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Quote by: Slevin57  You know I'm not really a bible basher, but this seems like one of those times where I can't find a better example..
Alot of religious books, including the bible...are in verse, poetic verse.
Now the bible and it's religious companions have inspired good, but they have also inspired bad.
I'm not speaking about normal people. Normal people would not be inspired by something they read to go out and kill. But people that are open to psychological suggestibility (schizophrenics) and already have a mind set that is searching for a rationalization, wrong as it may be, can use poems and definitely the bible to justify their actions. |
I agree. But don't you think that those people will find something to be inspired by, whether or not we read poems that have violent images? Whether or not we read the Bible? That being the case, why not use those poems, and that scripture, for the benefit of those who will not use it as an excuse for their madness? Why give the depraved that much power over us?