At last. And God Bless America. I’ve been saying it for years.
The Bible is unfit for human consumption. The most widely read book in the world, it must also be among the most pornographic. Now available at any church and most hotel rooms near you.
(Thank you, Mr Gideon.) Yes. The Catholic Church had it right when it banned laity from reading the Bible.
It was on its Index of forbidden books. All versions of the Bible, other than in Latin, were banned, as was Flaubert’s Madame Bovary , Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Galileo’s Dialogue on the Great World Systems. Such distinguished company.
Then, in 1966, Pope Paul VI got rid of the Index. And look what has happened to the Catholic Church since. So, three cheers for Utah’s Republican legislature, which in 2022 passed a law to weed out pornography from all school libraries.
And congratulations to the Davis School District in Utah, north of Salt Lake City, which this time last year used that law to remove the Bible from its schools, as it was full of “vulgarity and violence” while also being “one of the most sex-ridden books around”, as one appalled parent put it. READ MORE In pictures: Summer solstice celebrations at the Hill of Tara Harbour Kitchen review: This is a cracking coastal restaurant Gabor Maté: I began to notice that the people who got chronically ill had trouble saying ‘no’ David Puttnam – The Long Way Home review: Heart-warming exploration of an Englishman’s love affair.
