Like the Taliban, some U.S. parents fear free minds.
Poor sod. He hasn't yet figured out that the right to censor what other people do is one of our most cherished rights .... whaddya mean, "It's not"? It's right there in the Constitution ... well. I guess it isn't. But still, it's a tradition! We've been doing it for 200 years and change, and why on earth would we change now? It's our god given right to yank stuff we don't like out of the public and have public burnings and all sorts of fun stuff like that! (Evil Harry Potter! EEeeeeeevil! Consorting with witches is just EEeeeeevil! And don't give me none of that stuff about the apostle Paul and the witch of endor or wherever she was the witch of. We know better, right?)
(It was only intended as "an exercise for [their] local congregation." How ... quaint. How very traditional. And he didn't realize it would attract national attention. Right. And he thinks we should only be concerned with things Christian and not things spiritual. How very bigoted of him. [Harry Potter is spiritual? Really? What on earth did I miss?] I would imagine, somehow, that America's "problem" with "orthodox Christianity" comes with said Orthodox Christianity's intolerance of ... just about everything else, really.)
Posted by iain at January 04, 2002 01:41 AMComments