Only tangential but when I was an undergraduate studying philosophy I had Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not A Christian in my carry-on, and the TSA saw that and had a field day.

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stickfigure 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please elaborate - what did they do? And what airport was this?

	▲	SauciestGNU 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Detroit airport, 2010. I was chosen for secondary inspection and got some snide remarks of "we've been seeing too much of this lately" in reference to the recently failed underwear bombing attempt on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

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epihelix 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can only assume you meant they had a field day celebrating how much of Russell's philosophy matched the concerns about Christianity expressed by Jefferson, Paine, etc?

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ars 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They wouldn't see it until they opened it, so clearly they didn't open it because of the book. And if they need to open your suitcase (not because of the book), they have a reason for that.

	▲	SauciestGNU 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was chosen "randomly" for secondary inspection. This was after a failed bombing plot and the TSA implied a lack of Christianity was the proximate cause of the attempted attack.