Cardinal slaps a content warning on the BIBLE because of its ‘themes of sexual violence and abuse’

[Sexton Blake]

A university named in honour of one of England’s greatest religious thinkers has issued a content warning for the Bible.

Newman University, Birmingham, UK, tells students studying the holy book that the module ‘includes themes of sexual violence and abuse – in images and biblical texts’.

Certain passages are flagged up as especially problematic, including a chapter of 2 Samuel in the Old Testament, about David, the King of Israel who had previously slain Goliath.

The passage, marked ‘SV’ to denote sexual violence, tells of David’s adulterous affair with Bathsheba and the role he played in the death of her husband Uriah the Hittite.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10555441/University-named-cardinal-John-Henry-Newman-slaps-content-warning-BIBLE.html

 

Just the merest tip of the iceberg, of a book which has 1,310 verses of violence and cruelty:

 

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html

 

As well as slavery, racism, homophobia, anti-family, etc as well as a lot of just plain hatred, war and murder.

 

If it were not a religious book, the bible would be banned.