Librarians have shown a rare sensitivity to believers by placing sacred texts on top shelves as a sign of reverence.The move came following a request from the Muslim community that the Koran should be placed above mundane earthly things. And the goverment-funded Museums, Libraries and Archives Council agreed but added that, in the intersts of equality, all holy books should be placed on the top shelf.
It's rather wonderful that librarians – who deal with so many thousands of books – should show respect for that which we hold dear.
Guess who doesn't? Yes, Dame Thompson's gone off on one: "The jobsworth mentality that we associated with library fines is now being applied to everything multi-culti, with gruesome results.
"I think I'll pay a special visit to my local (super-PC) library this afternoon and have a look at the 'holy books'. And then maybe do a little rearranging of my own."
I'm intrigued to know when showing respect for the Holy Bible became PC.
2 comments:
When I was a teacher I was always amazed how much the students mistreated the Bibles used in class. The way that Muslims treat the Quran, washing before touching it, keeping it wrapped on a high shelf, placing it on a stand to read it all shows the respect for what they see to be divinely inspired. Other religions are taught to treat their sacred scriptures with reverence. Maybe we need to rediscover the Bible as Sacred Scripture and treat it as such.
Why not just read it? And pray on what you've read? And meditate on it? God's word is supposed to be alive and active, not in a glass case to venerate from afar.
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