In a country that seems increasingly to be governed by the religiously insane, a high-school in the ultra-red state of Missouri has banned Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five' because "it's principles are contrary to that of the bible". Not surprisingly the zealots doing the banning don't see the blindingly obvious cononundrum that they are creating by banning one piece of fiction because it doesn't agree with another piece of fiction. Of course the bigger non-surprise is that none of these invisible sky-daddy worshippers see the similarity between what they are doing and what the Taliban did when they destroyed centuries-old statues of Buddha for basically the same fucking reason. Must be because those folks were brown-skinned and worshipped the wrong invisible sky-daddy...
Oy vey...
Have a great week y'all!
And they say the Middle East is a hotbed of religious extremism...
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