If you thought irony was dead
today’s little bit of weirdness comes courtesy of Texas, where some parents of a fifteen year-old girl are extremely unhappy about a book she has to read for a class in school. Apparently it has some terrible references to bad things happening with people doing bad things, smoking and drinking, and even taking God’s name in vain. Yes, the title of this book is of course Fahrenheit 451. Now her father hasn’t actually read the book, but he apparently knows filth when he sees it.
For the complete story, I direct you to read this. In order to be truly perfect, the family would have to be suggesting burning the book rather than just banning it. But we don’t live in the most perfect of all possible worlds, I suppose, and so we are forced to make do with what we have.
The girl is now reading a different book which deals with similar themes. I guess her book has more kittens in it, though?
Oh, people of earth… sometimes you make me want to laugh and cry at the SAME TIME.
The green color scheme and the cheesy picture of the father and his daughter posing proudly with the book made me think I was looking at the Onion! *shiver*
Hell no. It’s the real deal. At least as far as I’ve been able to tell.
I really liked the comment the first person had posted, though. The Bible is indeed rife with terrible tales and countless mention of blasphemy, violence, murder, rape and idolatry. Is that really safe reading for our children?
“How the Hell can we talk about Hell without saying Hell?” —B Simpson.
don’t newspapers have proofreaders anymore? sigh…
“We went them to go after God”
there was another, but i lost it…
You know, I am offended by so many things these days I really feel that we should ban the damn world.
Why learn about different viewpoints? Screw that, go hide your dead in the sand and pretend it doesn’t exist!
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