2006-12-01 08:19:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
PREIEST AND SOME CHRISTIAN PEOPLE ARE BURNING THE BOOKS
2006-12-01 08:29:35 · update #1
That really bothers me. I remember a few years ago the Deacon at my church was talking about protecting our children for the Devil worshippers and her started talikg about the Harry Potter books. That just made me curoius. At the time I worked in a Book store and was put in charge of the children's section but never noticed the Harry Potter books. I asked one of my co-workers and she said they are in the adult fiction section because corporate doesn't want the hassle with the Radical Christian groups. Having heard that, I had to see what the problem was. I grabbed a copy on my next break and took it in the back. I've been hooked everysince. My daught wanted to know why she couldn't read them. I told her the only person who says what she can and can't read was me and that I had no problem with her reading them. We both enjoy them very much and can't wait until book 7 is released.
People do a lot of stupid things in the name of religion and sadly they feel burning books is right. Well, it's wrong and as you mentioned they may have never read a copy. If the storyline was supposed to lead our children into Devil Worshipping and witchcraft then why would JK bother to make the story Good versus Evil?
This same idiots don't realize that you can take any book and find in it what you want to. For instance there is a book that's been out for quite some time that is filled with stories about incesy, rape, sodomy, pre-maritail sex and the Good versus Evil stuff. Yep, I'm talking about the Bible. And if you're truly sick enough you can use it as a resource to do evil things including devil worship.
Whew! Sorry! had to get that off my chest.
2006-12-01 09:31:14 · answer #1 · answered by WillLynn 1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Book burning in the past might have meant that a piece would be lost for good, since there usually weren't that many copies. But today, and with Harry Potter books printed all over the world, burning them in isolation doesn't destroy them. So, it does no real harm to the series. In fact, it helps.
How many people picked up Harry Potter books just because they were burned? I know I did. There's a sense of curiosity and excitement in reading a book that incites such passion. When "The Catcher in the Rye" was placed on banned book lists, every teenager wanted to secretly read a copy. Banning and burning usually helps a work.
So, when organizations burn a book, they are only feeding its fire. A better protest would be to say nothing about it and stop buying it. Books, in our world, are commercial entities that only survive as long as people pay attention to them-- whether that attention be in reading or burning, it makes no difference.
When I hear about books being burned in protest, I laugh. "Ah, another classic in the making!" I say.
2006-12-01 18:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by Roald Ellsworth 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No form of written word should ever be burnt, even if it is massively offensive to a large group. Book-burning teaches children that literacy has no value, that books, themselves, have no value -- not even the ones those zealots want their children to read. Of course they haven't read it, because that would involve not maintaining one's ignorance! They know someone who knows someone.
The only positive comes when some of those children get older. They will sneak-read the books they saw burned once-upon-a-time and seek the knowledge denied them earlier.
Amusingly, the writer still gets paid for the burned book, and the controversy over being a ban-worthy book immediately makes it have value in the more curious children's minds. Even bad press is good press, and having a ban-worthy book is a badge of honor is certain literary circles.
2006-12-01 16:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by Jess B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll have to assume that folks are burning books from the Harry Potter series because they don't want their kids learning about witchcraft and the like. If so, they're idiots.
On the other hand, if they're out there burning Harry Potter books because J.K. Rowling is a shitty writer and they want their kids to spend time reading books that are worth the effort, then good for them.
2006-12-01 16:29:15 · answer #4 · answered by Edward S 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it's really ignorant on their part. To me, all books are pieces of literature. People must keep in mind that they are fictional. Reading is good and healthy if you keep in mind just that. Most readers use right judgements and they know they aren't supposed to believe what a fictional book says. Those people should relax and be more open minded and try to read the book. They'll see that J.K. Rowling isn't giving witcraft classes but telling an amazingly clever story. So book burners....read the book or I'll turn you into a frog! lol j/k....
2006-12-01 16:29:30 · answer #5 · answered by MrS. JaCk SpArRoW 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who's burning Harry Potter books? Are you making that up?
2006-12-01 16:27:18 · answer #6 · answered by trigam41 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think anyone should place judgements on anyone or anything at all, much less without some kind of knowledge on the subject. I also think book burning in general is wrong. I think that is disrespect to the author and I think it is very narrowminded.
My mother won't let my sister watch any of the HP movies, but she lets her watch Disney movies. Same "wizardry" same "magic". I think it is uneducated. (Although I love my mother very much)
2006-12-01 16:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by Lauryn Brook 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As long as they are homeless, or maybe a bunch of union workers on strike, just trying to keep warm or make it through the night, it's ok by me.
2006-12-01 20:51:18 · answer #8 · answered by buccaneersden 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, first of all, I don't think any book should be burned. It should be recycled. Think of the poor tree. And really, no one should burn books..
2006-12-01 16:23:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Kind of takes you back to the XVth century.
2006-12-01 16:31:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋