HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as "indecent" due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal.

A spokesperson for Hong Kong's Television and Entertainment Licensing authority (TELA) said it had received 838 complaints about the Bible by noon on Wednesday.

The complaints follow the launch of an anonymous Web site -- www.truthbible.net -- which said the holy book "made one tremble" given its sexual and violent content, including rape and incest.

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We don't allow children to buy porn mags or R rated movies for a reason... Surely this applies to all publications?

Then I guess Hong Kong needs to ban Anime and pretty much any Hollyweird or Kung Fu movie ever made *scratches head and walks away*

How about Anime porn!? That'll teach me turning the safe search off, on Google, while in an images search for simply, "Anime".
Myyyy Eyyyyes!

That's just wrong!
And the Bible shouldn't be banned for making one tremble,given its sexual and violent content, including rape and incest. The people that trembled, reading sexual and violent content, should be banned from buying Bibles! (jk) I imagine if that's titillating, they would implode reading the Kama Sutra!

I laughed when I saw this....lol....

Touche!

only difference anime etc is classified...parents know thats its not appropriate to show their small children this..

the bible on the other hand .. isnt classified.. when it should be

its host to some of the most violent stories around... kind of things we shouldnt be teaching our children...especially when it comes from a book that is so glorified in our culture.

I think it may also assist in realizing that with only 800 persons protesting the bible and wanting this classification applied to it, that that number is relatively minuscule in a region that has a population projected to reach 6,980,412 by July of this year.

I look forward to an update on this story.

its kinda funny ...remember when we were all kids and everything that had a rating on it ...was what we wanted to see or read or hear... ...so it might be a good thing to get more readers....sure is receiving alot of attention...

Even though I posted this article on the main page, I don't actually feel the bible should be censored. But, I don't think any books should be censored. HOWEVER, if "the powers that be" are going to censor them, then why should the bible be exempt from the same restrictions other books are susceptible to?

Excellent point. It's like they say, all publicity is good publicity. Now just imagine the retort in Hong Kong, by those that hold faith in the bible, their faith growing even stronger and the activist movement that could ensue , to respond and repeal the intentions of this censorship.

I agree, censorship is never a good thing. Often it's applied so people might remain comfortable in not having to be exposed to new thoughts. So they think it's a good thing to stop the right of access for everyone else, as well. I think it insults , as it seeks to hamper critical thinking and discretionary powers of articulate thought, to believe books can destroy a life, and so they should be stopped.

~Imagine the language police, with water guns drawn~ "You! On that library shelf! Come out with your pages up. Don't give us any trouble, or we'll censor your content!"

Or the Song of Solomon. --DJS

Because then you have an entire religion of people (Christianity) who would have to break the law merely to follow their beliefs. Children would have to hide their Bible's in public. Parents couldn't tell their children about what they believe without breaking the law. Church's wouldn't be allowed to have children enter. Pastors would be labeled "inappropriate." It wouldn't be good for Christians. I mean...I don't believe in Jihadist Islamic Militantism being taught to children, but I won't tell Muslims that the Koran is appropriate (even if it is). It comes down to what you believe. Many don't see the Bible as inappropriate because they correctly understand it. If you look at the Bible, and read it, you will see that there's nothing offensive or violent about it at all. The only big thing is that all Non-Christians are going to hell, and as far as the Bible is concerned, you chose that fate, and knew beforehand that it was coming. Even if you don't believe it.

No, we wouldn't. We would have adults free to read that material. Just not in the hands of innocent children who shouldn't have access to rape, incest or violent material. Is that really so bad to not let children read about rape and incest?



So stories of rape, incest, and murder are appropriate for children? What the hell?



Yeah, because there is no genocide, punishment of nonbelievers, hatred, slavery, rapes, baby killing or anything like that in there!

Genocide-In there, but not condoned.
Punishment of NB's-That's in there
Hatred- Not condoned
Slavery- Not condoned
Rapes- Not condoned
Baby Killing-Technically part of Genocide.

But you can't look at it that way..should we also stop children from watching the news, Actions shows, most movies, and reading history books? The Bible is a book of belief, where peace (not violence) is condoned. Kratos when you talk about the stories of rape and all that, you are looking at it as a Non-Believer, which (according to the Bible) means you couldn't understand it even if you tried. If you think about it, countries commit genocide all the time in war. When God tells the Israelites to go wipe out a race they did it in war. God was Israel's king. Should we not allow children to read about the genocide of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Should we not tell them about the Holocaust genocide? Should we forget all about the millions killed in WW1? The Bible is not different than any history book, the only difference is the angle that the history is presented.

God was the one that commited the genocide. - Noah's Flood

Hatred in the wars god commanded and the people that were killed.

Slavery is there and well... Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)

When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)

Crazy!

Rapes/baby killing... 2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB -

Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'

Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die."

The poor women were raped and then the twisted sadistic god went ahead and killed an innocent baby because he is a sicko.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB

"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."

Truely disgusting... God is just sick.

History lessons aren't even taught until later on like 5th grade, where the bible is read sometimes to the poor kid at birth. You're also comparing the actions of an all knowing and all powerful being that could have used peace to solve problems instead of horrifying violence but refused to because of the sadistic urges this god feels to the actions of mere mortals.

Violence is all around us and yes it should be taught in history and to childre. Rape and incest and other items shouldn't be allowed to be in the hands of children anymore then this months playboy or hustler should be.

I wrote a reply, read it over, and realized you've heard it all before so I'm not even gonna argue with you.

As I said in the other thread, the church should be bound by the same regulations everyone else is and whether the content is portrayed in a positive or negative manner should be irrelevant just as it is for any other source ie film, television, book.