We constantly hear about the Christian right, the supposedly "moral" people who are trying their darndest to turn the great experiment in freedom, America, into a theocratic state the likes of those found in Iran and Saudi Arabia. They preach hellfire and brimstone from their bully pulpits, damning those who don't follow "the word of God" to Beelzebub and his fiery domain.
It would surprise them greatly that many of the heroes found in the Bible were polygamists and sexual gluttons. Countless violent and sexually carnivorous individuals are documented in the Scriptures.
Some examples are listed below the flap.
1. Right from the days of Adam and Eve, God commanded man to "be fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 1:28). This, along with the laws against adultery, gave men a free license to screw not only their woman, but a bunch of other women. Men could only be punished for adultery if they shagged another married woman, since the other woman's partner could exact revenge.
2. The great King David would be considered a philanderer and gigolo by today's standards. He possessed a harem of ten concubines, who he made whoopee with as religiously as he followed the Almighty. In fact, David used the harem as a symbol of power. When Absalom leads his revolt against David, Absalom had sex with the ten concubines "in front of all Israel" (2 Sam. 16:22) to show David he was the new boss. David wouldn't take it lying down, and eventually defeated Absalom's revolt.
3. King David may have been a closet bisexual, for all we know. Note: I'm not saying he was; I personally don't believe so, considering his ravenous appetite for the opposite sex. But in the Bible, David and Jonathan (Saul's son) loved each other "as they loved their own soul" (1 Sam. 19:2). In their last meeting, they "kissed one another, and wept on one another" (2 Sam. 18:1, 20:17).
4. Absalom was conceived out of wedlock. David got it on with the gorgeous Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite. Uriah is sent back to war and dies, never discovering the betrayal. Soon after Uriah's brave end David marries Bathsheba and they give birth to a son named Solomon.
5. King Solomon was even more sexually carnivorous. He carnally knew seven hundred wives, and princesses, and three hundred concubines. Now this guy was a PLAYER. The Queen of Sheba came to Jerusalem not for Solomon's wealth, but to test the limits of the King's sexual stamina. Due to all of Solomon's womanizing, he turned away from the Almighty and began worshipping idols. For this God punished Solomon by splitting his kingdom after his death.
6. Solomon's sexual exploits were so celebrated that an entire book of Scripture is devoted to them (the Song of Songs). The formerly undisputed fact that Solomon wrote the book is now questioned; some even believe a woman penned the phrases.
I'm sure we can come up with more examples that show that the Bible, in real life, is at minimum R-rated.