a wiccan bible, a tarot reader book, and other occult books. These are in my section of books in the reference department. I didnt order them, but my supervisor did. Every time i see them, i want to just take them and burn them-and they are new things, so i cant get rid of them (like i want to). How many other people would feel like this?
2007-03-27 03:14:18 · 34 answers · asked by Son of the bunboy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It was only a question, and i think its a good one.
2007-03-27 03:44:52 · update #1
Don't worry about it, it is not your library. I have many of these types of books myself. How better to understand the enemy than to study his ways?
2007-03-27 03:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by HAND 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a believer, but I don't have a problem with having all of those books in the library.
Put the shoe on the other foot, and see how it feels. If a Wiccan ran the library, would you feel comfortable knowing she wished she could take and burn the Bible?
2007-03-27 03:21:28 · answer #2 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of the library is not to judge right and wrong - which is different for everyone, by the way (I'm sure the presence of the Christian bible bothers lots of people, too) - but to make as much information as possible available to the public.
However, it is indeed normal for you to feel like you do. No one would like to see books in the library about things they consider "wrong" - available to anyone, even kids. Just remembet that your "wrong" is not everyone else's.
So, you are right and normal to be bothered by it. But it is also right that the books are there, available for reading, so that others may make their own judgement about them, too.
2007-03-27 03:17:15 · answer #3 · answered by Steven D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should congratulate yourself on how open-minded and tolerant you are. Give yourself a slap on the back. It is a librarian's duty to protect free speech even when you don't agree with the ideas presesnted in some publications. You should be ashamed of yourself and you should be fired. You want to be surrounded only by publications that dont conlict with you narrow view then you should work in a monestary and leave the library to someone who values freedom of speech. You have no business working in a library if a book representing another religion is intolerable to you. You make me sick.
2007-03-27 03:21:01 · answer #4 · answered by kmankman4321 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of a library is books. It is not a bastion of religious ideas of any kind, the books are not there to convert, it is a place of knowledge and ideas. If the need to burn ideas you do not agree with is that strong then a library is obvious not the place you should be working.
2007-03-27 03:34:56 · answer #5 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I might, but I'd rather study them to find out what these other religious teaching are so that I would better know how to witness and minister to them in order to show them the love of God. Know your adversary, as it were. Be cautious about this. It is wrong to hate people, and dangerous to hate what they believe because you quickly lose sight of what you hate and place it on the person, not their beliefs. That's not what a Christian should do. You cannot force someone to believe, you can ONLY love them to the truth.
2007-03-27 03:22:21 · answer #6 · answered by Steve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's kind of silly. A library is not just for Christian books. Do you toss out the Bhagavad Gita? How about the Tao Tse Ching? Are you dumping the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius? What about books about Norse and Greek mythology?
Christians are allowed to read books about other faiths and beliefs. It's not your place to censor.
2007-03-27 03:18:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
It is not your fault. I blame the supervisor for hiring you. A library is for learning and you already admitted how backward you think. After you are done buring those books what section do you start on next? There are many versions of the bible... which ones will survive you?
2007-03-27 03:18:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Those are what they call conflicting beliefs. You hate them because they have a different outlook than you do. That's just being blatently ignorant. While you're at it, do you want to rip up every science book you see too, because science often conflicts with the Bible also?
Your heart is filled with hate for you to desire to rip up books that are held just as sacred to a Wicken as the Christian version is to a Christian, and that my friend is not God's love but the Devil's hate. Hate because of something different from you. Do you know what they call Christians who hate things because they are just different?
Klansman.
2007-03-27 03:25:24 · answer #9 · answered by Ryan 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, please understand that not everyone will share your view. You must also remember just like there are tarot books, and wiccan bibles, there is also in the same Library, a Hebrew Bible, and a Greek Bible. Concordances, TD Jakes books, all kinds of literature about God.
Someone who truly seeks God will find Him. So don't worry about all of that.
2007-03-27 03:21:36 · answer #10 · answered by hyrlady 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Purely christian sentiment. Destroy anything that is different.
As a library worker, you should be dedicated to providing information that addresses ALL views. The purpose of a library is not to promote a single view; that's the purpose of propaganda.
Even in a Christian library, books of different viewpoints are valuable. In a public library, you are there to serve your community, not your own set of beliefs.
If your job is to serve the PUBLIC, you need to recognize that your job is to provide information describing the widest set of views, not merely to impose or reinforce your own on others. The purpose of a library is to enlighten, not to silence.
If you think it is the job of a library to silence and destroy countering views, perhaps you should work somewhere else.
2007-03-27 03:24:18 · answer #11 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋