Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Dude, you are very disturbed.

I've just read their blurb on Keynes' book and found this gem: Strange that they don't mention that the last president to balance the federal budget was that "liberal" Democrat Bill Clinton, while the current record deficits are being racked up by our most Keynesian president in history, GWB (with help from a Congress dominated by his party).

Don't forget RR, who damn near spent us into bankruptcy.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I was lucky enough when growing up that one of the books we had around the house was a copy of the Book of the Dead. I remember many happy hours pouring through it and the wonderful converstaions with mom and dad and my younger brother at dinner about the fantastic things to be found in it. If I had missed that a great and wonderful part of my life would be missing and I strongly urge anyone who has not read it to do so. Why would you disagree with a child being allowed to read any book? Isn't that the best way to start a discussion on the subject?This message has been edited by jar, 07-07-2005 05:53 PM

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

You say: ...but then you say: Could you please clarify? I'm not quite sure whether you're objecting to students being allowed to read the book or being forced to read the book as a mandatory assignment. I would certainly consider the two to be completely different issues.If it's the latter, could you also please link to the specific instance you're talking about where elementary schoolchildren had to read the book? (I may or may not feel the same way in either case depending on further details.)

But the idea that there are dangerous books has been embraced by the Catholic Church, Adolf Hitler, and Soviet Russia to name three. Those three institutions perceived perhaps with some good reasons that some books were a threat to their functioning.lfen

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I'm not sure many people actually read Mein Kampf

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I'm pretty sure that the NeoCons have read it.At least, they sure sound like they've read it.

Could be a case of kindred minds thinking alike.

Das Kapital was useless for me in trying to apply the industrial revolution power to supramolecular chemistry. My guess is that Faraday was not realized for an overfeeling on Darwin. I dont know but post-Communist Marxists couldnt change the tune to have a higher faculty offer what the internet does the lower in position to invert the conditions extant and rights in disupte.

How the hell did they miss the Bible?! It's a stretch to say Kapital or the Manifesto "caused" communism or likewise for Mein Kampf and the holocaust, but it's no more of a stretch to link the Bible to the inquisition or the German or American witch hunts.Someone explain to me why Ralph Naders book was on this list? Monk? Tal? Anyone? I can't think of any reason, valid or silly, that makes sense.

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'Most temperate in the pleasures of the body, his passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable.'

Alex, the university's division into "chairs", "specialists" or "departments" was orginally 10 from degrees across the astrological sky but apparently they have failed to found a findable faculty for the difference of the Biblical and the philosophical theologian. Theology indeed it was(to speak like a little green Yooda). Entrupensurship does not substitute in during transit.

Perhaps it's because the Bible was written/compiled at a time when counting centuries was still a bit of a novelty?

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins

Haha ok I'm stupid. The question about Nader's book still stands.

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'Most temperate in the pleasures of the body, his passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable.'

I must pass on that one, it's something I know nothing about.

I read it recently. It's not as boring as its reputation suggests. Some of what is said in that book took my breath away. The hatred steams out from just about every page. That's what makes it interesting. Evil is very interesting, for some reason.