churches with preachers hustling for tithes.
aug 29, 2025, 1:43 am • 3 0 • view
We've written better books before and since then. The bible has always been utter trash.
aug 29, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
That was ultimately your parents responsibility and has nothing to do with the context of the bible, nice try.
aug 28, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Same. That, along with college, helped me deconstruct organized religion and ultimately walk away from it.
aug 29, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I would propose a dividing of the Bible into E for everyone and 18+ for mature readers for both the OT and NT. Chunks of the OT are really insightful and good, I’m a big fan of Job and Ecclesiastes specifically, but parts of it, you simply need to have the historical context for, need to have a
aug 28, 2025, 11:07 pm • 2 0 • view
I agree about Job and Ecclesiastes (in the King James version) just for the language.
aug 29, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
reader to guide you through. Like, how do you read Leviticus without someone explaining the historical context of the customary rules? How does it make even a LICK of sense?
aug 28, 2025, 11:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Spot on
aug 29, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
That part
aug 29, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view