Church to Host Book Burning

[FreakinDJ]

Church to Host Book Burning

A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James versions of the Bible, popular books by many religious authors and even country music. The website for the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C., says there are "scriptural bases" for the book burning. The site quotes Acts 19:18-20: "And many that believed, came and confessed and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed."
http://planetpreterist.com/news-5660.html

[Mojambo]

1. Fucking assholes. n/t

[Stuart G]

20. Agreed nt

[busybl]

2. in the 50s they burned 45s

the devils music you know.

[Rage for Order]

3. Cool. I'll bring the mashmallows

:eyes:

[Renew Deal]

9. Acutally, they are going to BBQ

I'll kick in an old C++ for dummies book. :9

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Idiots

[madeline_con]

5. ".. and even country music." I could get behind this movement. n/t

[SoxFan]

6. They're burning Bibles?

Maybe someone can clue me in...what's their gripe with versions other than the KJV? Is there something in particular that's wrong with the NIV, New American, etc?

[Greg K]

8. If the KJV was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for them.

;)

[SoxFan]

38. Glad we straightened that out!

[Journeyman]

7. Let 'em do as they want -- they're not burning my books or impacting any libraries . . .

and they expose themselves as the whackjobs they are by burning their own books.

It's a two-fer for the Amazing Gracers: They get to lead by example and be a cautionary tale for all, just by playing out their destructive fantasies.

And with only 14 parishioners, I can't imagine they'll have all that many books or records on hand.

[aquart]

14. Dear me, now WHY do they have such evil books?

Will they include their downloaded internet porn?

[Incitatus]

10. There are "scriptural bases" for a lot of things.

Are they going to stone sinners to death next?

[SIMPLYB1980]

11. Only 14 people go to that church.

It's a publicity stunt. Local radio even the conservitive ones were smack talking them today. News 14 did a segment that made them look like fools. The are burning Billy Grahms books that's not going over well with Christians round these parts. Please pound this story, but please don't blame NC as a whole.

[pleah]

12. OMFG! n/t

[saltpoint]

13. Were these folks to phone me up I would suggest they use the fire to

have a wiennie roast and toast marshmallows and s'mores and build their community of old and young over a roaring fire, as opposed to using it to destroy books.

So far though, our phone hasn't rung.

[alittlelark]

15. They are trying to use the flames to purify their unholy thoughts.

There are many who openly do the same.

They should just be honest.

[BrklynLiberal]

16. Arethey going to time travel back to the Dark Ages so they will finally find happiness?

[Maraya1969]

17. Wait a minute. That Bible verse sounds like they burned silver "books"

and pulled it all together to make a bunch of silver. Just like:

"CASH FOR GOLD"

It was definitely a work of collecting "money".

..."and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed."

[Kievan Rus]

18. Even the KJV will go up in smoke this year, due to the Neocon Bible

[cliffordu]

19. NAZI by any other name.....

[Golden Raisin]

27. With a heaping dash of Taliban

thrown in.

[Leftist Agitator]

21. When they find out that God considers burning His sacred texts an unforgivable sin...

Boy will their faces be red!

No, I'm just kidding.

Why aren't there any people on our side of the political spectrum who bomb the somewhat innocent like these assholes?

Oh, wait, I forgot. They're crazy and we (for the most part) aren't.

Still, when these people die, I will metaphorically piss on their graves. Good impending riddance, fuckheads!

[slay]

22. It's times like this where I just have to take such deep pride in my state...

:sarcasm:

[ChoppinBroccoli]

23. The Joke's On Them

And ALL burners of media in whatever form. Why? Because they have to BUY the offending material in order to have it to burn. Do you think the people who wrote those books CARE what people do with it after they've paid their money? I certainly wouldn't. I'd happily take my royalty check to the bank whistling a happy tune. And even better than that, don't they realize that by calling attention to all these "blasphemous" works, it not only creates more "buzz" and curiosity for that item (thereby leading to an increase in sales just from "looky-loos" who want to find out what all the hubbub is about), it also makes folks like me, who LIVE to piss these people off, want to go out and buy the "offensive" items in question.

I know that when I finish the novel I'm currently writing, I'm going to openly LOBBY the religious whack-jobs to have massive book-burnings of it. They'll probably oblige me too, because it contains spiritual themes not sanctioned by the whack-job religious right.

[zbdent]

30. on a semi-related note ...

at a second hand store, on half-price Monday, I picked up a book for half price. And by "half price", I mean half price on the normal "second hand hardcover" price the store set ... I paid 50 cents for it ... (and I suspect that was overcharged for the content ...)

Rudy Giuliani's "Leadership".

First edition.

autographed ... and I know it's signed and not a "printed" signature, because the ink from the marker bled through to the other side of the page.

One day, I might put it on e-bay ... but aren't these things more valuable after the person has passed from this mortal coil?

(related: Also found "A Book" by Desi Arnez, a personalized autographed copy of a Rocky Bleier book, an autographed copy of a quotes book by Art Linkletter, and a regional interest, a "political corruption" book, personal copy of local Cleveland reporter, now deceased, Neville "Nev" Chandler)

[KinMd]

24. If Jesus returned

these people would label him a terrorist, socialist, Marxist. I mean he's from Palestine, doesn't speak English, says to love your neighbor, turn the other cheek, pardoned a prostitute! The list just goes on. This isn't what this country was built on

[BREMPRO]

25. the REAL American Taliban. like the middle ages in some parts of the country.n/t

[Vickers]

26. I believe Acts 19:32 applies here:

"The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there."

That's from the NIV, btw.

O8)O8)O8)O8)O8)

[mikeSchmuckabee]

28. Bet they're reading "Mein Kampf" by the light of the fire.

[MajorChode]

29. It will probably look something like this...

[SIMPLYB1980]

35. I doubt they can afford that many books.

I have been looking to see if there are any planned protests of the book burning, but I haven't found any yet. I think it would be funny as hell to go protest dressed as Satan.

[MajorChode]

43. Perhaps they will just clean out the local library

[WillyT]

31. Farenheit 451...

:wtf:

[saltpoint]

32. I'm like, you know, guessing that Jesus himself used a non-King James

version of the Bible.

He seemed to be quite familiar with the books of what are now called "the Old Testament," and I don't think King James was like, you know, born yet.

[HughBeaumont]

33. "Hitler started this way. First he burned books. Then he burned people."

Sign at a 1980s book burning.

[mmonk]

34. Will they burn the ancient manuscripts that preceded King James

of England? Or did Jesus grow up in Leeds or Birmingham and not Bethlehem or Nazareth? Hitler would be proud of these hillbillies.

[seemunkee]

36. Come on, just burn a witch

You know they want to.

[Tesha]

39. "She turned me into a *NEWT*!" (NT)

[ChoppinBroccoli]

40. Me Too!!!

I got better. Sort of.

[Tesha]

44. Thanks for completing my thought!

If I hadn't been posting from my mobile phone, I'd have included
a picture something like that!

Tesha

[Kingofalldems]

37. America's hicks are on the march

[la_chupa]

41. clearly its a publicity stunt

silly people don't they know they could just pretend to send a kid up in a balloon

[fascisthunter]

42. staying true to form

the Americans right wing Taliban