Bible bashing
After the pornography
of Michaelangelo's David, comes the vulgarity and violence
of the King James Bible. I shit you not. A parent in Utah complained of its depravity, and the school district has removed it from elementary and middle schools.
Another parent, who opposes the removal, said: I can't think of what's in the Bible that you would have to take out of it. Its [sic] not like there's pictures in it
. Pornography doesn't require pictures though; pornographic literature is a thing, apparently. Didn't Onan spill his seed on the ground? How do you explain that to ikkle kiddy-winks? There's probably other shit going on in there too.
No, I'm not seriously advocating the Bible as a source of vulgarity and violence. Just having a laugh at a petty pissing match, and that one puritan's intellectual dwarfism can outweigh centuries of cultural acceptance in the land of the free.
Utah's Republican government passed a law in 2022 banning "pornographic or indecent" books from schools.
Max Matza, BBC News
And when you start banning books using vague criteria such as pornography
and indecency
, this is where you end up. (pipe)
I'd like to give our hero who launched the complaint the benefit of the doubt: that they're making a point by laying bare the logical foolishness of the legislation through reductio ad absurdum. Then again, Merka; so they might well be serious. (shrug)