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For two years in the 1950s, churches were banned by the pre-democracy KMT regime from using Chinese Bibles written with Latin letters instead of Chinese characters. The ban was lifted with an encouragement to use Chinese characters. A 1973 Taiwanese translation of the New Testament was the product of cooperation between Protestants and ...
The others largely echoed Silver’s message, that if other books are banned for alleged sexually explicit or age-inappropriate content, then the Bible should be treated equally.
Banned Books Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. According to the Marshall University Library, a banned book in the United States is one that has been "removed from a library, classroom, etc." [19] In many situations, parents or concerned parties will ban or propose a ban on a children's book based on the book's contents. [20]
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), [1] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the United States was unconstitutional.
“The district cannot ban only some ‘sexually obscene’ books while allowing others,” such as the Bible. (In its news release, the foundation purposely did not capitalize the word Bible).
In his letter, Walters called the Bible “one of the most historically significant books and a cornerstone of Western civilization, along with the Ten Commandments. They will be referenced as an ...
In the 1720s, the kabbalistic works of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato were banned by religious leaders. In the 1690s, the book Pri Chadash was banned in Egypt for arguing on earlier authorities. [16] In the modern era, when government censorship of Jewish books is uncommon, books are mainly self-censored, or banned by Orthodox Jewish religious ...
The Bible as a book about history shows both the good and the bad. It does not cover up wrongdoing in any way. It is to be left up to the student to decide what is good and what is bad.