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Banned Books Week 2009!
Border Reiver:
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--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 12 Sep 2009, 22:47 ---There is this one that has a lot of people using magic, there is murder, slavery, rape, lynchings, genocide
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none of that stuff sounds subversive, seems like typical government policy to me
thanks to Harry Potter I am convinced that wizards run the government though
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No, just stuff dealing with their own little world.
look out! Ninjas!:
They can't do that, even. The bestest wizard in the world is all like "hey, the bad guy's back" and they're just sittin' there with their fingers in their ears goin' "la la la can't hear you la la", and then when they see it with their own eyes even they don't do anything and then Voldermort completely takes over and it's up to a seventeen year old kid who ain't even finished High School to save everyone's arses.
Caleb:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 12 Sep 2009, 22:47 ---Oh, The Bible. ...Shit.
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Many times in the past different versions of the Bible have been banned. Of course nowadays it is a much different story.
Nodaisho:
Let me guess, it was by people that preferred their version of the bible?
Or places where Christianity was/is illegal, but I was thinking more euro-centric, since that is where most of the concerned parents I have heard of come from.
Border Reiver:
The earliest banned versions of the Bible were translations of the Latin versions into the local language. Something about avoiding mistranslations - getting the word of Christ wrong (which I find amusing since Jesus would have likely been speaking Aramaic or Hebrew, the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and many of the books of the New Testament were written in Greek).
Or it might have been something sinister like restricting knowledge to those persons who could speak Latin.
In the end the "banned versions" of the Bible are still with us - so we can see just how effective the banning of books can be - if you don't get all the copies it doesn't work.
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