Should religious texts have warning labels on the front?
Curmudgeon
2012/08/21 13:28:11
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We put labels on everything else these days that is remotely harmful to people; cigarettes have nasty images, junk food has stats on how bad it is for you, and we have endless studies on how bad this and that is for you all the time.
Shouldn't the same apply to religious tenets which can end up running someone's life and into someone who follows them without question?
Shouldn't the same apply to religious tenets which can end up running someone's life and into someone who follows them without question?
I blame the men who created religions, gods, and were too inept to write scripture that was clear enough to avert the mess we are in with everyone and his dog disputing versions of tenets and forming sects.
Even the new testament is pretty horrific in places.
With that in mind, why wouldn't a critical thinker side with ideas that change as new evidence is discovered over a system of ideals that only ever seems to be interested in finding information to back up ideas that never change? lol
"... why wouldn't a critical thinker side with ideas that change..."? WOW!
I apologize for trying to have a serious discussion with you.
"Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness."
In what sense does that not apply to changing ideas?
Literature is about interpretation. And everyone interprets things differently. So something that potentially harms one person, can help another and vice-versa.
Genesis 19:32-35
King James Version (KJV)
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
What's your interpretation
We also forbid children to read DH Lawrence. >.> and various Cthulu books. Heck Dungeons and Dragons is STILL frowned upon in the USA.... and there are two books that cannot be sold to under 18's.
But, what I'm saying is, that if you put a warning label on one book, it'll have to be put on another, and another, and so on. So you may as well put one on them all, really.
We already do. Well...you guys already do in the US ^_^
O.o
Edit: I agree with you. However the bible is deserving of a warning label.