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Chinese plaas dalk 'n 18VS beperking op die Bybel!

Hong Kong - More than 838 complaints about the Bible had been received by the government's anti-porn watchdog on Wednesday after a Chinese website said the Christian holy book was full of stories of rape, incest and violence.
The complaints were sparked after the Chinese language website ran a formalised letter, which could be forwarded to the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority, complaining that certain passages in the Bible were indecent.

The move by the website came after the authority ruled earlier this week that a series of sex columns published in a newspaper published by students at Chinese University were indecent.

One of the columns asked students questions about incest and bestiality.

The complaint letter on the website makes specific mention of the newspaper's column.

The authority confirmed on Wednesday that it had received about 838 complaints about the Bible, compared with about 80 against the students' newspaper.

The licensing authority could not say if the complaints about the Bible would be investigated. A publication is exempt from anti-porn laws if it is deemed to be in the interest of science, literature, art or academic study.

But if the complaints against the Bible were held to be valid, the holy book would have to be sold like sex magazines, in sealed packaging with a warning that it could only be bought by people older than 18. - Sapa-dpa