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I see you’re point when you say you have a problem with calling the content R-rated, but not the book itself. I would just point out that if it’s rated R, it is not appropriate for children, and (as a general rule) morally wrong. To say either of those things about the Bible would be a problem.

Perhaps I am quibbling just with the use of the term “Rated R”, but then, it’s possible we are misusing/misapplying it in this thread. I agree that some events that the Bible records are disturbing and even graphic, but it is not written in a disturbing or graphic way. Hitler and WWII were both rated R, yet I’ve never heard anyone say that a history book is R-rated for talking about it.

In addition, the Bible is very discreet, even in it’s most graphic moments. To use writer lingo, it tells rather than shows the events that are disturbing/graphic.

I would call it a paradox, which is different from a contradiction, to say that the contents of the Bible are R-rated, but the Bible is not.