Let's Go Out to the Field

And Cain said to his brother...
Let's go out to the field...
And when they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

- The Book of Genesis

by R. Crumb

From the Beginning

Murder is natural.
Murder was there from the beginning.
Murder is our first instinct.
Murder, for lack of a better term...
...is good.
It makes us strong.
It makes us wise.
It makes us powerful.

 - The Strange Talent of Luther Strode #4

by Justin Jordan and Tradd Moore

Sam's Club Bans the Bible!

How's that for a sensational headline?

I woke up and found this news and thought I'd share, even though it's about a month old, apparently. But yes, Sam's Club did pull from their shelves a Bible. A graphic adaptation of the Bible. A graphic adaptation of the Bible that uses Legos.

Why?

Mature Content.

CNET has the news here and a Lego blog also comments on it here.

The banned Bible is a book version of Brendan Smith's website The Brick Testament. You may be somewhat familiar with this site since I used a panel from it for a Graphic Bible post about cutting off foreskins.

See, this is what I have been talking about. Forget Harry Potter, parents need to start standing up in church and warning that the Bible is too dark and raunchy for kids to read! Seriously, what responsible parent would let their child read the Bible?

Graphic Bible: Ezekiel 23:20

"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emissions was like that of horses." (NIV) 

Graphic Bible: 1 Samuel 18:25-27

Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired, David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife. (English Standard Version)