There are multiple references to the Bible and other religious beliefs. The main two religions it draws from are Christianity and Islam. There are many references to the children and all other humans as the "Sons of Adam" and the "Daughters of Eve", as well as many indications of the Jinn and other malevolent spirits. Is this enough of a religious overlay that it should be considered a book unsuitable to be used in school classes?
2007-05-16 05:11:04 · 23 answers · asked by Maverick 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not advocating banning the book (I'm actually in the middle of reading it now). I'm just asking if the religious overtones in the book constitute it as suitable for use in public schools.
2007-05-16 05:19:20 · update #1
No, but I don't think any book should be banned, no matter the content. Free will and all that.
Funny, I had no interest in the book as a child, due to the religious overtones of it. Yes, I found religion revolting at a very early age. I have been meaning to read the series (since the movie came out), but I'm backed up at the moment...
2007-05-16 06:12:49 · answer #1 · answered by tombollocks 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All those people speaking of 'book burnings' and crying 'nazi'-tell me why David Irving is behind bars? For writing a book (of the possibility of the holocaust being a lie)! Tell me why Holocaust 'denial' books are either banned or their authors behind bars? Anyone heard of Zundel?
Its fine when you need to attack Islam and Muslims-but all of a sudden-freedom of speech becomes so much 'less important' on issues of 'hate speech' or 'inciting violence'.
I'd say-using that argument-anything that is insulting or offensive to Islam & Muslims, OR Judaism & Jews, OR Christianity & Christians, OR Blacks or Hispanics or, or , or.... should be curtailed or censored-and why not. If you can apply the rule to holocaust denial-I am sure you could apply the same rule equally to a lot of other 'mis truths'
Or just accept that you are all hypocrates.
2007-05-17 02:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by Iconophobe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree, once you start banning stuff you go down a slippery slope.
For the US patriots:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Novel Banned in some US schools for use of racial slurs.
Beautiful Retard Matthew Hansen Novel Banned in some US states because of its offensive title.
The Lorax Dr. Seuss Children's Book Banned in parts of the US for being an allegorical political commentary.
The Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Novel (fictionalized memoir) Banned in the US in the 1930's and partially through the 80's, seized by US customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the United States.
2007-05-16 12:18:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They should not be banned for several reason. The first is that they embody good writing. C.S. Lewis was a master of the English language. Secondly, they are not overtly expressive of any theological message. Lewis himself said that he was not intending any of his Narnia books to be considered allegorical. Finally, when is it wrong to have in any school library a variety of books, both religious and secular? Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion NOR PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.
2007-05-16 12:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by Caesar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could take every book ever written in the entire world and at least one person would find a reason for them to be banned. Can you imagine a world without books of any kind? What a sad statement.
2007-05-16 12:24:05 · answer #5 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way. The Chronicles of Narnia is a great piece of literature. America is going seriously downhill if it starts banning excellent books like the Narnia series just because they have some religious imagery. No, no, no.
2007-05-16 12:19:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok dude why ban something which is just part of an imagination and that to being made with keeping kids in mind...why with such a weird notion do u want kids to fall into some religious stuff...let them enjoy the kids the tigers and the imagination...dont spoil the fantasy...ban the book in your damn country...
2007-05-16 12:23:12 · answer #7 · answered by ARNAV 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you have one fictional story that borrows elements from two other fictional stories. I don't see the problem.
Religion only becomes a bad thing when it's taught at truth. If more of your people realized that Islam was just a delusional lie, they wouldn't be flying planes into building and trying to blow everything up.
2007-05-16 12:17:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are people who'd like to ban books of all descriptions, I suspect, but I rather oppose that notion.
2007-05-16 12:15:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
you'd think that was the case. but as with all well written books...it is taken at surface value, and allowed in the classrooms. and i read these books in the 3rd grade...i didn't think of them as religious texts...i thought of them as fantasy. which they are.
2007-05-16 12:17:13 · answer #10 · answered by jillybean2213 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋