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196 points ryanjamurphy | 4 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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Roritharr ◴[31 Mar 25 19:43 UTC] No.43539002[source]▶
What Kagi or anyone could work on, is an actually working version of YouTube Kids.

I literally Pi-Hole Blocked all of YouTube after my son started reading the Bible after a Minecraft Influencer started preaching throughout most of his videos to the point my son became a bit too much interested in the topic.

Not that I'm a rabid atheist or would deny my child such a thing, but if THAT can enter my 8yr olds brain via his short allowed time where he can browse by himself, i'm worried what else is coming his way through it.

I'd love to give him access to valuable videos between rules I describe by natural language and can test myself, but nothing like this exists.

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piokoch[dead post] ◴[31 Mar 25 20:28 UTC] No.43539569[source]▶
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themaninthedark ◴[31 Mar 25 20:49 UTC] No.43539817[source]▶
It was not that the kid was reading the bible that scared the parent but that they took a sudden deep(obsessive?) interest in something after only being exposed to it on Youtube.

I have kids and I too would be concerned if they suddenly took interest in a topic. Not that long ago two twelve year old girls murdered their friend because "Slenderman".

Religious topics can lead to radicalization and/or cults.

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graemep ◴[31 Mar 25 21:01 UTC] No.43539935[source]▶
An interest in something that has ha a huge and pervasive influence. Even if you are an atheist who would never reed it, if you are from a historicist Christian culture it has shaped your worldview.This is very well argued in Dominion by Tom Holland.
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1. tombert ◴[31 Mar 25 21:28 UTC] No.43540191[source]▶
I'm an atheist who has read large parts of the Bible, not even to understand history, but to simply try to understand the (ostensible) motivations of current leaders and constituents in politics today.

I haven't read all of it, a lot of the Bible is a pretty dry read, but I have read most of it, and it has been at least a little illuminating to see what people will use for justification of stuff.

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2. wahnfrieden ◴[01 Apr 25 05:49 UTC] No.43543255[source]▶
You've read more than those leaders and constituents
3. graemep ◴[01 Apr 25 08:11 UTC] No.43544098[source]▶
I do not mean that no atheist would read the Bible, but that even the sort of atheist who would not read the Bible has had their world view shaped by Christianity (including the Bible). I am a Christian and I have read bits of other religions' scriptures and a lot of other religions' mythology.

How do you inform yourself about reading the Bible? Conflicts about interpretation, applicability, cultural context, personal context, translation, true original text, and even canon? I find the biggest problem (with both Biblical literalists and atheists!) is the tendency to read it as one book by one author. It is not even one genre! Or are you just interested in how a literal reading influences American politics?

If you are talking about people using the Bible in a political context, most of the time they are misusing it. Not only are they cherry-picking but Jesus was apolitical ("give to Caesar what is Caesar's"). The book I mentioned argues that this evolved into separation of church and state (a concept that has been far more successful in historically Christian countries).

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4. tombert ◴[01 Apr 25 12:36 UTC] No.43546044[source]▶
> Or are you just interested in how a literal reading influences American politics?

Yes. A lot of conservatives claim that the Bible is the literal inerrant word of God.