reply to post by 44soulslayer
Millions of children have gained knowledge from Dr. Suess, as these books help many children learn to read and through this they gain knowledge.
Mein Kampf ? The knowledge that can be gained by that book is the knowledge of how twisted a person's mind can become. It's a possibilty that had
more people read it certain events in history may have been avoided, or carried out to a lessor degree.
The bible ? The knowledge that people gain from the bible varies as greatly as people do. But i would say that even atheists gain knowledge from it,
seems they gain the knowledge of what they disagree with and choose not to believe. Some people gain the knowledge of how they may (in thier opinion)
live a better life.
The Koran ? I must admit that this is something that i have never read and have little knowledge of. I Think that like the bible it gives some people
the knowledge of how they may (again in thier opinion) live a better life.
Yes it is my belief that all books pocess some innate sense of knowledge, in one form or another. People vary and what they take from a book varies,
that is something that will never change. There will always be those that take the wrong meaning from a book, or take what was written to help people
and turn it around to hurt people, but that is something that can not be changed.
You say that 99.99% of books are ok, but shouldn't we destroy the .01% that would sway people in the wrong direction. Who decides which .01 % of the
books should be destroyed ? What if they decide that one of the books that need to be destroyed happens to be a book that you believe to be of great
importance ?
Mein Kampf may have a bad effect on certain people, and lead them in the wrong direction, but it may also prevent another man like hitler from ever
having so much power again. A book about ted bundy may give an already twisted mind some ideas, but it may save countless women from ever falling prey
to someone like that.
We all take from books what we do, some of it good, some of it bad. But we all deserve and have the right to seek knowledge. As i stated earlier my
issue was not with the fact that it was a bible that was burned, but the fact that any book was burned.
I am new here and i guess i'm still naive about certain things here. I see that i still haven't learned to tell the difference between a valid
thread and a bait thread. I wrongly assumed that it was a thread about someone that was concerned about books being burned, but now see that it was
just a bait thread to bash religion in one form or another. You people have fun, bye.
