[bookshare-discuss] Re: Catholic banned books and movies lists

  • From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:20:43 -0400

I'll read something I disagree with if it's (A) well-written and (B) doesn't have stupid premises. The exception to this rule is Philip Pullman. I've heard his books are well-written, and his premise is interesting and all...as long as you recognize that, despite his avowed atheism, he stole the whole bloody thing lock stock and barrel from the gnostics. So I figure I may as well go back to the source, as it were. <g> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

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I agree with you. I'm not Catholic, but I can appreciate what you're saying. I used to think that I should never ever ever read anything that would even make me consider anything outside my beliefs (just to make it clear that I'm aware, I'll go ahead and say I was naive and silly and overly prim about it), and then I found myself in high school, where I didn't have a choice. Wake-up call! Now I'll voluntarily read things I don't agree with. It has helped me as a person, to strengthen and shape my own beliefs, and as a writer, to appreciate different points of view and differente ways people process things. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francesca Marinaro" <poetprodigy7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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My issue with the Catholic church banning books is not from a religious
standpoint, but from a literary one because I'm an English teacher and a
gradduate student, and being well-read entails exposing yourself to
alternative points of view. This does not mean you have to swallow or agree 
with that point of view.
When I was in high school, we were required to read Portrait of the Artist as a young man(which I despised, but that's beside the point). Anyway, there were large portions of that book that were either anti-Catholic or promoted 
an extreme form of the religion. I went to a catholic high school, and my
english teacher's very words were "When you read this, put on your Catholic armor." By that she meant, read it, learn to appreciate it as a great work 
of literature, but by all means, do not buy into it.
That, in my opinion, is a much more sensible position, but then again,
perhaps there aren't a lot of sensible people out there. (I say that with 
tongue firmly in cheek by the way).

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Anne Lynskey [mailto:yeksnyl1953am@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:53 PM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Catholic banned books and movies lists

Yes, the most notable banned book and movie by the Catholic Church I
remember was Gone with the Wind.  For years.  Because of the last line of
the book. Then there were things like 77 Sunset Strip and Paten Place which
were also notably banned. My dad was good at keeping up with what we were 
and were not allowed to watch, church or not.  And then for every hour of
TV, we had to read a book for 3 hours.  Of course I had it easy because I
had my books on those big 33 RPM records.  All those good fairy tales.  I
loved to listen to them. My mom would make my sister and I take our baths 
on Saturday night when Perry Mason was on so she could watch in peace.  I
can still hear the famous theme song drifting up the stairs into the
bathroom. I have that as a ring on my cell phone. I made my own with the 
real theme, not the junk theme Verizon has for sale.  It brings back many
wonderful childhood memories.

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Mary Anne Lynskey

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