When a leader can convince the people that burning books is an exercise in personal freedom, he's more than half way to owning them.
Ironically, it's the states which claim to be the most defensive of freedom which are most likely to burn books. For example, there's nothing Texas likes better, after a good, wholesome execution, than to burn some books written by some dang liberal. They also consider it very important to put Jesus into high school science books but, to my knowledge, there's very little evidence that Jesus knew much about science. Many of his followers, particularly the ones in Texas, certainly don't.
But those efforts are amateurish next to what has just happened in Lebanon. A Greek Orthodox priest owned a library containing eighty thousand volumes. Someone found inside one of them a pamphlet that was reportedly insulting to Islam. For that, of course, the library has to burn and so poofed about fifty thousand volumes. (RT: Thousands of books, manuscripts torched in fire at historic Lebanese library)
Yep, there's the smell of freedom in the air. Unfortunately, the smell comes from the pages of burning books.
Ironically, it's the states which claim to be the most defensive of freedom which are most likely to burn books. For example, there's nothing Texas likes better, after a good, wholesome execution, than to burn some books written by some dang liberal. They also consider it very important to put Jesus into high school science books but, to my knowledge, there's very little evidence that Jesus knew much about science. Many of his followers, particularly the ones in Texas, certainly don't.
But those efforts are amateurish next to what has just happened in Lebanon. A Greek Orthodox priest owned a library containing eighty thousand volumes. Someone found inside one of them a pamphlet that was reportedly insulting to Islam. For that, of course, the library has to burn and so poofed about fifty thousand volumes. (RT: Thousands of books, manuscripts torched in fire at historic Lebanese library)
Yep, there's the smell of freedom in the air. Unfortunately, the smell comes from the pages of burning books.
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