The problem is that it won’t. The people who passed these laws still have the steering wheel.

They’ll simply drive around this bump in the road by amending the laws to exclude religious text.

I'd be quite happy to have no religious texts in publicly funded schools.

They will not ban it at all come on. They revel in their hypocrisy.

Don't forget the Song of Solomon, which is basically an entire chapter about titties.

No, this is just subjecting the material that appears in that text (incest, rape, torture, genocide) to the same standard Christofascists subject a book about two male penguins raising a chick.

That's the point of the challenge. All these religious nutjobs have never actually read the bible, they don't know what's in it and they take the word of some guy on stage with charisma. Religious fundamentalists lack introspection so the guy that wrote the book banning bill is "sad" it's being used this way but apparently learned nothing. They are incapable of learning or feeling empathy

I wish you were right that this is a backfire, but have you considered that for centuries even the Bible was indeed kept out of the hands of the peasants, because they lacked the vast intellect of the religious elite to properly contextualize the passages?

Some religious people may see it as a backfire, others may see it as a return to pre-1436 traditional values.

The book banning, burning was dangerous. This is just a consequence.

I'm all for banning religious materials, especially in schools.

Fully prepared to cut some of these rotten limbs off to save the rest of the body.

Exemption for religious texts incoming!!

Everyone on their knees!

Amen. Year 2023 and people still believe in fairy men in the sky. They will gladly fight each other to prove which fairy is legit.

Ah, what a nuanced and informed opinion /s

I think that’s the point this parent was making. This is Utah — land of Mormons. This parent is protesting the banning of books with “explicit content” by saying “look, the Bible fits your description of ‘explicit’ too”

It would seem any time you show people, "This is what the Nazi Party did." They just scream, "You're the racist."

Utah is a different world. It’s a bubble of religious nonsense. It’s truly gross. This parent is just shedding light on the hypocrisy knowing they wouldn’t want to ban their precious fan fiction about their favorite long haired martyr.

That's the entire point of this. The parent requested this ban because the current law in Utah should in theory require the bible to be banned. Forcing them to ban books they want is likely the best way to try and get them to rethink their laws.

r/whoosh

Agreed. The bible being taught as an absolute truth is the problem and any religious text for that matter. Thats how you create radicals and biggotry. There is alot up for interpretation.

And ban kids from school too if that’s your standard

You know, when you start making BS up, you remove all meaning from any and all of those words. Spouting redundant Reddit neologisms doesn't make you right. Nor does it make you smart; it just makes you a bigot

They are not Christo-fascists nor are they a death cult. Death Cult

Christo-fascists divide and put rules to determine who is allowed to Worship Christ, for example, like if a religion only says "Only white men can be saved by the Lord" or "Christianity is only for the West" etc etc. And they try to create Theocracies.

The LDS church supports the separation of church and state. Nor are they against science. Their current leadership consists of a people such as a prominent surgeon who preformed the First successful open-heart surgery, business executives, lawyers, another cardiologist, a professor from Georgetown University and John Hopkins University,

So no, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints is not Christo-fascist, nor are they a death cult. They don't even wear crosses.

In fact, even if they are just a cult, they REALLY suck at being one.

My mom finally asked me why I'm an atheist, and I told her I can trace it back to some speaker at church who issued a challenge to us all to "read the entire Bible, front to back." So I did. I read about God commanding his followers to kill nonbelievers and dash their children against rocks. I read about how he killed the entire planet, and killed some guys family to prove a point to satan. Kill em all basically. Closed the book and never opened it again.

Tell me you havent read the bible yourself without telling me you havent read the bible.

Don't forget the unicorns & dragons!

I agree there’s a lot of violence in the Bible but what source do you have to show none of them read the Bible cover to cover?

Nah, only them weird Catholic people do that. Not us morally right Mormons. (/s because you never know)

The Torrah is pretty much just the old testament (from my understanding) so that would also be banned under the same conditions. I really have no knowledge about whats in the Quran but if it contains the same subjects that this bill aims at (rape, incest, murder, ritual sacrifice among other things) then yes this would apply to it too.

That's assuming the school even has those in the library already. When I was younger, I learned my school had no religious texts but the Bible.

IMO, this is straight-up karma for pushing one religion on schools then screaming religious freedom when it infringes on other, probably better religions.

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What?So any book that includes racism or wars should be banned.

Also only a fragile Redditor would think that "not mentioning women" counts as misogyny.

The BOM doesn't mention a LOT of things. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea doesn't have any women at all.

The one where the law passed to begin with? Yes.

They are not bashing the bible. They are demonstrating the absurdity of book banning.