Are Christians stealing books on the occult from libraries?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...





Librarians in small town Oklahoma seem to think so.





"Books about witchcraft may disappear because self-styled censors are stealing them to keep them out of others' hands. "We are a tiny library in eastern Oklahoma and our most often stolen materials pertain to witchcraft. It is my belief that these books are taken by those who want to censor the materials, not by those who want to study them," wrote a public librarian from Wister, Okla."

Are Christians stealing books on the occult from libraries?
i'm sure they are not stealing them, that would be against the 10 commandments.


maybe culling or cleansing.
Reply:I really believe your thieves are the little witches.
Reply:its good to know that people studying witchcraft would never steal a book.
Reply:Oh man my school library has books on the occult, and I've been checking them out and reading them.





If I found out some ******* theist was destroying them, I would kick their god damed ***!
Reply:I happen to have been in a library in my home town when I saw this family of 4 ( a husband, a wife, two children one a boy the other a girl) Well, the parent's where looking out and the children where writing in the books and ripping out pages of not only occult books but books from other religions such as islam, hindu and buddhists. Before I could find someone to report them they where gone. I felt so sad for those people and their ignorance.





With everyone saying it could be the person interested in keeping a book longer. Most libraries offer patrons extentions on materials, now the story does leave out the condition the books are returned back in. I also wonder how they are able too in the first place most libraries have anti theft systems in place.
Reply:Prove it's us.
Reply:That certainly wouldn't surprise me because when I lived in the mid-west in the late '80's and early '90's there were places out there that still held book burnings.
Reply:It would be a sad commentary on our society if this were proven to be true.....
Reply:That's sad if it is true. But, who knows, maybe it is just the work of those ubiquitous Satanic cults I hear so much about.


Or just angsty kleptomaniac teens...





Ironically enough, those possibilities are a lot less troublesome than this...
Reply:I don't think it is a fair assumption.


It could be Goths making a giant wall collage.


It could be Gamers postering their rooms, like decoupage.


Here in small town Ontario the librarian knows everything about everyone. Believe me, we know everything about her as well.
Reply:Someone is so my odds would be divided between kids wanting to learn more on the occult or Christians. I know locally, it was found to be Christians trying to censor. Occult and "anti" Christians books disappeared regularly and some who were caught were self professed Christians.
Reply:Yup. Books on occult are the highest disappearing book in libraries all over the US. I live in a little town, and the library has those sensor things at the door, like the ones at Wal-Mart. Sometimes it's the Christians,. sometimes it's pagans afraid of going into an occult shop. I don't have a problem, I go to Half-Price Books. I think half of the people at the one I frequent are pagans.
Reply:I worked in a small town library in SD for over 4 years. The few books on witchcraft that they ever had were stolen, and they only had SRW books to begin with. Also any books that had anything to do with homosexuality were also stolen. The librarians thought it was people trying to censor this stuff, not to steal it just to keep it.
Reply:My library doesn't have any books on witchcraft or the occult.





I can't find a solid tome about demonology anywhere.
Reply:It's not beyond them. I had a friend working at a book sale for kids, and she said another volunteer deliberately left "The Golden Compass" in the boxes. My friend asked about it, and the lady said "They won't buy it if they don't know we have it."





So yeah they will stoop to low practices to keep people from having unapproved thoughts.
Reply:It sounds possible. It is even bizarre enough to be probable.








I like the fact that they did make this point in the article:


Another reason that books about the occult, car repair, tests or sex disappear might be that people are really studying them. "What do these subjects have in common? They all require extensive practice at home, and it takes longer than the four-week checkout period to get good at it," wrote the Benicia librarian.





Nice article. thanks.
Reply:Wow, that's freaky. You know, I went down to our library and offered them abou 50 books out of my personal Occult Library, and they refused them, saying they'd put them up for sale, but not on the bookshelves. Well, if you've been to my library, you'd know there are very few Occult books in the library. (Do a search in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and see for yourself)
Reply:That is the opinion of a public librarian in Wister OK...hardly a fact..





Her opinion is wrong...





I live in an area that seems to have a high influence of occultists, wiccans, witches, dark magicians, satanism...it is a big problem.





We are routinely warned about our pets on certain days....keep them in...





The tagging is terrible..





Stores are broken into and things stolen often has an occult connection.





Our Libraries do not let these kind of books out...you want to look at them..fine..but do it there..





Believe me..Christians are not looking at these books..it would be a huge sin..





It is a well known and accepted presumption in our area that these materials will be stolen by the 'dark side' if you give them half a chance...