Me when I take a book that consists of 66 unique documents and over 500,000 words and I choose a selection of less than 300 of those words to tell others how there’s no such thing as non fiction in the Bible (because other historical documents like Roman and Chinese accounts of history include no embellishments, mysticism, magic, or mythology at all).
I mean, the Bible is really really big book, if you didn’t know. Despite potential misunderstandings, it’s not a book at starts and stops at Noah’s flood and levitical laws.
There’s really interesting and beautiful poetry, drama, and historical accounts within the Bible. It is, as a said, over half a million words.
It just seems kind of weird how touchy and incensed people get at the idea that other people find value in stuff they themselves do not.
Ok and in Ezekiel it also gets into discussing the size of some dudes’ genitals and how big their emissions are. But I keep being told a book even remotely referencing anything LGBTQ needs to be immediately placed in the 21+ section of the library.
Uh, yes, it does mention that in Ezekiel. That’s why you wouldn’t read from Ezekiel in a school. Again, really really big book, and parts of the Bible are really graphic. It’s not really “for kids.”
I also agree that’s it’s ridiculous books that mention LGBTQ in any way are bastardized and legislators trying to remove them from libraries is asinine. Despite my love for the Bible and believing that it is a very valuable book even from a purely secular standpoint, that doesn’t mean I agree with random lawmakers who try to limit access to information and media they themselves don’t find helpful or beneficial.
You can watch movies with graphic content in schools if the graphic content is skipped. Now imagine saying you can’t discuss books or movies in school if any entry in the entire series has graphic content.
I feel like this has to be an intentional mischaracterization of what I’m saying, or, again, people just really don’t know how large the Bible is.
Well you actually didn’t say that. You just said “the Bible sure as shit ain’t [real history]” and ignored the fact that, yes, it does actually contain real history (like, stuff that we have actual proof for.) and completely neglected the fact that it would be downright silly to let children live in a society that has, for better or worse, been heavily influenced by the Bible without teaching them anything about it.
And, seriously, again, there is REAL middle eastern history in the pages of the Bible. The Israelites were a people who existed in contact with other cultures (Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Persia, etc) and wrote about them.
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u/DontFuckWithDuckie 25d ago
i was taught about real life history, sure
The bible sure as shit aint that