An interesting side-bar. I'm almost 50... I always believed I would live to see a time when our Bibles would be illegal in this country.
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Considering that we have the First Amendment (which guarantees the right of free speech -- including publishing) and the fact that 85% of the country still identifies as Christian, what in the world makes you think that any such bizarre thing would happen? Nothing in reality, that's for sure -- just your own paranoid and/or martyrish delusions.
~David D.G.
Well then my friend, you should be thankful there are people out there constantly fighting to keep your country from becoming a theocracy of any kind. You may not like them trying to preserve the rights of the people your religion hates but you can at least appreciate them trying to preserve your rights in the face of people who's religion hates you.
The only argument I have against it is when you make something taboo, it gets REAL popular.
Like drugs.
Illegal bibles would become more valuable than say, a toasted cheese sandwich with a face burned onto it. Thelma Todd, Morey Amsterdam; it doesn't matter - call it Jesus or Virgin Mary and watch it skyrocket on eBay.
I actually used Bibles being illegal as a plot point in a story once.
Catholic Bibles, though -- and banned by fundies. That seemed a bit more realistic than a nefarious secular-humanist conspiracy.
Freedom of religion, bitch.
Ten bucks says this guy is one of those people who believes that Fundies is an evil, Satanic cult with the sole agenda of destroying Christianity in the USA.
That would go about as well as the war on drugs. Replace hydroponics with printers, and chronic with KJV...
The bible cartel would emerge and make a killing.
So, by now he would be 65 (assuming he is still around) and there is not even the shred of an argument of making the Bible illegal in the US. I don't know how long he expects to live, but I highly doubt him experiencing the Bible being outlawed will ever come true.
Still very relevant today 14 years later. Forcing it on people like in schools and government is still unconstitutional in the US. Banning it from homes and churches also still is. The same for the Kuran, the Baghavad Gita, or whatever.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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