Utah School District Bans The Bible Over Accusation of Sexual and Violent Content
The latest book banning controversy was triggered by the complaint of a parent.
Author’s Note
I should disclose at the outset I am against book banning in any form. As a student of philosophy and culture, I will add I am not religious yet have read two translations of The Holy Bible. Yes, the tome is rife with sex and violence; that much, I believe, is inarguable.
The banning of books — and art by extension, which is largely based on one‘s personal definition — is to me nothing less than an attempted suppression of history, which includes both fiction and nonfiction works most often inspired, at least in part, by matters of the day.
Whether The Bible is the authentic word of God is for others to argue, though I have previously addressed my take on Medium. All I will offer presently in that regard is over centuries of human translation, as it would be with any other work, content is inevitably altered or even changed to the degree of bearing little or no resemblance to its original form.
Now comes word that The Bible, indeed, is the latest book to be banned in the U.S. over content deemed objectionable.
