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[tree_and_leaf]

While I'd quite like to believe this (who doesn't love a story about kids fighting for the right to read what they want?) I find it hard to believe that a Roman Catholic school* would ban some of these. I mean, admittedly you might censor Paradise Lost, because its Christology is certainly very dubious, but getting upset about works on human evolution is more of a fundamentalist Protestant thing, and I can't imagine why any school that didn't have a Stalinist axe to grind would want to ban Animal Farm.

But.... Dante? I'm not buying it without considerably more substantiation.



* The OP doesn't specify what kind of 'strict private school' they attend, but states that "most of the books contained information that opposed Catholicism".

Comments

[sir_guinglain]

I also think that someone literate would be able to spell 'Catholicism'.

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, in theory, though given the way even educated adults type on Facebook, I wouldn't take that for granted!

[cjbanning]

Well, I have to admit the main reason I tend to call myself an Anglican is because "Episcopalian" is too hard to spell. (I never end up spelling it wrong, exactly, but it never looks quite right to my eye when I write it down, so I just go with "Anglican" instead, which doesn't have so many vowels.)

[tree_and_leaf]

I've never had a problem with 'Episcopalian', but I have to think very hard about some words. "Bureaucracy" always takes me an embarrassing number of tries. And, come to think of it, I always struggle to remember how many 'r's there are in 'embarrassing'...

[liadnan]

I always have problems with "necessary"

[tree_and_leaf]

'Accommodation' is another good one.

[tigerfort]

It is necessary for all vicars to wear one collar and two socks, although on occasion they may instead use two collars and one sock.

[tree_and_leaf]

Heh! That's brilliant...

[kerravonsen]

I have problems with BOTH "necessary" AND "bureaucracy"!