Could you protest introducing the Bible in schools, not on the basis

[auburngrad82]

of separation of church and state, but on the basis that the Bible is full of sex and violence and lying and cheating and kids should not be exposed to it?

A few examples:

Genesis 19 Lot offers to give his daughters to a crowd of men who want to rape the men who are spending the night with Lot's family.
Genesis 19 Lot's daughters get him drunk and sleep with him and get pregnant.
Twice in Genesis Abraham passes Sarah off as his sister rather than his wife.
Genesis 25 Jacob screwed his brother out of his father's blessing by disguising himself as his brother to fool his blind father.
Genesis 38 Judah tells his son Onan to screw his dead brother's wife so she can have kids. He "spills his seed on the ground" and God strikes him dead. Then the daughter in law dresses as a prostitute and Judah screws her and gets her pregnant. When he finds out she's pregnant he tries to have her stoned but she has his seal and he doesn't want Wifey to find out he impregnated the daughter in law.

These are all in the first book of the Bible. Would you want your kids exposed to this kind of reading?

[CBGLuthier]

1. the only problem with that is

The Gideons tend to pass out New Testament only.

There may be a little violence but nothing like the OT.

[Monkeyman]

5. Yep they do

The far right wants only King James Bibles in the Schools and other places . Sorry not my bible

[flyingfysh]

8. not much violence in the NT?

Check Revelation.

[LostinVA]

2. The Bible was banned in a school district in NC for those reasons

That's been probably 20 years ago, the specific case I'm thinking of.

[madinmaryland]

3. You would have a harder time of that, than the issue of separation

of church and state. That to me is the real issue.

[Selatius]

4. Using that angle, yes, yes you can

Schools can and have banned books from the curriculum in the past because parents called in to complain about the content of those books.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. sex and lies and cheating and violence...

is not a good reason to keep it out of schools.

[hpot]

7. Ken's Guide to the Bible

http://www.amazon.com/Kens-Guide-Bible-Ken-Smith/dp/0922233179/sr=8-5/qid=1157745825/ref=pd_bbs_5/104-6919013-5573531?ie=UTF8&s=books

[TlalocW]

9. Genesis 19

Is often used by the fundies to argue against homosexuality - as in that's the reason God destroyed Sodom and Gammorah, but the actual Hebrew text concerning the incident can be used as "have relations with" (a common translation) but is more commonly used for just "talk to," and the meaning didn't really start to change over to the have relations with translation until the 1800s I think.

Anyway, I just thought I'd let you in on that.

TlalocW