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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 02:59 PM
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Could you protest introducing the Bible in schools, not on the basis
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of separation of church and state, but on the basis that the Bible is full of sex and violence and lying and cheating and kids should not be exposed to it?

A few examples:

Genesis 19 Lot offers to give his daughters to a crowd of men who want to rape the men who are spending the night with Lot's family.
Genesis 19 Lot's daughters get him drunk and sleep with him and get pregnant.
Twice in Genesis Abraham passes Sarah off as his sister rather than his wife.
Genesis 25 Jacob screwed his brother out of his father's blessing by disguising himself as his brother to fool his blind father.
Genesis 38 Judah tells his son Onan to screw his dead brother's wife so she can have kids. He "spills his seed on the ground" and God strikes him dead. Then the daughter in law dresses as a prostitute and Judah screws her and gets her pregnant. When he finds out she's pregnant he tries to have her stoned but she has his seal and he doesn't want Wifey to find out he impregnated the daughter in law.

These are all in the first book of the Bible. Would you want your kids exposed to this kind of reading?



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