> ...because they were considered to contain “pornographic or indecent” material
Guess the christian bible isn't going to last long there then.
Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#/media/File...
Guess the christian bible isn't going to last long there then.
Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#/media/File...
(for creatures that the creator had an inordinate fondness for, even beetles get short shrift; all I've found is Lev.11:22 "ye may eat ... the beetle after his kind ...")
* how should we measure popularity? By Google hits, Jesus wins, hands down, but by platinum record multiples (Amy Grant being in the single digits), John had a point.
"A shark could swim faster than me, but I could probably run faster than a shark. So in a triathlon, it would all come down to who is the better cyclist."
However, it appears that both basking sharks and great whites peak at only 5.5 W/kg, while professional human cyclists can sustain such output.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30209042/
(incidentally, everything old is new again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41179954 )
They were not exactly keen on Jewish saviour and scriptures written by jews!
The Bible is not popular with a lot of people now either. People have been arrested in the UK for reading aloud from offensive bits of the Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism#Relationship_with_ma...
For the downvoters: specifically, I had been remembering Lot when making the original comment, but I'm sure examples of biblical indecency can easily be multiplied.
I guess so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_units_of_...