God Help Us! Students Given Trigger Warning About the Bible’s Death and Violence – Including Christ’s Crucifixion
The Bible is the latest classic to get a trigger warning, with students told even the crucifixion’s too distressing to handle. The Mail has the story.
Bizarrely, the University of Sheffield advises that the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John include scenes of “graphic bodily injury and sexual violence” as they relate the events leading up to the death of Jesus.
Details of the guidance – issued to students studying biblical and classical sources in English literature – have been obtained by the Mail on Sunday under Freedom of Information laws.
Christians and historians last night said the warnings were “misguided”, “absurd” and incompatible with discussions about morality.
One relates to the story of Cain and Abel, the first sons of Adam and Eve. In the Book of Genesis, Cain, the first person to be born, kills his brother, Abel, who becomes the first person to die.
But critics of the censorship point out that there is no mention in the Bible of how Cain kills Abel – and were at a complete loss to explain the inclusion of “sexual violence” in the warnings.
Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said: “Applying trigger warnings to salvation narratives that have shaped our civilisation is not only misguided, but absurd. Singling out the Bible in this way is discriminatory and deeply ill-informed. To suggest that the crucifixion story involves ‘sexual violence’ is not just inaccurate, it’s a profound misreading of the text. The account of Jesus’s death is not a tale of trauma, it is the ultimate expression of love, sacrifice and redemption, central to the Christian faith.”
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The Koran must have a double warning then, all that beheading and stoning.
No, the Koran is fine, as it contains nothing of eternal value.
Yeah, the Bible doesn’t sugar coat things. It doesn’t portray life as the fictitious dream world that only exists in leftie heads.
Sexual violence? Yeah, plenty of that in the Bible. The rape of Dinah, for example.
And yes, ultimately the passion of Christ is not a pleasant story: an entirely innocent man is sentenced to death on fictitious charges and tortured to death.
But better face reality than live in a dream world.
The ‘sexual violence’ may refer to the (spoiler alert: averted) stoning of the woman caught in adultery.
I must admit I don’t know what they mean by “the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John include scenes of […] sexual violence”.
There are descriptions of sexual violence in the Old Testament. No doubt about that.
But the Gospels?
Then again, this trigger warning was possibly written by someone who never read the Gospels, which would explain it.
By the way, the depiction of Sodom and Gomorrah sound suspiciously like a mixture of a Pride demo mixed with BLM protests (“mostly peaceful”).
They’d try to prohibit the bible on the grounds that it causes cancer if they only could come up a way to make bible exposure and cancer correlate in a statistic.
Climate Armageddon?
Jesus warned only those who endured to the end will be saved.
Today’s snowflakes better buck their ideas up.
Hell is eternal. Their choice…
Wakey, wakey! From a hundred years ago the Frankfurt School (“Cultural Marxism”), among others (Theosophy, Fabianism), has been infecting fellow-travellers and useful idiots from across the political spectrum to undermine the Christian faith as the foundation of Western society and the intellectual capital of Europeans and Jews.
On the plus side, with these trigger warnings, more people may be inclined to read the Bible to see what the fuss is about.