There are so many violent things in the Bible: polygomy, incest, and lot of very violent killing in God's name. Do we really read this stuff to kids?
2007-06-21 11:01:07 · 15 answers · asked by Alicia 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rated E for everybody. Yes, My kids read the bible and they understand things , that most kids do not understand, because they have the Spirit of God living inside of them.
2007-06-21 11:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
It depends on which part you're talking about. I wouldn't read certain stories to kids, like Genesis 38, or much of the Song of Songs, or Judges 20-22. But most of the Bible is good for anyone to read. I would say that teenagers can read the whole Bible. Young children should edit out certain parts. It should also be noted that if God inspired the Bible, it would have to be accurate and history is not always pretty, as anyone who's studied history knows. I would say most of it is G or PG. Some of it is PG13. None of it is any higher than that because there are no pictures. If there were pictures, then some of it would definitely be XXX.
2007-06-21 11:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by fuzz 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably R, though it would be possible to make an NC-17 version into a movie.
A movie version of the Bible would get an R rating right off the bat for all the nudity in the Garden of Eden scene. There is plenty of violence later on, but I don't think that would necessitate anything worse than R. What it ultimately comes down to is how the sex scenes are handled, and there it's a matter of the director's taste. Those could be done in 'R' fashion or 'NC-17' fashion.
2007-06-21 11:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by Minh 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh, you poor lil thing you; poor baby...aaahhhh.....so sweet and soooo nice. It will make you feel soo soooo much better to have someone lie to you - that bad, bad 'ol God telling the truth, ohhhh noooo...thats just horrible. aahhh...
That darn book; so what that its a record of both History and also obviously would include the people of the day, their customs, their laws, etc.. so what? The very least God could do is just whitewash it alittle bit; not EVERYTHING we hear needs to be the truth, right?
Hey, lets tell our kids that the stork REALLY does come, so that they never have to find out that women have babies...
ya know.....from "down t here" ...oh, oh, sorry that might make
you really upset.... God has no reason to tell us the truth - its not like HE SAID HE WOULD...oh yeah, he DID say he would. Well, still, doesn't He know about your sweet little
fragile sensabilities? He could have just said people were going to knit sweaters at the local knitting hall, instead of saying they were going to war - its just a widdle wite lie, right?
He could have told the writers to substitute "nanny" for those
men's second or third wives. And why not follow any of the scary old war stories with "but they lived happily ever after".
You poor lil thing - its mean to try to tell the truth to someone like you who obviously prefers those lies; they make you feel
sooo comfy and you can just believe the world is a very nice
place just like sesame street. Where the hell are all those
soothesayers when you need them? In case you never
read anything with an ounce of truth in it, thats a person who just whispers soothing words into your ear - just those nicety
nice things that people with their heads up their asses would
find palitable.
If Gods Word is a bit too racey for you, then the doctrine of
Antichrist should be just about right....just like little baby bear's porridge.
2007-06-21 11:45:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
That thing about chopping an infant in half was fairly gruesome. And the guy impregnating the slave in the presence of his wife cause she was barren would be a little weird, too. If a movie didnt gloss over such things im sure it would simply be banned altogether, people would refuse to show it, so it would never get a rating, but a weird cult following!
2007-06-21 11:23:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Books are hard to rate, because they are only as bad as your imagination and your understanding of what is printed. I would give the Bible about a PG to PG-13 rating. And you can take that to the bank!
2007-06-21 11:05:38 · answer #6 · answered by Presagio 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Parts would be NC 17, maybe X. If you know Hebrew Ruth has some steamy stuff...No, I don't read it to my kids, well, they're teen agers now so they would probably enjoy it.
2007-06-21 11:07:48 · answer #7 · answered by keri gee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
X b/c only a mature person can handle what it says.
(That includes kids too b/c some kids are a heck of a lot more mature than some grown ups.)
2007-06-21 11:08:11 · answer #8 · answered by Gir 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
NC17. Prostitution, incest, genital mutilation, children eaten by bears, killing first-born babies...
Of course 25 years ago it would have gotten an X, as would have "American Pie".
2007-06-21 11:03:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
NC-17, considering the incest, the adultery, the stoning, the violence, and the wrathful genocide by God.
2007-06-21 11:03:28 · answer #10 · answered by Integri 2 · 4⤊ 4⤋