Burning all Books but Saving One Word In an alternate future, where books were banned, and I could only save one book, I would actually only choose to save one word. The Word. I would preserve The Word of God; The Bible. Although it is not filled with complete scientific or mathematical knowledge or truths, it is full of religious truths. In Fahrenheit 451, as the books become less and less present in society, so does religion. If I were to be put in a situation such as this, and all sources of knowledge was gone, I would still choose to preserve religion over all else. The moral and spiritual knowledge gained from the Bible would be more useful. In a society where education and learning doesn 't matter and isn 't valued, religion would still be valued to me; no matter what the society does or how it changes. The Bible originated from Oral Tradition, so I find it ironic that this would be the way to preserve it in such a twisted society. The memorization of every single book and every single chapter for the passing down for future generations would be a strenuous task. If I had to pick a single book in which to spend my time learning, I would pick the book of Psalms. Psalms is probably the most figurative of all the books, but I find that it has the most enriching material. Each Psalm is its own advice to Christians, I would …show more content…
In the novel, Jesus was described as just being part of the 'family. ' In a world such as this, religion, in my opinion, would be the most important thing to try to preserve for future generations. One of the most important things in life is to love others, and be able to interact with others, and the Bible is probably the best example a book can set for others. If all aspects of literature vanished, I would not allow faith and religion to go with