{"id":488,"date":"2006-06-20T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=488"},"modified":"2006-06-20T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T00:07:41","slug":"r-rated-sunday-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"R-Rated Sunday School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2141050\/\">series<\/a> in Slate where a not-particularly-observant Jewish guy starts reading the Bible for the first time.  It&#8217;s entertaining, enlightening and thought-provoking.  And it points out the fact that if Fundamentalists were in any way consistent, they should be foaming at the mouth to ban the Bible on account of its content:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This chapter [Genesis 19] makes the Jerry Springer Show look like Winnie the Pooh &#8230; After the attempted mass gay rape, the father pimping, the urban devastation, uxorious saline murder, it looks like Lot and his daughters are finally safe. They&#8217;re living alone in a cave in the mountains. But then the two daughters\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthink of them as Judea&#8217;s Hilton sisters\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcomplain that cave life is no fun because there aren&#8217;t enough men around. So, one night they get Lot falling-down drunk and have sex with him. Chapter 19 poses what I would call the Sunday School Problem\u00e2\u20ac\u201das in, how do you teach this in Sunday school? What exactly is the moral lesson here?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled across a series in Slate where a not-particularly-observant Jewish guy starts reading the Bible for the first time. It&#8217;s entertaining, enlightening and thought-provoking. And it points out the fact that if Fundamentalists were in any way consistent, they should be foaming at the mouth to ban the Bible on account of its content: This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;R-Rated Sunday School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}