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"glorified Satan, suicide and cannibalism, and also encouraged children to be disobedient."
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Hum, open to some (mis)interpretation IMO. Were the children being encouraged to be disobedient about the glorification of Satan, suicide, and cannibalism or what? Possibly the children were being encouraged to be disobedient about the glorification of God to the exclusion of critical thinking and common sense, the inordinate extension of life without the consideration of the quality of that life, and the failure to recognize the inevitable result of blind obedience to "be fruitful and multiply"?
Harry, the banning of books is a slippery slippery slope. I can not support the banning of any book for any reason, ever. Ideas are not dangerous, the actions that may arise from those ideas can be. It is no accident that the rise of the Third Reich was accompanied by the burning of books, nothing threatens insanity more than the free exchange of ideas. Banning Mien Kamph is self-defeating, an open and frank appraisal of the book and it's ideas in Germany would be far more useful IMO. Don't hide it, instead take it apart, show it's fallacies, and destroy it's power.