(In response to the "Golden Compass" books)
Someone should complain that it is an insult. We don't need them to put up with this any more than a black person need to put up with a fantasy book with a secret message on hatred written by a KKK
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Sorry to tell you this, but with freedom of speach and such books like The Golden Compass as well as your made up book of hatred written by a KKK member are both allowed, particularly in the fiction section. You do have to put up with the existence of such a book, however, if you never read it (and I'm quite certain you won't) it can't have much of an effect on you life. Going around bitching and moaning about it really only hurts your cause since you're informing other people about the book and keeping it fresh in your mind even though you claim to want nothing to do with it.
Oh, stop being the politically correct thought police! On second thought, it's political correctness only when other people do it, right?
And just as a black person should have the sense to not read such a book...
I suppose this is what you get when you combine an inherent lack of sense with some strange, unfulfilled desire to be persecuted. I think if these people knew what real persecution was, they wouldn't want it so badly.
SSJPunk said: The concept of Not Reading The Book has completely escaped his grasp.
I doubt he has read it. This guy is just regurgitating what his preacher has been spouting out at them in church etc.
Also: I didn't know anything about these "hidden messages" until the fundies started crying persecution. I was going the leave the books and movies be, thinking they were just more Harry Potter kids tales... Now I'm going definitely to read them all.
Do fundies ever really READ books or do they just complain about whar everyone else is reading? I mean it's pretty obvious from what we see over here that they don't really read the Bible, but their complaints about other books seem to be pretty much third-hand from reviews written off other reviews.
I read that fantasy book about this guy made out of dirt and this naked chick eating fruit, and the story goes on about people drowned by the millions, and whole villages wiped out. It goes on and on about old dead people, and never really gets to the point, except that the Boss likes dead people. Badly composed, badly written, and full of hate messages, secret and otherwise. It's on my list of books not worth reading.
Golden Compass :
Lo and behold! The "Banned in Fundistan" imprimatur! Better publicity for Pullman than anything else.
The first book in the series isn't even that big on the religious front. That doesn't really come into play until the second and third books.
Always so threatened by fiction, these people.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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