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slater
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The Banning of “Maus.” It’s Dumber Than You Think
because it's a particularly gnarly paragraph in the bible, according to my 2-second google search
FooBarBizBazz
on Feb 4, 2022
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It says something about our society that we're more willing to find obscenity in the Song of Solomon than we are in Genesis 34.
slater
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yes indeed, that a bronze-age book elicits anything other than pure ridicule is quite a... testament.
FooBarBizBazz
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I don't think people should reject it out of hand like that. It's one of the most influential texts of our society. It's worth knowing what actually is in it. Read the Quran too.
quantified
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Especially its rich supply of carefully phrased (KJV) sex and violence.
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