# Why are Christian Bookstores Allowed to Ban Books? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-christian-bookstores-allowed-to-ban-books/937271 "2021-03-05T15:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 122
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-christian-bookstores-allowed-to-ban-books/937271/122 "2021-03-05T20:59:21Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > You folks are foolishly naive if you think you can control the monstrous ideology that is exploiting wokeness. This is a good one, too. It’s ridiculously facile, and handily supports your deeply-held belief system. Much the same could have been said of the Union in 1861. Look at the extent to which the Northern States went to dominate the Confederacy with _their_ “wokeness.” [Some on the loony left drive me … maybe half as crazy as those on the loony right, but they tend to cause less objective harm than the batshit RW people. They just make it harder to buy incandescent light bulbs (except that was Bush 43), and two gallon soft drinks, and shit like that] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-christian-bookstores-allowed-to-ban-books/937271)._