Ban this children's movie...

[Vic C.]

The man has an obvious distaste for Christianity:

http://www.thirdway.org.uk/past/showpage.asp?page=3949

 

[cyberjosh]

Banning books or movies is wrong based on our God given freedoms which our country was founded upon.

Though politically I would not advocate banning, morally I must disagree. Ever read the passage in Acts where the Ephesians after they were saved burned their books of magic and sorcery (Acts 19:19)? They not only banned them, they destroyed them. God did order in the OT that no practice or knowledge of magic be in their midst. Just a thought.

 

[handy]

I know the passage, but I don't think its quite the same thing. There is a difference between telling everyone in a community that they cannot read a certain book and people within a community coming to a common agreement that they will not practice magic anymore, and joining together for a bonfire. For all the Ephesians who converted and burned their books of magic, there were probably plenty who didn't convert and continued practicing magic.

I guess I'm hung up on the semantics of the word "banned". To me a banned book is something on an official list, deliberately made unavailable even to the people who may want to read it. I don't think any organization, from the church to the Boston City government has the right to deliberately keep books or any other material from those who choose to read them.

And, I'll admit to a certain ...shall I say hypocrisy...in the matter. Because I do feel that some materials should be illegal and actively banned, no matter if some want to have them or not. Child pornography comes to mind as do snuff films. And this includes animated or virtual porn in which no human actually gets hurt. Yep, I'm all for banning that.

 

[cyberjosh]

And, I'll admit to a certain ...shall I say hypocrisy...in the matter. Because I do feel that some materials should be illegal and actively banned, no matter if some want to have them or not. Child pornography comes to mind as do snuff films. And this includes animated or virtual porn in which no human actually gets hurt. Yep, I'm all for banning that.

That's the type of stuff I had in mind.

And a culture shock or not, during the Mellineal Kingdom under Jesus justice will be swift and no-nonsense as in the OT. One of the OT prophets says that in those days Parents will pierce their own Children through with a sword if they practice false prophecy (or one of those sins - maybe it was idolatry) because their zeal for the Lord will be great (in Moses' day it was done by stoning). Either way, ultimately under God's reign no wicked books will be allowed. But in our time on earth we do have free will (at least in this country) to read what we want, which also means even if there are evil books out there that we also have the choice not to read them, and abstain from such evil. Just explaning why I would object on moral grounds for some books' existance. And pornography is definately at the top of the list.