As the geeks among us know, in Robert Heinlein’s** Future History ** series, the United States becomes a religious dictatorship in the year 2012. Obviously that’s not far off, and though I doubt things would get nearly that bad that quickly, it occurs to me that, if it were to happen, we’d likely see an institution of censorship on a draconian level. Which makes me wonder: what books published since 1980 are likely to make such a list, and why?
My first nominee: Towing Jehovah by Thomas Morrow. God dies and falls bodily to Earth. While slowly dying of grief, the archangels tell the Vatican to hire a supertanker to inter the corpse in the Arctic. En route the crew of the supertanker falls prey to anomie and famine and, among other things, eat part of the corpse.
How about all of Robert Heinlein’s Future History works, Moon is a harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land and heck everything he wrote after it.
Eventually they would shutdown the internet from open use.
Judging by what I have heard some Fundies say, most of Fantasy would go away, starting with Tolkien, Lewis and Harry Potter.
The Koran is out the window first, along with other religious texts. Most fiction is in trouble: something tells me the Prophet will not like Bridget Jones’ Diary.
The Library of Congress should get ready to relocate to Hawaii Free State.
Yes, but as Christians get more and more fundamentalist, they also get more and more literalist. There will be no more of this “lion Jesus” heresy in the future. :mad:
It would be possible for this woman to be stupider, but that would involve either a prefrontal lobotomy or a sledgehammer. And I’m certain if she were in charge of an index of forbidden books–which she’d like to be – Professor Lewis would top her list.
As others have informed you, nope, Fundies are too stupid to understand Lewis’ work is very Pro-Christian. There was a tract against Tolkien and Lewis at least as far back as 1986. One of my friends who turned fundie, showed it to me. :rolleyes:
From this, I’d just love to know why the letter sequence “war” is replaces with “piano covers” and “cia” with “blip.” (As in “global piano coversming” and “offibliplly.”)
Three or four steps BEYOND totally off her nut, IMO.
A paranoid attempt to avoid keyword searches by the government? Kind of the same way spam e-mailers put a bunch of gibberish at the far bottom of the e-mail (e.g. gunther blowfish syzygy streetball zephyr coup d’etat rockstar averege kimball) to defeat keyword-based spam filters?
The religion of the Prophet, Nehemiah Scudder. It’s heavily based on Christianity, but twisted and distorted almost beyond recognition. The Bible, as we know it, was the head of the list of banned books. At least, if you were high enough up in the heirarchy to know it even existed at all.
Well, the idea behind the contributions here appears to be that, lacking a Nehemiah Scudder on the horizon, Xian fundamentalism is going to have to step up to the plate and be the state religion if this is going to come off on schedule.
