Spreading 'Freedom' Over There So That We Can Have Stalinism Over Here

Because 9/11 changed everything, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been purging various religious books from their libraries and have developed a GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED list of "acceptable" religious reading. The books left off the "approved" list aren't only those brown swarthy texts you'd expect these Fascists to purge:

“There are some well-chosen things in here,” Professor Larsen said. “I’m particularly glad that Dietrich Bonhoeffer is there. If I was in prison I would want to read Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” But he continued, “There’s a lot about it that’s weird.” The lists “show a bias toward evangelical popularism and Calvinism,” he said, and lacked materials from early church fathers, liberal theologians and major Protestant denominations.

The Rev. Richard P. McBrien, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame (who edited “The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism,” which did make the list), said the Catholic list had some glaring omissions, few spiritual classics and many authors he had never heard of.

With apologies to Woody Allen ...If The Founders came back came back today and saw what all the things these assholes did in their name, they'd never stop throwing up.

UPDATE--> We've tumbled waaaaaaaaaaaaay down that rabbit hole:

...banned materials at Otisville include two fundamental Jewish works - Maimonides' "Mishneh Torah Systematic Code of Jewish Law" and the "Zohar," a primary text of Kabbalah - as well as the popular "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner. Among the purged Christian works is the best-selling "The Purpose-Driven Life," by Rick Warren. Further, according to the complaint, the Muslim section of the library at Otisville has been stripped of Islamic "prayer books, prayer guides and the 'Hadith,' which is the most important source for Muslim practice and faith after the Koran."

Comments

[upyernoz]

no doubt the right will blame liberal political correctness for this one. i mean, the government probably wants to ban all the scary mooooooslim books, but are afraid to target one particular religion because of this annoying thing called the constitution. so they can either drop the banning plan altogether or ban everyone holy books. so they went with banning everything.

so that's the right's cue to scream about how liberals want to eat santa claus, or at least don't hate islam as much as we should.