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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 308993" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I don't know that we can have this discussion without it being political or religious. There are obvious religious undertones for wanting to ban such books as "Twilight" or "Harry Potter". in my humble opinion, it's small minded and shows that people aren't as strong in their beliefs as they profess to be. If what they believe is so correct, and their relationships with their children are so good, why worry about how their child will interpret a book? Certainly they should feel good enough about their children's beliefs to not worry that reading a book is going to turn them to the dark side. If their child's religious or moral beliefs are so fragile, they have a lot more than a book to worry about.</p><p></p><p>Somehow I never got to read any Mark Twain when I was young. I do remember from time to time throughout my life that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been put on banned books lists. I was watching a show about Twain a while back, and finally read Huckleberry Finn. At first I was quite bothered by <em>that</em> word, especially at the number of times that it was used. But it made me think out why people would want to ban the book instead of using it as a tool to show how far we had come. After all, Twain was quite the civil libertarian in his day, and we would <em>never</em> tolerate such language today. What I ended up deciding was that Tom Sawyer was a difficult child and I was glad I didn't know him because I would have had a hard time with his tall tales. The use of <em>that</em> word didn't bother me, it made me think about a sensitive subject in ways I hadn't before - because my personal belief system is strong enough to not be turned to the dark side by a book with that word used repeatedly in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 308993, member: 99"] I don't know that we can have this discussion without it being political or religious. There are obvious religious undertones for wanting to ban such books as "Twilight" or "Harry Potter". in my humble opinion, it's small minded and shows that people aren't as strong in their beliefs as they profess to be. If what they believe is so correct, and their relationships with their children are so good, why worry about how their child will interpret a book? Certainly they should feel good enough about their children's beliefs to not worry that reading a book is going to turn them to the dark side. If their child's religious or moral beliefs are so fragile, they have a lot more than a book to worry about. Somehow I never got to read any Mark Twain when I was young. I do remember from time to time throughout my life that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been put on banned books lists. I was watching a show about Twain a while back, and finally read Huckleberry Finn. At first I was quite bothered by [I]that[/I] word, especially at the number of times that it was used. But it made me think out why people would want to ban the book instead of using it as a tool to show how far we had come. After all, Twain was quite the civil libertarian in his day, and we would [I]never[/I] tolerate such language today. What I ended up deciding was that Tom Sawyer was a difficult child and I was glad I didn't know him because I would have had a hard time with his tall tales. The use of [I]that[/I] word didn't bother me, it made me think about a sensitive subject in ways I hadn't before - because my personal belief system is strong enough to not be turned to the dark side by a book with that word used repeatedly in it. [/QUOTE]
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