Banning Books for Christ in Republic, Missouri: "It’s interesting how we can’t have anything in our public or school libraries that doesn’t perpetuate Christian myth, or to be more precise, is in some way deemed to contradict Christian myth. We’ve seen this time and again, dating back to the earliest days of Christianity, “unfriendly” texts burned out of existence, and sometimes the author for having written it.We may not burn authors any more, but books are still burned, and when they are not burned they are banned. This is what happened in Republic, Missouri, when two books were deemed “inappropriate” for high school students. The books? Sarah Ockler’s Twenty Boy Summer was removed from the school’s library, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five from the school’s curriculum.
And here’s where Christian intolerance for other viewpoints comes into play.."
4 comments:
True believers will throw your ass in an oven while singing "Jesus Love's You" at the top of their voices.
I know exactly what you mean Cletis!
Those people are absolutely stupid. If you don't like a book, and it isn't inciting people to violence, simply don't read it.
There's a lot of violent stuff in the Old Testament and no one's banned that yet.
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