If so then why do some religious (key word is SOME) want to ban and even burn certain books simple because they disagree with the subject matter? While it is their right to verbal disagree about the book, it is not right to ban or burn it from others who want to read it.
Such as Harvest Assembly of God Church in Penn Township.
Should Intellectual Freedom be allowed?
Seriously why ban and burn books? Do you realize that doing so will lead to a world very similar to the novel Fahrenheit 451?
Source of banning and burning book is here
at the American Library Association website.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/bookburning.htm
2007-07-03 05:55:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I OPPOSE banning and burning books.
2007-07-03 11:09:37 · update #1
to poster Gilber w: I do read books
2007-07-03 11:10:10 · update #2
I don't believe in banning books. I do believe in censorship and labeling. Books should all go in their appropriate places at the Libraries and book stores. Books of sexually explicit material should not be sold or checked out by children and teenagers. Christian books should be in their own category. Political books should be in their own category. History books should be in their own category. I think the way libraries currently catalog books are appropriate. I am not one of those Bible Thumping Fundamentalist that believe all books outside the Bible are evil. I think as a Christian it is good to read books to educate yourself. I am going to go to the Library today and check out history books. I think I am going to look at the Greek and Roman empire cultures. I would recommend staying away from certain books but I would not recommend we burn books I don't approve of. If you burn the books I dislike some one else will burn the books I like and so we create a vicious circle that will only lead to a negative outcome. I say you write what you want and if I don't like it I won't read it.
2007-07-03 06:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Banning and Burning books has been happening almost since the days of the first books...
I once read about a bookstore owner that was FORCED by a court order to destroy all of his pornographic materials. This owner was convicted on multiple counts of selling such material to minors (as well as cigarettes, drug paraphenalia, etc).. his fine was the cost of the materials he was to destroy.. and the method of destruction was burning.. (he was also sentenced to 10 months in jail).
Many things are banned.. like advertisements for tobacco on television.. or advertisements the show people actually drinking alcohol on television...
Books are often banned from young impressionable children because of the psychological damage they can cause...
Communities have not only the RIGHT but the OBLIGATION to protect their citizens and they often set moral standards for materials offered for sale within the community.. they do not restrict people from traveling to another community to obtain such materials if the purchaser is of legal age...
Churches often go the "extra mile" and express to their members the preference of not reading certain materials or watching certain movies/shows.. such as my Church's notice that we should not view "R" rated movies and that we should be "very selective" on those that were rated "PG"...
The Harvest Church's Burning the Harry Potter books (I think that is what they burned if I remember right).. hmmm.. I also seem to recall that the books were purchased.. so it is their right to do with them as they please...
I do agree with you that books should not be involuntarily destroyed.. nor should they be banned from people of legal age to read.. but some ARE (for instance you cannot go out and legally purchase a book on how to construct a nuclear bomb with step by step instructions)...
But I also believe that there should be much harsher punishments for people who publish such books by obtaining illegal materials (such as pornographic pictures of children).
2007-07-03 06:24:23 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my faith, we do not ban books, magazine, etc. Why do it when there is no real way to police such a thing. Besides, all it does is encourage subversive behavior.
However, it is our belief that certain things like playboy, or playgirl come from satan. Once in a blue moon we'll have a "bookburning," as you would call it, to remove those temptations from our midst. I'm in my 30's and I haven't been to one since I was a teenager.
2007-07-03 06:07:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not familiar with that Church and what it does. We are not into banning books.
People can read what they want to read. Christians just encourage reading books that are wholesome and uplifting. The key word is encourage, not ban.
2007-07-03 06:03:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Banning certain books JUST because you don't like them is flat out retarded. If you dislike certain books or types of books ... here's a really cool idea - don't read them!!
2007-07-03 06:02:10 · answer #5 · answered by Catherine 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Extremists appear in many guises. it is always the radical , minority view that gets the press. Ban Harry Potter, make the 6 o'clock news.
2007-07-03 05:58:46 · answer #6 · answered by =42 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
religion's enemy is Universal Truth;
Here's the simply Solution for religion:
Eliminate religion from Your Life, A.S.A.P.;
Freedom of religion is Freedom FROM religion; religion is Spiritual fraud;
Universal Truth eliminated religion from Spirituality a long time ago;
Accomplish this:
Create a Private, Personal, Direct, Divine Relationship with Our Creator and save Your Soul from religion's and atheist's beliefs and start Your journey back home, to Heaven.
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Love and Believe in Our Creator;
Love and Believe in Yourself.
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2007-07-03 06:02:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely!
2007-07-03 05:59:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Religious people are the most avid readers and book buyers in the entire world. Do you read and buy books?
2007-07-03 06:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
because the people who burn them don't want their followers to think for themselves and decide that their religion is wrong and go convert to another
i don't believe in burning books
2007-07-03 05:59:51 · answer #10 · answered by buy my llama costs $1 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋