People of the Book who Ban the Book

[Stavros]

"A Mississippi mayor has told the Madison County Library to remove LGBTQ+ books from its shelves or lose funding. One of the books singled out as an example was The Queer Bible, a collection of LGBTQ+ history essays edited by Jack Guinness. Ridgeland’s Republican mayor, Gene McGee, has refused to release funds to the library until “homosexual materials” are withdrawn."

This is the key quote from Gene-

"Tonja Johnson, executive director of the Madison County Library System, said when she told McGee that the library served the whole community, he replied that he only served “the great Lord above”."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...british-author

To which one offers God's Covenant with Man-
He sent out Christy Columb and he carne back with a jailbird's unbespokables in his beak...

The next step in the war against Reason would be to Burn the books, not just to ban them, indeed, a French language school in Ontario did just that only last year, even if the old books in question were considered offensive because of their treatment of Canada's First Nations. Frank Furedi, no shrinking violet he, though he documents some other examples, quotes Milton -He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.” But doesn't add for the purposes of information alone that during the reign of the man Milton called 'Our Chief of Men'

"Excluding corrupt translations of the Bible imported from the Netherlands, Catholic primers, missals and a liturgical devotion to the Virgin Mary, 60 identified printed books, pamphlets and broadsheets, and three newspapers were ordered to be burned by civil, military and ecclesiastical authorities in England between 1640 and 1660. In addition, Parliament ordered a number of letters, particularly those maligning its military commanders, to be burned."
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/...england-91463/

Furedi's article can be found here-
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/534350-burn...anada-ontario/

[thombergeron]

When the book in question is a random collection of fragmentary testimonials from Bronze Age fanatics that's been mistranslated by other fanatics over the course of 4 or 5 thousand years, then the result is likely to be largely nonsensical. Which in my mind is at least part of what Joyce was getting at...

As another example, thousands of modern-day fanatics in Phoenix, Arizona, will allegedly no longer be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven since the Catholic Priest who baptized them used the English first-person plural pronoun instead of the first-person singular pronoun. Kind of a bummer for those folks.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/us/pa...ion/index.html

[Stavros]

As another example, thousands of modern-day fanatics in Phoenix, Arizona, will allegedly no longer be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven since the Catholic Priest who baptized them used the English first-person plural pronoun instead of the first-person singular pronoun. Kind of a bummer for those folks.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/us/pa...ion/index.html

Gawdelp us all, or him, or me, or she, or I. In the waters of babalong