I get what they're doing here, and more power to them. It is indeed a taste of Karma. The people who began pushing to ban books obviously never imagined themselves on the receiving end of that policy. That said, no individual parent should be able to ban ANY book form ANY library.
The Book of Mormon is up next? Just wait until people read the part where God "cursed the Lamanites with a skin of darkness" to prevent intermarriage with the Nephites. Or how it was a joy to be "white and delightsome." *rolls eyes*
There are different kinds of nastiness. Racism is just another form of cruelty.
This is good and I fully support the tactic. The right wingers need to be handed a taste of their own medicine. How can you call for banning books that violate the morality of your holy book when your holy book itself is rife with the most egregious examples of things you want banned? You cannot use the Bible as the justification to remove a picture book about two male penguins being dads together when the Bible graphically describes actual rape.
That is not to say that the right wingers won’t use this incident to complain that the Bible is not allowed in schools, as they already do.
Banning books is the sort of thing an authority does when it can't do the whole 'convert or die' thing. The idea here is to kill your ability to think for yourself, since they can't just kill you outright.
The special pleading Christian Nationalist jerks who would ban the Bible if it wasn't the Bible would probably be totally on board with banning the Koran 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦.
I wouldn't mind seeing creation books getting banned from schools and libraries only because it contains made up lies and fantasies.
BTW, in one creation book for children titled "In the Days of Noah," (See the book in URL. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/in-the-days-of-noah_gloria-clanin/399154/item/5077159/#idiq=5077159&edition=4338738) there is a depiction of a large man beating his mother while stealing a bag of gold from her in a scene where the town gets drowned out by the fabled Noah's Flood while the inhabitants try to salvage all of the gold and other treasures they have instead of heading for the hills.
If a right minded parent saw this so-called children's book and found what's inside it, there's no doubt she will be so horrified by what she saw that she will vehemently call the book to be banned from schools and libraries due to graphic depictions of violence against women.
And this book is supposed to be made for kids for crying out loud!
Well, hardy-har-har! Believers get bit on the tailbone as the result of a law they themselves likely called for and promoted! Without doubt, SOMEONE will now step up and say, "Oh, but we DIDN'T mean that the bible should be a banned book! The bible is HOLY™, The Inspired Word of God™," et cetera, et cetera. I note that the list of offensive verses is restricted to the book of Genesis. FSM knows, there are PLENTY of other problematic passages in that benighted book. Ezekiel 23:20 comes to mind.
Expect a full-on argument about this in the halls of Utah government. Just how fact-oriented it will be may be debatable, but in any case, followup would be appreciated.
OT: At the Ottumwa (Iowa) Pride Fest...creepy thumpers across the street tried to engage with me, using 'science'. "Isaac Newton was the smartest scientist ever, and he was Xtian." Yep, he was smart, not necessarily smartest, and in his day many of the things we know now we didn't know then. "Science comes from the church." Nope, they repress science, have for millennia. "Galileo was..." Persecuted by the religious nutters. You people follow a mythology that didn't know where the sun goes at night much less what it's made of. But I served to preserve your Right to spew your nonsense....and it lets the rest of us know which crazies to watch out for. 😁
Pope Francis warned the Vatican’s missionary fundraisers on Saturday not to allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship.
Francis appeared to refer to a recent Associated Press investigation into financial transfers at the U.S. branch of the Pontifical Mission Societies: The former head oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million from a quasi endowment fund and donations into a nonprofit and private equity fund that he created and now heads that invests in church-run agribusinesses in Africa.
"TRUMP BUCKS" gone. It was a scam where you bought them and when Trump took over the country they would pay off like 10,000 to one. Several lost thousands. Seen now on MSNBC.
I get what they're doing here, and more power to them. It is indeed a taste of Karma. The people who began pushing to ban books obviously never imagined themselves on the receiving end of that policy. That said, no individual parent should be able to ban ANY book form ANY library.
The Book of Mormon is up next? Just wait until people read the part where God "cursed the Lamanites with a skin of darkness" to prevent intermarriage with the Nephites. Or how it was a joy to be "white and delightsome." *rolls eyes*
There are different kinds of nastiness. Racism is just another form of cruelty.
This is good and I fully support the tactic. The right wingers need to be handed a taste of their own medicine. How can you call for banning books that violate the morality of your holy book when your holy book itself is rife with the most egregious examples of things you want banned? You cannot use the Bible as the justification to remove a picture book about two male penguins being dads together when the Bible graphically describes actual rape.
That is not to say that the right wingers won’t use this incident to complain that the Bible is not allowed in schools, as they already do.
So... how're those leopards working out for you, Utah?
Banning books is the sort of thing an authority does when it can't do the whole 'convert or die' thing. The idea here is to kill your ability to think for yourself, since they can't just kill you outright.
The special pleading Christian Nationalist jerks who would ban the Bible if it wasn't the Bible would probably be totally on board with banning the Koran 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦.
I wouldn't mind seeing creation books getting banned from schools and libraries only because it contains made up lies and fantasies.
BTW, in one creation book for children titled "In the Days of Noah," (See the book in URL. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/in-the-days-of-noah_gloria-clanin/399154/item/5077159/#idiq=5077159&edition=4338738) there is a depiction of a large man beating his mother while stealing a bag of gold from her in a scene where the town gets drowned out by the fabled Noah's Flood while the inhabitants try to salvage all of the gold and other treasures they have instead of heading for the hills.
If a right minded parent saw this so-called children's book and found what's inside it, there's no doubt she will be so horrified by what she saw that she will vehemently call the book to be banned from schools and libraries due to graphic depictions of violence against women.
And this book is supposed to be made for kids for crying out loud!
Well, hardy-har-har! Believers get bit on the tailbone as the result of a law they themselves likely called for and promoted! Without doubt, SOMEONE will now step up and say, "Oh, but we DIDN'T mean that the bible should be a banned book! The bible is HOLY™, The Inspired Word of God™," et cetera, et cetera. I note that the list of offensive verses is restricted to the book of Genesis. FSM knows, there are PLENTY of other problematic passages in that benighted book. Ezekiel 23:20 comes to mind.
Expect a full-on argument about this in the halls of Utah government. Just how fact-oriented it will be may be debatable, but in any case, followup would be appreciated.
𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦, ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 “𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ, 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦.”
Holy shit! They can be taught!
OT: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled that TN's anti-drag law is unconstitutional. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/03/trump-judge-tennessee-anti-drag-law-unconstitutional
OT: At the Ottumwa (Iowa) Pride Fest...creepy thumpers across the street tried to engage with me, using 'science'. "Isaac Newton was the smartest scientist ever, and he was Xtian." Yep, he was smart, not necessarily smartest, and in his day many of the things we know now we didn't know then. "Science comes from the church." Nope, they repress science, have for millennia. "Galileo was..." Persecuted by the religious nutters. You people follow a mythology that didn't know where the sun goes at night much less what it's made of. But I served to preserve your Right to spew your nonsense....and it lets the rest of us know which crazies to watch out for. 😁
OT:
My innocence has been shattered. How could missionaries or any of god's messengers be corrupt?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECbTNifU8AACz4n.jpg
Pope Francis warned the Vatican’s missionary fundraisers on Saturday not to allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship.
Francis appeared to refer to a recent Associated Press investigation into financial transfers at the U.S. branch of the Pontifical Mission Societies: The former head oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million from a quasi endowment fund and donations into a nonprofit and private equity fund that he created and now heads that invests in church-run agribusinesses in Africa.
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-fundraising-missionary-81ac4d23fb2f6a9a4447df4fc83fc8f9
OT
"NASA's Mighty Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Defies Odds, Soars to 50th Flight"
https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/nasa-mighty-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-defies-odds-soars-to-50th-flight-article-99508110
Religion simply cannot compete with reality via science and technology. Shit, the bible doesn't even mention Mars; has no idea it exists.
OT: I must humbly confess I've been wrong about the Catholic church. There really ARE Immacualte Conceptions. See? https://www.insider.com/two-catholic-nuns-went-on-missionary-trips-come-back-pregnant-2019-11
"TRUMP BUCKS" gone. It was a scam where you bought them and when Trump took over the country they would pay off like 10,000 to one. Several lost thousands. Seen now on MSNBC.
Huzzah, or maybe not. Le Marquis de Sade has to rolling over in his grave to be included in the list that the Bible is on. Ou peut-être pas.