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Originally Posted by Ohio
Obviously I would not ban science, medicine, engineering, history, etc.
For starters, I would use the criteria in the Bible. Ephesus burned the books of those who practiced magic.
Do you feel the believers at Ephesus were wrong for doing this? Do you feel that Paul was wrong for permitting this, or that Luke was wrong for recording this?
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I believe that anyone has the right to burn any book they wish. If you purchased the book, by all means, it is yours to burn as you please. I have a cousin who would read paperback novels while going up the chair lift at our ski resort. He would tear out each page as he read it. Over the course of a day of skiing he would finish a book and it would become progressively smaller to carry around.
But he never banned books, merely destroyed them. The case in Ephesus was not about book banning.
So lets make sure we are talking about the same thing. Lets use a real example of book banning, like the case of Copernicus that I mentioned, or the Salem witch trials, or any other example that you feel would be best.