Burning Books For Halloween, Now That’s Scary
Via Raw Story:
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 local news video is priceless.
Now, granted, this church, only has 14 members, but there’s something eerily familiar about the thought process. When I read this story, with it’s seemingly never-ending list of who (and what) aren’t “real” christians I immediately thought of the Republican Party – but, perhaps that’s just a symptom of my obsession. Although, I have been saying for quite a while that the GOP strikes me more as a “religious” organization rather than a political party. Maybe my leap was triggered by all the proposed bible burning – as in that bible isn’t a “real” bible.
Whatever the case, this is just spooky. At least they’ll be having “bar-b-que chicken, fried chicken and all the sides” at the burning, so bring the kids.
Another interesting note: I can’t get on the churches website. It states that it’s in “System Reserve.”
Tags: Religion, Republcians
I wonder how the KJV of the Bible became the one that is most holy?
Christian fratricide is the second best thing for the country after Republican fratricide.
I am surprised that the KJV is the bible of choice. NIV seems to be the choice of fundamentalists these days.
Everything after The First Council of Nicaea in 325AD is bullshit if you ask me.
But then again, you’re Amish.
Cultural Amish.
The KJV is actually one of the least correctly translated verisions from the oldest manuscripts available. Turns out our knowlege of ancient languages has grown in the last 400 years. Not to mention, we have now found older versions of the books than were available in the early 1600s. But that’s based on archeology, which is WAY too close to science for these folks.
When does this pastor hunting for witches?
These people are also burning work by Billy Graham and by Rick Warren. And they are burning CDs? Talk working your way out of the gene pool — I bet not one of them wears a respirator while this mountain of plastic and Naugahyde gets torched.
I like M.McKain’s point — to the extent that each of these versions still maintains basic moral lessons that these christianists never seem all that interested in. Like the 10 Commandments and the Love thy neighbor thing. They just want to be on record destroying stuff or people.
I like how they hate TV, but the minister is fine about being interviewed on TV.
15 minutes of fame, baby!
Actually, anything after the Tanakh is make-believe. 🙂
These are the sort of folks who argue that they only use the KJV because it is what God gave St. Paul — bound in leather with gold leaf on the edges and the words of Christ in red.
They are, dare I suggest, historically as well as theologically ignorant.
Oh, and why the KJV? Because it says right on the title page — it is the Authorized Version. 🙂
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