Rou

It’s an old story. Few weeks ago, I meant to write up my rant on it. But I get easily distracted by shiny objects.

So, down in Georgia, a lady has a problem with the book selection at her school’s library. You see, they have the Harry Potter series. And like any good religious nutter, she knows that Harry Potter is a gateway to Satanism. She admits she never read the books before filing her complaint because “she was busy.” But it gets better. This part isn’t needed for my rant, but it’s too funny to leave out:

I think it would be hypocritical for me to read all the books, honestly. I don’t agree with what’s in them.

The irony abounds.

Setting that aside, let me quote her objection, Harry Potter promotes

evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, spells and teaching children all of this.

Fine. That’s bullshit, and most people know it. Many teachers even use the series as a way to foster reading comprehension because of how well liked the books are. But I respect her right to hold that dumbass ideal. I will, for one time only, forgive her idiocy in challenging the books right to be in the library.

However, it’s the rest of her thoughts that really put a bug in my bonnet as it were.

It’s her idea for a replacement: “C.S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia”

Now, you might raise an eyebrow here if you compare the themes from that series to the objections listed on her form. I mean, come on now. Anyone who has read Narnia has seen all of those same themes.

Now, I’ll end with the fact that it’s not my intention to paint all Christian with the whacko brush. She represents a narrow portion of idiots that are a subclass of the more respectable religious ideology. Honestly, I should make this paragraph into a sig file for most of my rants.