That’s called stealing. And that book they claim to have read says that’s a no no.
Also your library will just buy more copies. Which means your taxes will go up to pay for the missing books.
Also your library will just buy more copies. Which means your taxes will go up to pay for the missing books.
Lolno. Libraries are getting funds cut. They will not buy a new copy, it will become unavailable, then those that would go to a library to borrow it no longer can, so they find it online, and the right can say “see? Nobody goes to libraries anyways”.
Our libraries send an invoice to the people who have unpaid dues.
And they can’t loan anything before the dues have been paid.
Might even go to collections if you’re enough of an ass
I wonder what would happen if a athiest group started removing religious books from that same library and publicizing it? We know these chumps wont be able to see any similarity between the two acts.
Can be just leave the books alone?
This isn’t 451°F
These are clinically insane people living in a fantasy world. So, no. They would screach and resort to violence as religious people always do.
This a church who is urging it’s members to break a commandment. Something that if you break it you go hell.
If their god was teal he lable this church a work of the devil.
If their god was teal it would clash with the drapes. J/k you make.a valid point I just needed a goof.
Breaking a commandment doesn’t send you to hell, it’s just a ding on your record which you can wipe clean infinitely by asking for forgiveness.
Sinning is free real estate.
Laws for thee, but not for me. Didnt you know?
Religion is true to the fool, false to the wise man, and useful to the politician.
There are a LOT of good churches out there, run by good people. Not all churches are good though, and the ones that are bad… tend to be really bad.
And see, here’s the thing. I’m an athiest, but I think churches COULD be a good thing. It’s an organization that teaches people to be good people. Sure, fine, they believe there’s an all knowing invisible man in the sky that knows everything since the dawn of time. And I’ll ignore the fact that supposedly everything that happens is his plan, but also we have free will…that he planned. I’ll ignore that not making sense, because simple minded as they may be, they’re just trying to be good people. Religion helps them not struggle with the hard questions in life, and just be a human. A good human.
Now for the part where it all comes crumbling down for me.
I have never once met an overly religious person who wasn’t also a massive hypocrite. So now, it goes from being a person just trying to BE good, into being a person just trying to APPEAR to be a good person while hiding all the evil shit they do.
Now, I don’t believe heaven exists. I don’t believe hell exists. I believe earth exists. I believe through the acts of chaos theory that billions of years ago a chain reaction happened in this solar system. I don’t know what led to it happening. I don’t know why it doesn’t happen in other solar systems more often. But I do believe it happened here. And then over the coarse of billions of years, and juuuuuuust the right atmospheric conditions, life exists. Life adapts. Life dies. New life emerges. And I believe that may have also happened outside of our solar system. Not humans. Some other life form. Maybe it’s a planet full of space cows. Maybe something else. Nobody knows. And I may be wrong. Maybe we are alone.
The point is, I don’t believe there is a “good place” to go when I die that rewards my behavior in life, like an all seeing Santa Claus. Which means, when I do good things, when I do morally right things, it’s because I’M the one who determined them to be the right thing to do. I decided that it needs to be done. Not because I’ll get rewarded later, but because it’s the right thing to do.
Now, if I decide to do bad things, I also don’t believe I’ll be held in some firey eternity. I don’t believe I’ll be punished post death for anything I’l done. I don’t believe Hitler went to hell. Not because he doesn’t deserve it (if it were real, he absolutely does). I just don’t think anybody gets praised or punished or exists at all post death.
But that’s not how these people see it. From their perspective, they know they’re doing wrong. Their god knows they’re doing wrong. Their church knows they’re doing wrong too! So wouldn’t that imply this all goes towards their sins list?
But then I get told that sinners can just repent for all their sins, and be accepted into heaven.
Soooooooo…literally your entire life, all your beliefs, all your good deeds, all your bad deeds, all the time in church, all the time praying, it was all one MASSIVE waste of time. Me being an athiest, could repent for all my sins, never having believed in god my whole life, and I’d be let in.
So really, them taking these books doesn’t mean a damn thing to them, until they get the same treatment done to them. Then suddenly we’re the sinners. We’re going to hell.
See? Hypocrites.
I’m gonna respond to a couple points.
I have never once met an overly religious person who wasn’t also a massive hypocrite
I have. Not many. I can think of one. There may be others. However, that’s enough for me to know it does happen.
From their perspective, they know they’re doing wrong. Their god knows they’re doing wrong. Their church knows they’re doing wrong too! So wouldn’t that imply this all goes towards their sins list?
Absolutely! The bible warns against following false prophets. That’s what these church leaders are.
But then I get told that sinners can just repent for all their sins, and be accepted into heaven.
Yeah, but depending on the church, you have to actually repent. As I understand it, Catholics can confess their sins to a priest and be absolved. However, most other Christian religions consider it a matter between you and God, so you can’t just pretend to repent. It’s has to be real. You don’t get to trick God.
One way it was described to me is like this: to be forgiven for your sins, you have to welcome Jesus into your heart. However, if you have welcomed Jesus into your heart, you wouldn’t sin. So, a sinner who has truly repented and embraced Jesus is forgiven and won’t sin again.
I think the vast majority of people who are going to church don’t believe it any more than you do. They’re in it for the social interaction or for the standing it gives them in their community, and it’s all just bullshit. However, I have met real true believers.
The best Christians I’ve known weren’t overly religious people. They were just good people who did good things.
In my experience people who actually try to live by Jesus’s teachings don’t broadcast it every chance they get.
Roman Catholics get to talk to the father in confession and are issued a pennance. In my experience ( I’m since agnostic ) I was issued dumb things like say 100 hail Marys my son. It’s all a joke really. We were expected to confess EVERY week so we would use convenient things like “father I had Inpure thoughts about miss Tucker” even though you didn’t. Most of us didn’t do the pennance. We did however make friends with the altar boys who had access to the wine… Yeah we used real wine. I got a little more than tipsy on the blood of Christ a few times.
Library: these books are so popular, better order more
The library should just publish a list of cardholders that haven’t returned their books
John doe: borrowed “Raising LGBTQ Allies: A Parent’s Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground” 15 weeks ago
So either John is a thief or he‘s REALLY into the subject.
I will hand my credit card number over to the charity that gives 5 new copies of a book to any library that has one stolen.
how long until they have a pot-luck / get rid of your un-read books bonfire
If you rely on religion for your morality, you can be convinced that anything is moral.
We could have gotten there. To that Future. But, no. Its superstition, fleas, and a darker world. Thanks for nothing, jerks.
As ways to block people from getting it out of the library, I prefer this to other methods. Remember, libraries are usually funded based on circulation numbers - so to the members of this church, I say please dive on the public library and borrow a lot of books and media, and make them have it get marked as delinquent and get written off so they can buy more stuff.
So, they’re doing a great thing to the library!
