Posted on 06/02/2023 1:06:09 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
Now, the committee appointed by the district to review the complaint and decide if the Bible is appropriate for students to access has made its determination: High schools in Davis will keep the religious text on the shelf.
But it will be removed from elementary and middle schools for containing “vulgarity or violence.”
That decision on the book challenge — which gained national attention when it was first reported on in March — will take effect immediately, said Davis School District spokesperson Christopher Williams in an email to The Salt Lake Tribune this week.
He believes there are seven or eight elementaries and middle schools in the district that have copies of the Bible that will now be removed as the school year wraps up.
{Update: Reversing course, Utah lawmaker now supports Bible being banned from schools under law he wrote}
The scripture was first challenged in December by a parent who wrote in their complaint that they were frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries in recent months — with conservative groups across the country and in Utah taking aim at literature they call “inappropriate,” and which has particularly focused on books written about the LGBTQ community.
So the parent submitted their request for a review of the Bible, saying it was time to remove “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
And the Book of Mormon?
If I say that murder is violent; don’t do it.
Should I be banned for ‘violence’?
“Currently, Davis School District has other religious texts — including the Book of Mormon, Torah and Quran — available to check out without age restrictions. Those have not been challenged.”
How about the Koran & Mohammed’s 9 year old.
Looked up to see if Gideon Bibles are still in hotel and motel rooms.
“Today, Gideon International still does this by distributing Bibles and New Testaments to hotels, hospitals, medical offices, convalescent homes, domestic violence shelters, prisons, jails, and more.
Thought maybe Fifty Shades of Grey replaced them.
This is leading up to banning history books. There is more sordid tales in history than Adam and Eve being naked and Cain killing Able.
But THIS is OK?????
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The Torah consists of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Those are in the Bible which they are banning.
Also, some Koran passages say to confront the infidel and idolator and slay him if he can’t be converted to Islam.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle summary:
....claims that “nowhere in the Koran does it say to kill infidels.” This is untrue.
The Koran (translated by Dawood in Penguin Classics series) says, “When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them” (Sura 9:5). “When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads” (Sura 47:4). “Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate” (Sura 9:73). “The true believers fight for the cause of God, but the infidels fight for the devil. Fight then against the friends of Satan” (Sura 4:76). Who are these idolaters and unbelievers and infidels? Those who are not strict Muslims. “Muhammad is God’s Apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another” (Sura 48:29)
“But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans a portrayed in red, with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.”
—Ezekiel 23
Spoken of Israel in her wanton wandering, this seems like a good assessment of our modern world, too.
But whenever I've challenged them on it, they can't produce anything specific.
Mormonism is in no way, shape or form, Christian. In spite of their use of Jesus' name in their official, corporate logo.
That unholy abomination of a book should be banned from planet earth!
Well said.
They have been waiting for this payback since the beginning.
Once you start banning books, you have to expect this.
Seems like it. I think this book stuff was probably another uniparty trick to distract the base while they rob us blind.
I am not Mormon but I was interested enough to read the Book of Mormon and some other quasi-religious tracts. They would not likely be banned from schools for any violence or sexuality as they are mostly like the more boring portions of the OT where you have long sequences of generations etc etc.
As to their credibility, I was not blown away by any means, but I do like the concept of Jesus making other appearances to other groups of people in deep historical time, cannot see why that would contradict our scriptural understanding. I also feel some affinity for the idea of North America being like Israel as a chosen land for the faithful (and look what we’ve done with that opportunity, seems that we are repeating some of the mistakes made by the denizens of the other promised land many years ago).
One thing about Mormon theology which surprises me is that they never fully developed a Utah-based second coming scenario, there are places in western Missouri that are held to be significant for that, and enough disagreement that splinter Mormon groups now hold ownership of some of those sites. On that point, I would expect Utah to be more significant than Missouri but time will tell.
Of course there is the literal material in the Bible about the importance of Jerusalem but we are told about a new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven. That is probably a foundation of odd Mormon beliefs about other worlds, like Kolob, that are realms inhabited by angels, other humans, and Jesus.
I would not flat out say that Mormons are not Christians. That is really not up to us to say, it’s up to Jesus, and in many ways the LDS theology is very Jesus-based compared to some mainline Christian denominations (which are more O.T. Jehovah based). As they say, by their fruits shall ye know them, and on the whole, the Mormons have produced a fairly attractive culture compared to many others who say they are Christians, and certainly a lot better than many non-Christian alternatives.
Utah to me seems clean, prosperous, and to some extent friendly to outsiders, with a very good standard of public health. These issues where secular humanists go up against the Mormon-dominated (but not exclusively Mormon) cultural majority in Utah are strange to say the least. I suppose it’s mostly in the larger cities of the Wasatch Front region. Smaller towns in Utah give off a very conservative vibe.
I don’t know if I would go to Utah very much if not for the scenery, you can’t beat that aspect.
Agree. It's a how to book for destruction.
The Bible shows sinful human life the way it really is.
And over 109 parables covering death to the infidel, by smoting them on the neck.
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