Burn the Bible!

[Christa]

Fundies occasionally have bonfires where they pressure youth to burn their old “evil” books and music — solidifying their new identity in Christianity.

In that spirit, a Baptist church in North Carolina is hosting a good ol’ fashioned book burning — but this time, it’s the Bible. That is, any Bible that isn’t the OneTrueTranslation™, the 1611 KJV:

The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence.

Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible.

According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan’s music such as country, rap, rock, pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel, contemporary Christian, jazz, soul (and) oldies.

http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/10/15/burn-the-bible/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FkbgeR8LKs

[rpannier]

1. King James I was bi-sexual

And had some pro-Catholic leanings.

I wonder how the good rev feels about that

[54anickel]

2. Whoa there Nellie! WTF is left? n/t

[Warpy]

3. I hope they're cited under antipollution ordinances

I'd love to see them hit with a big, fat fine.

[lazer47]

4. Why is it? that some of these so-called Christians,

Talk more about the Devil than they do about anythings else,,What ever happened to the Beatitudes

[54anickel]

5. 14 members, according to the video posted...but growing. 3 souls saved from hell on the tote sign!

[iris27]

6. KJV-only Christians crack me up,

because not only is the KJV at least in part a translation of a translation (I think it pulls from the Vulgate which is a Latin translation of the original Greek and Hebrew), but it ADDS extra material in! So it's probably among the least accurate translations. The ending of the Lord's Prayer "for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever" is not in the original-language texts, hence why Catholics don't say it but Protestants do. The KJV is also notorious for making Mary Magdalene out to be a whore when the original-language texts say nothing about that; she was just a widow living on her own.

[Nihil]

7. Thanks - I'd wondered where that bit came from:

> The ending of the Lord's Prayer "for thine is the kingdom and the power
> and the glory forever and ever" is not in the original-language texts,
> hence why Catholics don't say it but Protestants do.

:think:

Blindingly obvious in retrospect but I hadn't connected the extra words
in the Protestant service with the version of the Bible that they used!

I started off as a Catholic but, after a gap of several years, went to
some Anglican (Church of England Protestant) services with the girl who
later became my wife. I noticed the difference in prayer but put it
down to different churches rather than differences at a lower level.

Thanks for clearing that one up! :toast: