"My point is that any parent or youth leader who thinks this material is too graphic, too mature for 13-16 year-olds isn't paying attention."
Disagree. I would not want "frank discussions" of teenage girls engaged in oral sex in my own Bible, let alone a thirteen year old's. The examples cited in this article are more than enough to indict Zondervan for publishing this garbage.
When I work with children at AWANA's who are learning Bible verses, I would not want them to pull this version off of a shelf and come across this garbage either.
The notes contained in this Bible will not help parents who "bury their heads in the sand". It will even sneak into families who otherwise vigilantly guard their young children from being exposed to these explicit details of perversion.
Disagree. I would not want "frank discussions" of teenage girls engaged in oral sex in my own Bible, let alone a thirteen year old's. Would I want them to have those frank discussions? No, of course not.
Are they having them anyway? You're darn right they are. And it had darn well better be the church and the family that is out there shaping those opinions.
This book may not be the answer. I've said several times on this thread that I'm not endorsing it. And I'll not buy it becuase I don't have daughters. And of course it's not something you should just have sitting around on a shelf in the Sunday School class room. That's just silly.
But to just blanketly say that we shouldn't be having these discussions because they're "inappropriate" is just living in denial.
Wake up. Kids, yes even the "good Christian kids" are talking about and are doing this stuff. Yes, even the children whose parents "vigilantly guard" them from this perversion.
And shame on us if we refuse to talk to them about it because it makes us uncomfortable.