Let's Ban Harry Potter! Again!
Apr. 19th, 2006 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Yes. Let's replace some non-religious books in public school libraries with specifically-religious books. It's one thing to put another series of books on the shelves next to each other. It's a completely different thing to have one replace another. No. No. No.
I'd rather not have the Left Behind books in public school libraries...but I wouldn't insist that they'd be banned any sooner than I'd call for banning books like Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising Books. Or Harry Potter. They're all fiction.
“Maybe parents should be parents and read the book first,” Davis said. “If they find it fun, exciting and adventurous, like thousands of people across the world, then they should allow their children to read it, in school or out.”
Mallory said she has been contacted by other Christian parents who were concerned about the content of the books. On her complaint form, she suggested they be replaced by C.S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia” series or Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind: the Kids” series.
She admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
“I’ve put a lot of work into what I’ve studied and read. I think it would be hypocritical for me to read all the books, honestly. I don’t agree with what’s in them. I don’t have to read an entire pornographic magazine to know it’s obscene,” Mallory said.
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Yes. Let's replace some non-religious books in public school libraries with specifically-religious books. It's one thing to put another series of books on the shelves next to each other. It's a completely different thing to have one replace another. No. No. No.
I'd rather not have the Left Behind books in public school libraries...but I wouldn't insist that they'd be banned any sooner than I'd call for banning books like Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising Books. Or Harry Potter. They're all fiction.
“Maybe parents should be parents and read the book first,” Davis said. “If they find it fun, exciting and adventurous, like thousands of people across the world, then they should allow their children to read it, in school or out.”
Mallory said she has been contacted by other Christian parents who were concerned about the content of the books. On her complaint form, she suggested they be replaced by C.S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia” series or Tim LaHaye’s “Left Behind: the Kids” series.
She admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
“I’ve put a lot of work into what I’ve studied and read. I think it would be hypocritical for me to read all the books, honestly. I don’t agree with what’s in them. I don’t have to read an entire pornographic magazine to know it’s obscene,” Mallory said.
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Date: 2006-04-20 07:44 am (UTC)garbagejunk food. "Specifically religious" or not, it's of no more consequence to Christians and Christianity than HP is to all the magically-attuned beliefs out there. So really, it's just irrelevant hypocrisy in motion. Think about it!As for me, if something like a TV or book series is a) new or b) popular, chances are very good that I'm not going to be partaking in them- sometimes just because of the reasons above! It's a weird principle, but it works. =P