(Sorry Opinionated, you inspired this q)
2007-06-27 10:11:45 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no.
2007-06-27 10:15:18 · answer #1 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
When the kids start to sneak Bibles into bed with them to read at night with a flashlight. Then you might have a point. Most of the stories are not very graphic in their details. I see much worse behavior on Prime time TV, than what goes on in the Bible. Most of what you detractors like to talk about as being offensive is history. History is what it is and just because some revisionists try to change it they are usually just fiction writers. I think that most of the kids beginning at 3 or 4 can handle 95% of the Bible.
2007-06-27 17:22:01 · answer #2 · answered by Future Citizen of Forvik 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because the stories are frightening for children. Kids shouldn't read about drowning people around an ark, fire and brimstone, and an invisible monster that wants to lure people to a fiery pit of demons. Even Sunday Schools pick and choose which verses to read and which stories to tell. Could you imagine a Sunday School lesson about the sheep being separated from the goats, and then the goats being flung in a lake of fire? It would cause them more nightmares than a horror movie.
2007-06-27 17:21:10 · answer #3 · answered by razzthedestroyer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why?
Certainly, Torah relates stories of war, hate, adultery, etc.
But it also explains stories of heroism, love, sacrifice for something greater.
All of these stories are about us, the human race.
And they are stories to learn how to act honestly and ethically in a world that seems very corrupt.
If ALL you get out of Scripture is the negative, then you missed the point.
Perhaps you don't have time to study or, you choose to live in ignorance.
That's okay - as God gave us free will to choose.
So, let me leave you with a little story to sum it all up for you:
A young antagonist approached the famous Rabbi Hillel and requested that he teach him the whole of the Torah while he stood on one foot.
Hillel responded:
“What is hateful to yourself, do not do to your neighbor.
That is the whole Torah.
All the rest is commentary.
Now go and study."
2007-06-27 17:25:56 · answer #4 · answered by docscholl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps we could strike a deal - sex and violence on TV and Movies can never be censored if lewd and violent acts of equal vulgarity can be found in the Bible. Meaning if they can say it in the bible, it can be shown on TV.
See:
Hosea 13:16 (NIV)
Malachi 2:3 (KJV)
Ezekiel 23:19-20
and that passage 2 Kings where the she bears kill 42 kids.
2007-06-27 17:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say that, but I do know that a lot of churches will keep Bibles with the Song of Solomon away from anyone under a certain age (depending upon the church).
-B
2007-06-27 17:17:25 · answer #6 · answered by The Brian 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They certainly should. It is filling an innocent child's head with all kinds of superstitious nonsense, much of it very frightening and disgusting, before the child is old enough to understand or even think about it on their own.
2007-06-27 17:23:27 · answer #7 · answered by Woody 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No God wants all of us to read it even to the point of studying it and memorizing it.
Diane
2007-06-27 23:15:49 · answer #8 · answered by Diane L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Bible does so should every other religious doctrine. Don't discriminate against one religion.
2007-06-27 17:16:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
YES YES YES YES YES
I wouldn't want my kids reading that crap... then again, I don't have any- but that's beside the point! I'd rather catch my kid reading Maxim than the Bible.
2007-06-27 17:19:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sure, why not? Mine has one that says "The bible is myth-information"
2007-06-27 17:29:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋