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Sam's Club stores are no longer selling The Brick Bible: A New Spin on The Old Testament, which tells Bible stories through 1,400 images of toy Lego pieces, after “numerous concerns” were received about some of the book's content.

“Sam's Club received numerous concerns from our members and parents about the mature content in what is perceived as a children's book. Accordingly, Sam's Club made a business decision to discontinue sales,” a Sam's Club spokesperson told The Christian Post via email on Friday.

Although parents might have a problem with the book, its creator says he was only trying to be true to the Word.

“From the start, my goal was to create an illustrated Bible that stood out from all others – not just because it was illustrated in LEGO, but because I would be using only direct quotes of scripture to retell the stories just as the Bible tells them,” the book's illustrator, Brendan Powell Smith, told CP in an email.

I also endeavored not to water down the stories or censor them for content. If it was in the Bible, my thinking was, it was worth illustrating,” he said. “That decision has meant, though, that not everyone considers The Brick Testament appropriate for all children, since the Bible is chock full of graphic violence throughout, and contains a few stories with sexual content.”

 

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Originally Posted by semiannualchick:

I just wonder when people read the Bible if they really think about or actually comprehend the graphic violence & sexual content that's in it. Surely people don't read those parts to their children?

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They re-write the stories to feed them to children but even then they're pretty harsh. The argument is that they have to make it "age appropriate". Nice way of saying they have to lie to the kids, then when they are old enough to read the bible on their own hope that they don't begin to wonder why anyone would worship a god like that. Think about it, they have to clean up a book they say they live by, they say proves there is a loving creator, so they can tell the stories to kids when they start the indoctrination.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

Sam's Club stores are no longer selling The Brick Bible: A New Spin on The Old Testament, which tells Bible stories through 1,400 images of toy Lego pieces, after “numerous concerns” were received about some of the book's content.

“Sam's Club received numerous concerns from our members and parents about the mature content in what is perceived as a children's book. Accordingly, Sam's Club made a business decision to discontinue sales,” a Sam's Club spokesperson told The Christian Post via email on Friday.

Although parents might have a problem with the book, its creator says he was only trying to be true to the Word.

“From the start, my goal was to create an illustrated Bible that stood out from all others – not just because it was illustrated in LEGO, but because I would be using only direct quotes of scripture to retell the stories just as the Bible tells them,” the book's illustrator, Brendan Powell Smith, told CP in an email.

I also endeavored not to water down the stories or censor them for content. If it was in the Bible, my thinking was, it was worth illustrating,” he said. “That decision has meant, though, that not everyone considers The Brick Testament appropriate for all children, since the Bible is chock full of graphic violence throughout, and contains a few stories with sexual content.”

 

http://www.christianpost.com/n...ature-content-63054/


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