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Libraries Release Most-Censored Books List
destinyland writes "The American Library Association released this year's list of the most-frequently censored books. (Included in the top 10 are two best-selling novels — Twilight and The Hunger Games — as well as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.) The annual list celebrates 'the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment,' according to the library association, highlighting 'the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship.' Interestingly, seven of the ten most-censored books are now available on Amazon's Kindle — more than twice as many as last year."
In this age of hyperbole, where everything is worked up to be a huge scandal (Obama is the antichrist, Bush is Hitler, and social security is a Ponzi scheme), it's worth mentioning that censorship here is not government censorship, it means someone decided to remove that book from their library. All these materials are easily available elsewhere.
And frankly, if they're going to remove something from their library, Twilight is a great choice. Bravo, friends, bravo.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Oh, I don't know -- maybe something to do with all of the young children engaging in "erotic play". That sort of thing tends to make people uncomfortable.
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heya,
Err, which version of the Bible are you reading...?
I'm fairly sure the bible never commands anybody to kill non-believers. In fact, last time I checked, it stated quite unequivocally "Thou shalt not murder". (Exodus 20:13). Note that it says murder, not kill (http://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/001102_ThouShaltNotMurder.html).
The giving/taking of life is God's alone to command - and barring some explicit command from him (as happened in the OT), to take a life is considered by most Christians to be tantamount to blasphemy and trying to supplant God's role.
So sorry, but your post is really full of ignorance.
Cheers,
Victor
The article lists the most *challenged* books. Challenging a book doesn't result in it being censored. The title of the article is incredibly misleading.
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I'm fairly sure the bible never commands anybody to kill non-believers.
Give Deu. 17:3-5 a quick read. You don't get much more explicit than that.
Honestly, I don't see how you could have missed it. Joshua slaughtered just about everyone in Canaan -- with more than a bit of divine assistance.
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Does anyone else find it a tad ironic that 1984 is among the books "censored"? Maybe they should remove Fahrenheit 451 as well. :)
I would go with enforcing conversion of the title to "Celsius 233". I am the SI unit Nazi
not a iota or a dot will go away [from OT] before the world ends * Matthew 5:18-19
not a single letter of the OT can be invalid * Luke 16:17
all scripture counts * 2 Timothy 3:16
it is not up to personal interpretation * 2 Peter 20-21
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For twilight I think it is banned (partially) due to religious groups. But I think it is mostly from high school English teachers who do not want to read essay after essay about twilight from every girl. When they assign them a book report.
I remember a college class on creative writing the first day of class the professor stated she didn't want any stories about God or Jesus. Not because she had a problem with religion, but she previously taught in salt lake city Utah, and every story she read was about God, and was sick of hearing the same thing over and over again in a creative writting class.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.