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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Pretty much any fiction written decades or centuries ago will have attitudes that are different from today with regard to women's rights, racism, treatment of gay people, servants, slavery, etc. Does this affect whether you will read a book written 100 or more years ago?
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No. Unless this is just one more thing piled on to a book that is already poorly written. Now that I'm a Catholic convert, I've re-read some books that take for granted that "papists" are the anti-Christ. Before converting from Protestantism I hardly noticed these references – now they stand out. But it doesn't really bother me. I just figure that was their worldview at the time.