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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Peter Lineham: Massey University Professor Emeritus of Religion on the National Library's plan destroying religious texts
Description: The Internal Affairs Minister's being criticised for allowing improper destruction of religious texts from the National Library.  The Government plans to shred around half a million books which include the Bible, the Qur'an, and the Torah, to save on storage costs. Massey University Professor Emeritus of Religion Peter Lineham told Heather de Plessis-Allan religious texts should be offered to the relevant communities. He says Minister Brooke van Velden suggested they can do what they want with the books because New Zealand's secular.  But Lineham says being secular doesn't mean being careless with...