Imagine walking into your local library, planning to read a book on Buddhism or Christianity or any other religion.
But instead of finding such important and popular titles, you discover that the religion section had been decimated -- stripped of any book that did not appear on a small government-approved list.
That's exactly what's happening right now to inmates in federal prisons under a new Bush administration policy. As The New York Times put it, they "have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries."
Prisoners are allowed to own up to 5 books on the very limited approved list of books (and a list rife with misspellings), if they can raise the money to pay for them.
I've just sent a message to the Federal Bureau of Prisons protesting this absurd policy of banning and destroying religious books. Will you join me?
Just click here: http://go.sojo.net/campaign/prisonlibraries?rk=kdsdJSp1p0BpW
Buddhism is the successor of the tribal Hindu faith. LaoZi is the greatest prophet of the Dao. Siddhartha Gautama is Saint Ioasaph in the Orthodox & Catholic Christian Churches. Jesus Christ can, in truth, be called a Buddha. He is the Eternal Dao, who is also One with the Father & Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity. Apostolic Christianity is the successor of not only the tribal Jewish religion but also the 3 in 1 San Jiao He Yi faith of Buddhism, Daoism & Confucianism combined.
2 comments:
EVIL!
I'll be signing that petition right after I post this comment. What a sad commentary on our "great project in Democracy." If anyone needs spiritual guidance it is the prisoner.
Post a Comment