Bible & Book Banning

Comment by JJ:
They should make the bible mandatory reading. It's the best way to turn Christians into atheists.
Buy a Bible, but don’t read it, and you’ll be a Catholic.
Buy a Bible, read only what suits you and you’ll be an Evangelical.
Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an Atheist.

The comment was on a Yahoo news shared Letters to the Editor, Opinion, Florida Today, ragging on Ms. Julie Marshall, member of Moms for Liberty, and banning books. Comments either agree with the letter writer or slam her. Typical slurring Democrats, "libs," "lefties" as pedos, wanting 5-year-olds to read porno.

Some slurs on conservatives ~ the typical "trailer park" or "can't read" stuff. A lot pointing out Bible texts which would be inappropriate to read to children. Slurs on the Bible or just nicely worded putdowns. Round and round they go. Such hatred and anger from Republicans towards Democrats. Mostly mocking of GOP from others ~ might be Green, or Democrats, less hating, more laughing than hatring.

The most Irate, often ALL Caps comments from people saying there is no book banning, they can buy it and read it. Truth is that DeSantis and others in Florida, are indeed banning books from school libraries or trying to do so, causing school board vs. parents fights.

One asserted that there have been no books banned since Fanny Farmer. Odd that the American or National Association of Libraries publishes a list of banned books every year in September during banned books week. I think peeps confuse bans on books with a legal ban, removing all copies from shelves, not allowing it to be published at all.

Focus on the Family had a list of books they banned. My sister subscribed me to the mag. I used to read some of the articles. When they banned "The Color Purple," I told sis to stop subscribing me. She did anyway. I no longer read them, went straight to recycle bin along with KKK literature my ex put me on their mailing list.

From comments, I now have titles of a few books I want to read. I read part of a graphic book geared to ten year olds. That helped me understand why parents would not want it in elementary schools ~ okay, for older teens, methinks. A little too graphic for my tastes in children's books.