BOOKS:
EVIL; FALSE TEACHING; READING: DANGERS OF

History will show that bad books have ruined not only individuals but whole nations as well. What the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau did to France is too well-known to need further mention here. Again, it would not be difficult to establish a cause and effect relationship between the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the bloody career of Adolph Hitler. Certainly the doctrines of Nietzsche appeared again in the mouthings of Adolf Hitler and soon became the official party line for the Nazi propagandists. And it is hardly conceivable that Russian Communism could have come into being apart from the writings of Karl Marx.…

Just what part evil literature has played in the present moral breakdown throughout the world will never be known till men are called forth to answer to a holy God for their unholy deeds, but it must be very great indeed. For thousands of young people the first doubt about God and the Bible came with the reading of some evil book. We must respect the power of ideas. And printed ideas are as powerful as spoken ones; they may have a longer fuse but their explosive power is just as great.

2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 2:8–9

Of God and Men, 88, 89.