@Ellio_98 seems to be fearful of the Bible...Or else he wouldn't have posted this:
Let me make it my personal mission to reply to the false assumptions made by the fake sticker.
First, it is a desecration of the Bible that it has been set upon. That is, the Word of God and the image producer has defamed the Son of God by attaching something deliberately meant to mock God in its words. That is a bad start for someone who will seriously regret this when they meet God in person.
Calling the Bible fiction ... recommending to others that it should not be believed is taking away from the Word of God. That is specifically warned against in Revelations 22:19 "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." (KJV) This action comes with a severe punishment for anyone who commits it and any persons proclaiming that the Word of God is not real should seek His forgiveness for directly violated His commands here.
Some of the claims of the so-called content advisory are technically true deliberately mislead by using bait-and-switch methods to convince one of a perceived wrong when another which is not wrong has been wrongfully misinterpreted to be wrong. An example of this is "Contains verse descriptive or advocating..." in this case, the word 'or' is highly misleading because it makes it implies that if the reader sees something that is described as wrong, that the Bible is advocating it when in fact the Bible never advocates anything that is wrong.
Some of the obvious fallacies claimed by the bait-and-switch method --as being promoted -- include suicide, incest, bestiality, sadomasochism, sexual activity in a violent context, and murder. This first group sounds very bad...so surely the Bible must be "promoting" them. In fact, none of these are promoted anymore than a news report in the newspaper promotes a murder-suicide that occurred in someone's home in the dark of night. Reporting an event is not the same as endorsing that event. The Bible does not gloss over the bad parts of human history. There are horrible crimes committed by people throughout the entire 6000 year history of mankind.
Suicide does occur in the Bible. Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin (Jewish religious government), realized what terrible crime he did and hung himself. The Bible doesn't endorse this, it reports his guilt and his taking of his own life as fact...not to be favored, just that it happened.
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Incest has happened. Lot's two daughters both deliberately made their father drunk and then raped him because they falsely thought the world might be ending with the death of all men and they needed to preserve the species (the reasoning may be slightly different, but the sinful act was wrong regardless of why) (Genesis 19:31-32). They were acting in disbelief that God had warned Lot that only the region of Sodom and Gomorrah would be destroyed for their sexual deviancy.
The daughters' incestual rape of their father, Lot, should not be confused with the at-the-time genetically safe mating of Adam and Eve's sons and daughters to each other to produce the rest of humanity. When man was created, his genetic structure was perfect and had not yet begun getting damaged due to the post-flood environmental conditions after Noah's era. Once the radiation started creeping into the world as it now exists, the genetic structure of humanity's DNA began it's terrible slide into what it now is and will continue to degenerate until humanity can no longer be sustained without the intervention of Christ's return...but that is a lesson for another day.
So, brother-sister relations used to be considered non-incestual, but, roughly a thousand years after Noah's flood, the humane genome had already become so damaged and thus brother-sister relationships became "incestual" and God had to restrict it in His Torah to the Jewish people, given to Moses: "Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere." (Leviticus 18:9 NIV)
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Some of the others of that first set -- bestiality, sadomasochism, sexual activity in a violent context, and murder -- have occurred but are not promoted either. In the very beginning, the very first person born, Cain, the son of Adam, killed his brother Abel. This was the very first reported crime. It is also the very first death of a human being ever to have occurred. Abel was the very first person to go to Heaven and be with God, in person. As for sadomashochism, I am unaware of anywhere in the Bible that this is actually portrayed, let alone "promoted". And since I'm very well-versed in the Bible, I would suggest that this is a red herring thrown in to make the list of bad things perceived as being promoted to be even larger.
Bestiality (in both commonly accepted contexts) was practiced in Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as homosexuality (which was in the second grouping (arbitrarily-grouped by myself for handling in this writing)) which was known to be flagrantly conducted there. Homosexuality was so out of control, there, that the common term for the perverse act of sodomy was named after Sodom. When God sent his Angels to see if even ten people in the region were righteous so that He might spare them all for their sake (per Abraham's request), they were threatened with both sodomy and "sexual activity in a violent context". Having found not even ten righteous people in the entire region of five cities and their surrounding countryside, God did destroy the entire region to purge the earth of their extreme wickedness therein (Genesis 18:20-21; 19:4-5,13,23-25).
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The use "of [drugs or] alcohol" does occur in the Bible. Jesus miraculously turned water into wine at a wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11). It is unknown whether he partook of any...I think He may have and don't see a problem with this though some Christians would think that possibly sacrilegious of me to claim. Drinking too much can get you in trouble. Earlier, I wrote about Lot and his daughters, but this isn't the first time that getting drunk caused sexual deviancy. Back during the time after Noah got off the Ark when the world-wide flood that covered the earth had receded, he got himself drunk and disrobed.
Then, Noah was apparently "seen" by his middle son, Ham, while doing something perverse. His other sons, Shem and Japheth -- knowing this was wrong, held a robe between them and walked backwards to their father to cover him up without disgracing him as their brother had done. For this -- later -- did Noah place a curse on Ham's son, Canaan. This curse (like with the mark of Cain) has been a falsely-blamed source of bad treatment for many groups of people throughout history (including slavery in America) but -- in fact -- that curse was only leading to the demise of the Canaanites by Israel centuries later.
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Well, I've got to wrap this up...it's getting long (again) and I've got work to do. But let me end with this: The "Exposure warning" heaps horrible insults upon Christians and -- for this reason -- should merit a censure in this PG-rated forum. However, it does get one thing right. Long-term "exposure" to the Word of God may actually cause fanaticism....which is a very good thing from a certain point of view. I am a fanatic for Christ and I'm proud to proclaim His name and His Word to you all who read this and to anyone who will listen to the sound of my voice.
As for the personal insult heaped upon Christians, I am a Christian, and the person who posted this did so to insult me. Thus they should be reprimanded per the rules of this forum However, I will let it go...for my peace is in Christ.
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.
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