Well, that just about wraps it up for God.

Date: 2011-09-05 01:08 pm (UTC)
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I suppose I could see H2G2 remaining on a banned list, had it once been put on, but I agree that I can't think of anything specifically anti-Catholic in it, or even that much that singles religion out as particularly objectionable (and there's a favourable reference to Jesus in the first chapter). There's the stuff about how Earth is created, of course, but I can think of a lot of things which (if I believed in banning books) I'd consider more objectionable. And if you were going to ban a Discworld novel, it would be Small Gods, which is an attack on a highly centralised and bureaucratised religion gone bad, with obvious references to the Inquisition. (Actually I think anyone who wants to be ordained should have to read Small Gods, as Vorbis makes a very good Awful Warning about how not to be a priest). I can't think of anything in Mort that anyone could object to (well, apart from the proliferation of gods, but then you'd have to ban the whole lot).

I've met kids who read Adams, but it's not a Thing that would strike terror into the heart of authority.
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