Should the bible have been forbidden? Interesting? This site has a list of books that have been forbidden by one authority or another. It does list the bible as being "forbidden" reading. Of course, we Ex-JW know the history of that! Don't we?
The Forbidden Library
by MsMcDucket 4 Replies latest social entertainment
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zeroday
ANY book that has a theist controling your life should be forbidden...Even the Bible...
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gaiagirl
I think that by reading about atrocities in the past, we can learn to not "go down that road" again. For that reason, I don't agree with any list "forbidding" certain books. Certain ideas are uplifting, others are not. Some ideas might sound like a good solution to some social problem, unless you already knew from reading historical events what happened the LAST time that particular idea was tried. For example, Germany experienced lots of unemployment and crime in the early 20th century. Many blamed the Jews, and eventually, those in power began to enact legislation against Jews, leading eventually to the Holocaust. Similarly, the Bible deals with horrible things as well, including genocide against Cannanites, etc, extreme punishment for what we would consider trivial offenses (picking up sticks on Sabbath, sassing ones parents), horrendous betrayals (David setting up one of his trusted men to be abandoned by the army so David can take that mans wife), and on and on. So, if we weren't allowed to read about these things, we might easily be seduced when someone tells us that THEY speak for God and God wants US to do similar things.
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MsMcDucket
Gaiagirl, someone on that site said, exactly, what you said; but it was about a different book. The page just talks about the history of people "trying" to censor some books.
I took this quote of the page:
"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! -of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."
-- Winston ChurchillSounds likes a two-faced religion that I once belonged to.
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greendawn
The Bible had been forbidden for the masses by the medieval catholic church and more recently by the communists. The OT may contain some violence but the NT is perfectly good and pacifist.