Resolutions For A Better World In The New Year
As we face the start of a new year, it's traditional to make resolutions. But instead of making resolutions about our own individual behaviors, here are some resolutions I'd like to see come true in the world around us.
I'd like to see a resolution to the internecine fighting in Iraq. It's not a civil war, it's not an insurgency, it's a struggle for power between two bands of thugs who are using hatred between the Shiites and the Sunnis to fuel their battle. The prize is Iraq and its oil billions.
Here's one resolution that I wish everyone in America would make: Stop trying to ban books.
Do you realize that people have tried to prevent school children from reading "Harry Potter" about 115 times since the year 2000? And there are plenty of other calls to ban other books, as well. If someone doesn't like a book, they demand that the school system get rid of it.
Now, I make my living from writing books, so I may be prejudiced. But it seems to me that the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. Moreover, the Constitution also forbids the government to support any religious group.
The complaints against "Harry Potter" are on religious grounds. In Georgia's Gwinnett County just two weeks ago, a mother demanded that the school board prohibit "Harry Potter" in the classroom. Why? Because the book "promotes witchcraft" as an alternative to Christianity. Full Story
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I'd like to see a resolution to the internecine fighting in Iraq. It's not a civil war, it's not an insurgency, it's a struggle for power between two bands of thugs who are using hatred between the Shiites and the Sunnis to fuel their battle. The prize is Iraq and its oil billions.
Here's one resolution that I wish everyone in America would make: Stop trying to ban books.
Do you realize that people have tried to prevent school children from reading "Harry Potter" about 115 times since the year 2000? And there are plenty of other calls to ban other books, as well. If someone doesn't like a book, they demand that the school system get rid of it.
Now, I make my living from writing books, so I may be prejudiced. But it seems to me that the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. Moreover, the Constitution also forbids the government to support any religious group.
The complaints against "Harry Potter" are on religious grounds. In Georgia's Gwinnett County just two weeks ago, a mother demanded that the school board prohibit "Harry Potter" in the classroom. Why? Because the book "promotes witchcraft" as an alternative to Christianity. Full Story
Related: religion, wicca, pagan, spells
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