Monday, January 7, 2008

Religion and Books

I think that the ban on some books is a good idea, but the ban on some others is just stupid. When you ban a book, what do people look for? Do they look for content, or for language, or do they look for things like racism? When they look for things like that, they look for how much is in there, and how little.
Now, some places have little to no tolerance to things like that, while some have a great amount of tolerance to it. When they look to ban a book, they also look to see what the church and the rest of the industry would say. Let’s take the book, The Lorax for example. The industry in California, and Oregon didn’t want it in their areas, because it promoted not chopping down trees. Some people out there, their life depends on the tree cutting business. The church might take a community and try to ban the Harry Potter series for example. When you look at it, that’s what the church wants, and if they want that to happen, then do it in the homes. These are the things that are OK, but there are some of the stupider ones. For example, The Adventures of Alice in Wonder Land, The people decided to ban it because they think that animals shouldn’t have the same status as humans, even in a fictional story. Another really odd one is the book, Where’s Waldo? The book was banned because in one of the pages, there is a woman with a bikini on, but no top. The question is how hard did they look to find the woman? I think that the people, when they have nothing better to do, try to find books to ban. This is something that I wish that people didn’t do.
I think that people shouldn’t ban books in a community unless there is a good reason. I think that is really stupid when they ban a book that is not necessary to ban. The books shouldn’t be banned unless if it isn’t necessary. For example, The Lorax is an Ok book to ban in some places, but you should be careful where you ban it. In some places though, the book should be banned through families. What I mean is that the families should take into consideration and then ban the book if they want to.

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