<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+May 20 2007, 04:02 AM-->QUOTE(dhu @ May 20 2007, 04:02 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->HK media gets complaint against Bible
16 May, 2007<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]69050[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Ah Dhu, it was promising while it lasted:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1811
By the way, this one says the number of complaints were 2,041.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bible spared 'indecent' classification in Hong Kong</b>
Last updated at 08:47am on 18th May 2007
Hong Kong's media regulator has rejected calls to reclassify the Bible as an indecent publication following <b>more than 2,000</b> complaints about its sexual and violent content, including rape and incest.
"The Bible is a religious text which is part of civilisation. It has been passed from generation to generation," Hong Kong's Television and Licensing Authority (TELA) said in a statement issued late yesterday.
It said it would not submit the Bible to the Obscene Articles Tribunal for classification.
The regulator received <b>2,041 complaints</b> against the Bible this week, following an uproar over a sex column in a student magazine that was classified as "indecent" by authorities for asking if readers had ever fantasised about incest or bestiality.
A Web site launched soon afterwards campaigned to have the Bible similarly classified, citing passages with sexual and violent content it claimed went beyond that of the sex column.
But TELA said in its statement the Bible "had not violated standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable members of the community".
Publications classified as indecent in Hong Kong can only be bought by people aged over 18 and must be sealed in a wrapper with a statutory warning notice. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The book preaches death for unbelievers, people of a different sexual orientation (and crossdressers too, if I were to believe the televangelists), inculcates fear and hatred of Ethiopians, Canaanites and others, belief in divinely ordained slavery and inequality between sexes, abuse of children and much much more.
You thought I was speaking of Hitler's Mein Kampf? No, it was the babble. But whereas one is correctly recognised as the ravings of a lunatic, the other is exempt from every criticism. I guess if you have a large enough world following, even institutionalised hatred and intolerance is okay and any associated hate literature is described as 'part of civilisation' (as in news piece above).
One good thing about the link above: there's at least a picture of a beautiful (HK?) woman.
Unfortunately she has to pretend she is Eva for the pic, which no E Asian could ever have been even if Eva <i>had</i> existed. But then, it's part of the modern-day PR to <i>present</i> christianity as having a global face.
16 May, 2007<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]69050[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Ah Dhu, it was promising while it lasted:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1811
By the way, this one says the number of complaints were 2,041.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Bible spared 'indecent' classification in Hong Kong</b>
Last updated at 08:47am on 18th May 2007
Hong Kong's media regulator has rejected calls to reclassify the Bible as an indecent publication following <b>more than 2,000</b> complaints about its sexual and violent content, including rape and incest.
"The Bible is a religious text which is part of civilisation. It has been passed from generation to generation," Hong Kong's Television and Licensing Authority (TELA) said in a statement issued late yesterday.
It said it would not submit the Bible to the Obscene Articles Tribunal for classification.
The regulator received <b>2,041 complaints</b> against the Bible this week, following an uproar over a sex column in a student magazine that was classified as "indecent" by authorities for asking if readers had ever fantasised about incest or bestiality.
A Web site launched soon afterwards campaigned to have the Bible similarly classified, citing passages with sexual and violent content it claimed went beyond that of the sex column.
But TELA said in its statement the Bible "had not violated standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable members of the community".
Publications classified as indecent in Hong Kong can only be bought by people aged over 18 and must be sealed in a wrapper with a statutory warning notice. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->The book preaches death for unbelievers, people of a different sexual orientation (and crossdressers too, if I were to believe the televangelists), inculcates fear and hatred of Ethiopians, Canaanites and others, belief in divinely ordained slavery and inequality between sexes, abuse of children and much much more.
You thought I was speaking of Hitler's Mein Kampf? No, it was the babble. But whereas one is correctly recognised as the ravings of a lunatic, the other is exempt from every criticism. I guess if you have a large enough world following, even institutionalised hatred and intolerance is okay and any associated hate literature is described as 'part of civilisation' (as in news piece above).
One good thing about the link above: there's at least a picture of a beautiful (HK?) woman.
Unfortunately she has to pretend she is Eva for the pic, which no E Asian could ever have been even if Eva <i>had</i> existed. But then, it's part of the modern-day PR to <i>present</i> christianity as having a global face.