Run! Books!
A bunch of conservative wags voted on a list of the 10 most harmful books ever written.
The list prompted one liberal wag to ask: why are conservatives afraid of books? Maybe he misheard them? ("Worms, Roxanne! I was afraid of worms!").
It's a valid question, on the surface. On the one hand, one should should never fear ideas, in and of themselves. Especially not Christians, who are armed with the eternal truth of the gospel. On the other hand ... check out that list. There's some scary stuff there. All the world's hateful "isms" are represented. Communism (Mao, The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), Nazism (Mein Kampf), feminism (The Feminine Mystique) and many flavors of atheism and humanism (pretty much the rest.)
Put all those social constructs together and you've probably accounted for about 65 or 70 million executions of innocents through the last two centuries or so. Perhaps that's a low guess: add up the deaths from Stalin (a communist), Hitler (a Nazi) and abortions (the end-result of feminism and humanist thinking) and you might well account for more than 100 million dead. However you slice it, that's pretty scary.
Put all those social constructs together and you've probably accounted for about 65 or 70 million executions of innocents through the last two centuries or so. Perhaps that's a low guess: add up the deaths from Stalin (a communist), Hitler (a Nazi) and abortions (the end-result of feminism and humanist thinking) and you might well account for more than 100 million dead. However you slice it, that's pretty scary.
posted by chilli at 7:37 PM
4 Comments:
haha~
I bookmarked some of those titles, it may be an interesting read, lol
I find the very idea "harmful books" for the general public quite funny, unless, of course, you want them to be fearful and uneducated in some areas.
P.S. Most of those books were perceived as holy bible in comunist Russia a few decades back; not surprisingly they're rated as harmful among the conservative capitalists :P
So they don’t like the Communist book, the sex book, or the Democracy book. Figures, maybe they would find authors that were more their speed in Saudi Arabia and Iran, where you are free to burn as many books as you want.
How the hell is Kinsey harmful to Christians? And Darwin’s book isn't an attack on Christianity any more than Christopher Columbus proving that the Earth was round.
In fact, I would venture to say the two most harmful books ever written were the Bible and then the Quran respectively.
Actually, since the Bible tells one how to get their sorry azz saved from hell, it is the most valuable book ever written. I would venture to say that it is those who misunderstand it that are harmful.
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