text: Texas pastor demands public library 'purge' vampire books: I think it's dangerous for kids, page 5
  posted on Sep, 3 2014 @ 12:52 AM
  Yep. Awesome isn't it. Welcome to the new age. :-)
  posted on Sep, 3 2014 @ 01:02 AM
  The Bible. One of the worst mind viruses to have ever plagued mankind. Besides, it may have just been a Roman Psyop according to some. Why let it continue?
  Or, at the very least, a historical preamble explaining to the reader it is all make believe, on par with Harry Potter for accuracy and truth. With a giant fiction tag on every cover.
  At least in Harry Potter, voldemort, the bad guy, was the evil genocidal madman with a racial superiority complex. In the Bible, the genocidal maniac, with a racial superiority as a vice, is God himself, with over 2 million killings directly attributed to him.
  edit on 3-9-2014 by Not Authorized because: (no reason given)
  i agree with this pastor! we should get rid of all books that could potentially harm children! let us ban this book from all libraries, okay? inside, this book, a man gets drunk and rapes his two daughters. a bunch of cousins get down with each other. a man watches a woman wash her self on a roof. he then sends her husband to the front lines to have him killed so he can seduce her. another man doesn't want to get his brother's widow pregnant so he spills it on the ground. another passage exhorts men to glorify their wives breasts! a woman performs a strip tease for her step father and in return, she receives a man's head on a silver platter. there also many, many violent massacres and murders in this book too! how can we allow this book into our libraries and corrupt our children. wonder which book this is?
  I think someone should point this out and insist that religious books should also come under this potential ban for their content and see what these pastors have to say about it.
  Or better still, start a similar movement to have the bible banned from schools, libraries and any other public building where any child might find it and pick it up.
  posted on Sep, 3 2014 @ 04:10 AM
  interesting, i haven't read them either.
  i have no use for vamps and where's, let alone zombo's.
  so enlighten me. what are they about?
  Well, they tend to be about good vs evil. In the case of the Harry Potter books this includes magic. I can see how that might be threatening to children. Oh wait, no I don't.
  posted on Sep, 3 2014 @ 04:44 AM
  Well, I don't know, Brit.
  Seemed kind of tame to me...perhaps you could word it a bit more strongly?? Be assertive, man!!
  What is a Cleveland pastor doing bitching about a library in Austin, TX? Gha...I suppose I'll have to actually LOOK at his idiot demands to find out. ....... So, I did. Apparently this Cleveland is in Texas?
  Whatever. Texas gets more bizarre by the week.
  edit on 9/3/2014 by BuzzyWigs because: (no reason given)
  posted on Sep, 3 2014 @ 04:49 AM
  Anyone remember in the 80's and the religious community damned D&D for being evil and satanic?.
  Lol morons just made more of us play the game (Oh I miss my D&D sessions).
  Heh... sorry about that BuzzyWigs (I love that name by the way. It sounds happy!). I just get rather tired of people claiming faith in God, and displaying a total lack of faith by their actions. It makes it all too easy for those with genuine, and robust belief, to be tarred with a brush which ought never to touch us. Normal, or at least marginally polite service will be resumed shortly
  posted on Sep, 3 2014 @ 08:31 AM
  My original post was just a thought I had, not prompted by this thread but by something else I had read a few days previous. You may notice I said 'as a species'.
  Maybe fantasy is the thing that makes us able to cope with the mess humanity have created in reality. And in a way these books are thinking on how a society can be with more then one dominant specie and maybe how humanity would have to change if something more advanced came along.
  I was addressing the idea of the supernatural concerning children. So any thoughts regarding coping with the mess or how humanity would have to change is perhaps not so relevant. I merely wonder why we do this and what is the impact on society?
  I would say that reading Dune might be good for any person who wants to put himself/herself in the role of a prophet and understand how predestination can affect a person psyche.
  I would say that there are no prophets and no such thing as predestination. However I too wonder how this type of literature might affect the psyche.
  If you want to understand how the fabric of fate can be woven with life:s being the thread: then Robert Jordan:s Wheel of time is a good book that also takes up the selfishness being the biggest problem to unite a world against a common threat that is going to destroy all humans.
  I don't want to understand the fabric of fate...don't believe in it. There are plenty of books dealing with the theme of selfishness that don't require supernatural fantasy. They can be just as delightful.
  These books are able to in a way thru imagination give insight on current human society and the problems in it.
  Why is the supernatural necessary? Nothing you have said requires the supernatural. I have been talking about children and wondering why we fill their heads with so much fantasy, nothing more.