As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

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[–] 363 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The Davis School District initially removed the Bible from school libraries after a review determined it did include "vulgar" content. But the school board unanimously reversed its decision after a review by an appeal committee determined the text has " significant, serious value for minors which outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains," the AP reported.

There's no hypocrisy here.

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  • [–] 264 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    A proprietary, for-profit version of Lemmy

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    [–] 106 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The Davis School District initially removed the Bible from school libraries after a review determined it did include "vulgar" content. But the school board unanimously reversed its decision after a review by an appeal committee determined the text has " significant, serious value for minors which outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains," the AP reported.

    Now to challenge the "significant, serious" value. Truth before law is based on facts, right?

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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That law is a complete waste of time. It's inevitable its going to be overturned (if theres at least a shred of common sense in the Virginia courts)

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    The majority of porn sites don't even bother trying to comply with laws like this and there's nothing state governments can do about it.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Yep, sites that wish to comply with the new regulation simply block traffic from those states. Search results for VPNs increase sharply for a few days and nothing really changes.

    Laws arn't that easy to pass, makes you think if that effort was put into something constructive instead of reinforcing that prohibition doesn't work...

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Less indecent if it's remnant from the days of a famine.

    A mistake a lot of people make in analyzing the text is in assuming the official story about its origin, contents, and authorship is correct outside supernatural stuff.

    But there's actually a compelling case Noah was originally a story about escaping a famine, so there may well have been a period when eating the flesh of one's children was a part of the ancestral history of the people transmitting the stories.

    The Geeks have similar stories.

    It may well be that Deuteronomy 28:48-57 isn't a warning about a certain future event, but a warning from similar things having happened many times before.

    Eating your family because an army whose language you don't even know is sieging your city and you are all starving is probably just a fairly common part of many generations of history around the world during those times.

    There's much worse things in the Bible than likely representative history.

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  • [–] 111 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Unfortunately not only is Reddit still chugging along, Lemmy is slowly losing users.

    Growing new communities is very hard and takes a long time.

    EDIT - Adding my source

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    It sucks to get to the end of social media. On Reddit I could always find plenty of posts with hundreds of comments and many were worth reading or replying to. Lemmy absolutely has good content and good comments, but you can get to the end where there's no more. It probably doesn't help that I've been much quicker to block people over the cut of their jib. I don't come here to argue or hate people more than I already do, so I spend a lot less time and words embroiled in pointless conflict.

    But I still haven't been back to Reddit and won't. When I get to the end of content I find myself going to TikTok or Instagram - two things that I've never liked but at least it's a stress free way to kill time, just louder.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!!

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Judges:19 where a guy throws his side piece to a crowd that wants to rape him in hopes they’ll be satisfied with raping her instead.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I miss Crazy Bible Stories on New grounds...

    So much drunken incest...

    https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/rip/372088

    Mirrors since they died awhile ago: Censored dong still makes me sad. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0nkyN_wsaTSNAQVlACFTg-br8pP1RooA

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah time to quote from Eziekel 23:20...

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil....wait...23:20? Oh. Well nevermind then.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Now I kinda want to hear Sam Jackson say "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."

    Also, why the need to specify a distinction between donkey genitals and horse semen? Do horses or donkeys have bigger cocks? Do horses or donkeys cum more? I don't know, but whoever wrote that passage into the Bible seemed to know.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    As they should.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago*

    Spez may be a hurensohn but at least Reddit users still have their heads screwed tight.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Has someone started reading the other source books? They can't be perfectly clean either.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Reddit against religion. Hand me the popcorn.

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