(January 12, 2012 at 10:25 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well, let's be fair. These guys are burning a barrel of books. The book burnings engaged in by religious authorities have been systematic, comprehensive, long lasting, and carried out (mostly) during a time when it was actually difficult to replace them. A stocking clerk put those particular books back on the shelf before these guys even started the fire.Exactly. These people are just burning a few copies of books that they own. It's not like the church book burnings which destroyed all the copies on Earth of certain books. But for every bible you burn, there are a million more out there, so bibles are not an endangered species.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
