JamesWhitehead
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It's a slippery slope from Potter down to the utter depravity of Macbeth and The Tempest!
So, 'water into wine'? Witchcraft? Just saying...It's a slippery slope from Potter down to the utter depravity of Macbeth and The Tempest!
I think compulsory non RE lessons should be introduced to all children from 5 years of age to tell them that their parents are lying to them about god.Yes! Ban religion too!
I think compulsory non RE lessons should be introduced to all children from 5 years of age to tell them that their parents are lying to them about god.
You'd think Poland of all places would have learned something from the last right wing extremist regime to gain serious traction.Burn Again Christians.
Catholic priests in northern Poland have burned books they consider to be sacrilegious, including ones from the Harry Potter boy wizard series.
An evangelical group, the SMS from Heaven Foundation, published pictures of the burning - which took place in the city of Gdansk - on Facebook. They also show an elephant figurine and a tribal mask burning on the book pile. The Facebook post justifies the bonfire with Bible quotes condemning magic. The group sends Christian messages via SMS.
"We obey the Word," the post says (in Polish).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47771706
He seems to have included small pottery elephants?
Harry Potter banned again:
Outlining article
This was reported as something new, but apparently the books used to be the most banned in US schools - they were overtaken by books with gay themes recently. I don't know if anyone has tried casting a spell from Harry Potter, but I suspect - just a hunch - that they don't work because it's all fictional.
Well, as atheism is technically a religion according to the US Supreme Court , it should be covered in RE.I think compulsory non RE lessons should be introduced to all children from 5 years of age to tell them that their parents are lying to them about god.
I suppose they might work (in your head at least) if you really, really believed in them....
Heard there's at least one woman out there called Gretha Ogg who isn't too greatly chuffed with Terry Pratchett, for the same sdort of reasons...I say ban Harry Potter, the amount of stick I'm getting for having the same surname is beyond belief.
And of course they would have to buy the books to burn so sales would have gone up!Burning elephants, huh? I was wondering... i hear Terry Pratchett was a bit miffed the religious right haven't caught on to his books yet and got round to burning any - he said while he deplored the burning of books on principle, it would be a validation of his beleifs and a rite of passage once they got round to it. (He suspected his collaboration with Neil Gaiman. Good Omens, was the most likely candidate - as that parodies the idea of the Armageddon and the End of Days, a shibboleth that American evangelicals treat as of massive importance; on the way there, it takes pot-shots at Biblical scholarship, church history and practice, American evangelism, and the good-evil dichotomy.) another Pratchett book, Small Gods, was about the way the earthly structure of a religion gets so all-powerful and oppressive that not only the message gets lost - so does the God. A wallop not just at Christianity but also Islam, and to a lesser extent, Judaism. Maybe stuff like this is too cerebral to the book-burners...
Burning elephants, huh? I was wondering... i hear Terry Pratchett was a bit miffed the religious right haven't caught on to his books yet and got round to burning any - he said while he deplored the burning of books on principle, it would be a validation of his beleifs and a rite of passage once they got round to it. (He suspected his collaboration with Neil Gaiman. Good Omens, was the most likely candidate - as that parodies the idea of the Armageddon and the End of Days, a shibboleth that American evangelicals treat as of massive importance; on the way there, it takes pot-shots at Biblical scholarship, church history and practice, American evangelism, and the good-evil dichotomy.) another Pratchett book, Small Gods, was about the way the earthly structure of a religion gets so all-powerful and oppressive that not only the message gets lost - so does the God. A wallop not just at Christianity but also Islam, and to a lesser extent, Judaism. Maybe stuff like this is too cerebral to the book-burners...
Burning elephants, huh? I was wondering... i hear Terry Pratchett was a bit miffed the religious right haven't caught on to his books yet and got round to burning any - he said while he deplored the burning of books on principle, it would be a validation of his beleifs and a rite of passage once they got round to it. (He suspected his collaboration with Neil Gaiman. Good Omens, was the most likely candidate - as that parodies the idea of the Armageddon and the End of Days, a shibboleth that American evangelicals treat as of massive importance; on the way there, it takes pot-shots at Biblical scholarship, church history and practice, American evangelism, and the good-evil dichotomy.) another Pratchett book, Small Gods, was about the way the earthly structure of a religion gets so all-powerful and oppressive that not only the message gets lost - so does the God. A wallop not just at Christianity but also Islam, and to a lesser extent, Judaism. Maybe stuff like this is too cerebral to the book-burners...