Hi everyone -- banning the books

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 159632

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tesha" <Jan at ...> wrote:

Ken:
> >Liberal atheists are as likely to ban things as conservative
> >religionists.

Tesha:
> No, I do believe you're quite wrong. Liberals would like you to
> read everything, and cogitate deeply and discover your own belief. And
> as an Agnostic, I feel that anything that makes you be a better person
> is fine - but it is your "doing" - not your "saying" that makes it so.


Geoff:
Speaking purely personally, I would agree with the sentiment of your last
sentence except that I believe that the "anything" has to be from a
Christian angle.

Tesha:
> In fact the "Liberal atheists' would probably do just the opposite of
> "ban" books, they're likely to hand you a book and say.."What do you
> think now?"
>
> HP and all the other banned books should be the FIRST you read!
>
> So what would you say the world can learn from HP that would make
> better people of all of us? Loyality? Strength? Study?
>
> what else?

Geoff:
Well, obviously:

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest
of these is love."
(1 Corinthians 13:13 New International vesion of the Bible)

And, before you say it, I agree that's true for anybody.....