10 Most Harmful Books

[rocklobster]

manualman:

Nobody has a burn barrel going here guys.

Actually, a few churches were burning Harry Potter books back when the first movie came out. When that happened, I thought I had moved to Nazi Germany for a moment .

 

[WolfStar777]

What I want to know is why there is such controversy over the Harry Potter books and movies yet no one bats an eyelash over the Lord of the Rings series. I’m a fan of both, could someone satisfy my curiousity?

 

[pnewton]

rocklobster:

Actually, a few churches were burning Harry Potter books back when the first movie came out.

In America, we are free as individuals to do what we want with our own property

 

[rocklobster]

pnewton:

In America, we are free as individuals to do what we want with our own property

Okay, I agree with that. But the REAL reason they did it was because they thought the books were Satanic and they didn’t want the stuff influencing children. It’s doubtful that most of them even READ the books! And what’s more, this kind of attention only serves to increase sales in the offensive material (look at Dan Brown).
And while I’m bringing him up, Dan Brown would be a great writer if he’d get rid of that axe he has to grind with Christianity (and especially us Catholics). I wonder if he buys that schtick that Jack Chick and Maria Monk came up with. I wouldn’t be surprised.

 

[hermit]

Chris Jacobsen:

Any books by Teilhard de Chardin. His books were given to seminary students to read in the 1960’s and destroyed the seminarians’ Faith. His books are incredibly evil.

Anyone whose faith was destroyed by reading Teilhards works never had any faith to begin with. They are the ones Jesus mentioned in the parable of the sower-the seeds that fell on shallow ground.

 

[Glenn_Lego]

pnewton:

The Scoffield Reference Bible - It was a prime mover in the rise of popularity of Rature theology.

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance. Just lifting it can throw out a back and God forbid you drop it on your toe.

The Sunday Chicago Tribune Newspaper will do that also! Glenn Lego

 

[Dolores49]

Strider:

Are you aware of the things Kinsey DID? Not only was he sick, sick, sck, but, for the reasons noted in my above post, the influence of his two books has probably affected more people negatively than Marx And Hitler together.
Similar damage has been done by Freidan and Keynes.
EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION!

I agree. Educate yourself about the connection between these creeps. Satre was just a writer ( I think ). Whereas Kinsey practiced sexual sadism on people, including children.

According to Kinsey researcher Dr. Judith Reisman www.drjudithreisman.com
Kinsey gave Hugh Hefner the fodder to create the first main stream porn magazine.

 

[Katie1723]

The surest way to get someone to do something is say " DON’T". When I was in high school many moons ago, I wanted to read “Rabbit Run” for a book report. The English nun said NO. My mother took the book and hid it on me. After reading one of the “allowed” books, I went and found the book my mom hid and read it anyway.
We live in a country where freedom of speech is a hallmark of our existance. If a book offends you, by nature of its contents, put it down and find something else. There are lots out there!
~ Kathy ~

 

[Jaypeeto2]

MOST harmful books?

I’d saying ANYTHING by “Father” Richard McBrien, anything by Thomas Boekenkotter, anything by Joan Chittester or Sister Jose Hobday, actually anything published by Maryknoll ORBIS books, and increasingly, books published by the Saint Anthony Messenger Press (a lot of modernists giving talks, writing books, etc. in their catalog).

Love, Jaypeeto2

 

[bquinnan]

Steve Andersen:

I always get a kick out that that list

 I mean to put Kinsey, Freidan, and Keynes on the same list as Marx, Hitler and Mao!?!?!?!:eek:

 Have the compilers no sense of proportion? 

  It’s not even a question of being in a different league….they’re not even playing the same game

I probably wouldn’t put Keynes up there, misguided though I think he was, but Kinsey and Freidan’s philosophies may have contributed to as many murders as those of Marx, Hitler and Mao, via abortion.

 

[bquinnan]

It seems to me that there is a reluctance to acknowledge the harm caused by various books because of the possibility of censorship. Yet, in a truly free marketplace of ideas, harmful ideas will be resisted by various market forces.

For example, I may choose to patronize book stores and/or publishers who tend to offer books that contain ideas that seem beneficial, while avoiding those that do harm. Choosing not to shop somewhere because one doesn’t like the products offered is not, contrary to what many seem to believe, censorship. It’s an exercise of one’s own freedom.

I may pressure schools that educate my children, or that I contribute to financially, to avoid introducing harmful ideas to children who may be too young to distinguish between harmful ideas and good ones. Or, I may try to influence the schools to make children aware of these books and why they are harmful, and where the arguments contained within them fail.

I don’t think that it is a simple matter of, “If you don’t like it, don’t read it.” If the carrying out of a particular set of ideas is harmful, those ideas must be fought. Not reading a book doesn’t present harmful ideas from being harmful, if other people will be reading the book and doing the harm.