The Bible and Dildoes
'Dildoes are bad' says the Bible, according to a headline entry from World Sex News today.
I'm always a little wary about (a) what the Bible writes, (b) what it means (c) what was meant. Here is the same passage (Ezekiel 16:17) from different versions of the Bible:
- King James Version
- Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them...
- New Life Version
- You also took your objects of beauty made of My gold and silver, which I had given you. And you used them to make things that looked like men, that you might play with them as a woman who sells the use of her body...
- Contemporary English Version
- You made idols out of the gold and silver jewelry I gave you, then you sinned by worshiping those idols...
- The Message
- And then you took all that fine jewelry I gave you, my gold and my silver, and made pornographic images of them for your brothels...
The entire verse is about a married woman called Jerusalem who becomes a prostitute and sacrifices her children to her idols. Using a dildo is just one of the observations.
It does seem that the use of a dildo is mentioned in the same way that a drunk driver would be accused of drinking; it's not the drinking alcohol is necessary bad, but it could apppear so in a wider context. The use of guns are also judged differently depending on whether we are discussing a gun-touting criminal or a gun-carrying policemen. And nudity is judged differently depending on whether the subject is a new born baby or a man in your daughter's changing room.
But I guess we shouldn't forget that the woman murdered her two children. And that God decides that she will be stripped naked and stoned to death.
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