Re: Mass Homocide In Amish Country

"Ivan Marsh" <annoyed@you.now> wrote in message
newsan.2006.10.06.15.35.31.121640@you.now...
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:52:44 -0700, Icnh wrote:
>
>> CyberDroog wrote:
>>> On 4 Oct 2006 09:04:17 -0700, "jill" <ojj9691@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Did you hear about the woman who wants to take Harry Potter out of
>>> >the school library at her kids elementary school? She says it
>>> >promotes witch craft which is evil. People are freaked out over
>>> >this and there is bound to be a backlash. People are scared.
>>>
>>> Yes, I heard about this recently. Again. I can't recall how many times
>>> people have tried this around the country, or rather countries since it
>>> has happened in the U.K., and probably other counties, also.
>>>
>>> When are these ninnies going to learn that witchcraft works about as
>>> well as prayer? That is, not at all. I'm tired of people who teach
>>> their children so poorly that they worry about a novel corrupting the
>>> kids.
>>>
>>> To her credit, J.K. Rowling said she feels honored to be considered
>>> among the likes of Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, etc.
>>
>> Apparently the idiots who want to ban the books don't realize
>> that by trying to make the books forbidden reading, they are making it
>> forbidden fruit, all the more tempting and exciting for curious kids...
>> who doesn't want to see what the fuss is all about?
>
> It also gives the impression that they think witchcraft is real... which
> is kinda' frightening.
>
> Though I did know a guy whose entire church locked themselves in their
> church and prayed all night during Halloween because it's a night of
> evil... apparently they don't know the origins of Halloween.

ignorance breeds such lovely ideas and traditions, doesn't it