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It may be oversimplifying to say that they're concerned with a power block arising from Christian churches. They could be concerned with the cultural and viral
by nfoz 9y ago
It may be oversimplifying to say that they're concerned with a power block arising from Christian churches.
They could be concerned with the cultural and viral ideas of the texts themselves. Religious texts beget mindsets, attitudes, ways of life. That could be the disruption to status-quo social order that they're worried about. It may be secondary for power-blocks to arise from people organizing around those uprising belief systems.
Anyway this might be just an administrative stepping stone; maybe just being more consistent in their long-existing sorta-soft-ban on religions, rather than deliberately taking a new step towards banning them even harder. Can anyone here advise how significant this is relative to the status quo?
- fspeech 9y agoThe NYT article itself provided good context: the Bible is available at church bookstores but no longer online. They even give an estimate of how many copies have been printed.