It’s rather amusing to me which books public school systems want to ban when I think back to my high school days at a Catholic high school ( from 1971-1975, just so you know what time period I’m talking about). We read books like The Scarlett Letter ( about adultery obviously ), 1984 ( about a society in which technology is God, so to speak), To Kill A Mockingbird (on the banned list, one of my favorite books and movies), Catch-22 ( a book with a lot of stealing during wartime, with plenty of prostitution thrown in for good measure) and a few others which escape me at present. Seems the more established the religion is, the less likely they are to want to ban books and other potentially “sinful” writings. The Catholic Church got over most of that after the Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Inquisition (who would have expected that?)generally, and now it’s some of those Protestant sects and their followers as well as those good folks who follow the Koran/Qu’ran, or however you want to spell it (as long as you don’t make fun of it) who are into book banning.
It’s rather amusing to me which books public school systems want to ban when I think back to my high school days at a Catholic high school ( from 1971-1975, just so you know what time period I’m talking about). We read books like The Scarlett Letter ( about adultery obviously ), 1984 ( about a society in which technology is God, so to speak), To Kill A Mockingbird (on the banned list, one of my favorite books and movies), Catch-22 ( a book with a lot of stealing during wartime, with plenty of prostitution thrown in for good measure) and a few others which escape me at present. Seems the more established the religion is, the less likely they are to want to ban books and other potentially “sinful” writings. The Catholic Church got over most of that after the Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Inquisition (who would have expected that?)generally, and now it’s some of those Protestant sects and their followers as well as those good folks who follow the Koran/Qu’ran, or however you want to spell it (as long as you don’t make fun of it) who are into book banning.