Indecent?

Is Christianity's Good Book indecent?

In a skin-of-your-teeth incident worthy of the Good Book itself, Hongkong's media regulator, Television and Licensing Authority (TELA), on 18 May 2007 rejected 2,041 complaints made in a single week against the Bible's sexual and violent content that included rape and incest.

In its rejection, TELA said: "the Bible is a religious text which is part of civilisation. It has been passed from generation to generation. It had not violated standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable members of the community".

As such, it would not submit the Bible to the Obscene Articles Tribunal for classification.

So, for the moment, the Bible and all other mainstream religious texts are safe. There's no need to consign them to the bonfire or hide them away surreptitiously or read them only late at night by candle light with windows closed.

Mmm...come to think of it, you can't even read the Good Book late at night if it had been reclassified or else you'd be risking your senses to be titillated. And that's not allowed, isn't it?