I read the linked forum threads and articles till my eyes glazed over... I read the entire original wacko article on the website that referred to HP and LOTR as evil.
1. The guy just stated his opinion condemning everyone who basically does not think exactly as he does. I did not see any reasonable or logical argument from the Bible or anything. Just a bunch of propaganda techniques. So I can just dismiss that as that idiot's opinion.
So my more or less innocent question still stands. I mean a Bible or otherwise kind of justification for opposing LotR. Because beliefs are just that, beliefs. Like the T-shirt I had in college:
Quote:
|
Everyone has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer!
|
2. Almost everyone (at least many of the replies) on B-D forum said that guy has no right to say [fill in the blank here as to what he said].
Hello? Assuming the web-ranter-dude was from the USA, he has a right to his freedom of speech just as much as the B-D'ers. Well, actually more, because I noticed the
Wight stomped one of the threads closed because it was off-topic. That is
his right as forum moderator, because this place (forum) is not free speech. So everyone who said "he has no right" is just as "wrong" as the web-ranter.
3. On the thread about LOTR being banned from a school, it turned out on the second page of the thread (hard to remember, both eyes and half my brain was glazed over by that time) that it was a false alarm, and it was really HP that was targeted. People were still ranting about it.
4. In a private school, at least (presumably it was some religious one), the principal may indeed have the right and/or authority (depending on the charter) to 'ban' materials such as books based on content. I won't get into any details, but all the B-D'ers who were, again, yelling "What gives them the right?" were just
down right wrong!
I even noted one person said, Hey, this is the USA, you can do anything you want! (not an exact quote, but that was the gist of it.) To which I say, what? Are you reading that in the US Constitution? Or is that some flyer from the People's Republic of California? Ha ha, maybe it is the Zeroth (0th) Amendment: We the people can do anything we want--after all, this is America.