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Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit ‘obscene’ books in libraries
I heard there’s one book in there that talks about a pair of sisters who get their father drunk so they can take turns raping him. Are they banning that one?
wow, the bible is fucked up.
The Bible doesn't portray it as a good thing, and considers their descendants cursed.
A large portion of the Bible is: "here's all the ways people can be nasty, don't be like them".
edit: I seem to have missed the context of book bannings...
But do you know what it does portray as a good thing? Slavery!
Also no. It allowed servitude to pay off debts, but all debts were supposed to be forgiven after 7 years, and so it was strictly limited.
Where do you think the ideas that all humans are equal and deserve equal rights that reduced slavery in modern times come from?
Abraham had sex with his (wife’s) slave Hagar to produce Ishmael – and both Hagar and Ishmael were then exiled after Abraham was able to conceive with his wife and produce Isaac.
Certainly not the kind of values I’d want for my family.
Also treated by the Bible as something bad.
Can you point to the verse that condemns that behavior?
There's no specific verse condemning it explicitly, but the overall arc of Abraham's story is that whenever he tries to be "clever" and fulfill God's promise on his own there are bad consequences, in this case the soured relationship between Hagar and Sarah, the need of God's intervention to save his son from death in the desert, and the origin of yet another people that would later antagonize the Israelites, the Arabs.
So, like, it’s just your interpretation?
Not just mine, AFAIK it's the most common one.
I think you’re missing the point of this conversation a little bit buddy. Go back and read all of the comments you’ve replied to and see if you can figure out what you’re missing from the commentary.
I missed the context of banning books?