Topic: Yee haw!!! One of the local churches at my location is gonna have a book burnin'!!!
MIB
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It's going to take place a little while from now. There are gonna be burning things like Harry Potter books and so forth becaused things like Harry Potter are EVIL!!!! THEY ARE THE WORK OF SATAN AND HIS MINIONS!!!!! I'll give you more info after the 11 o'clock news airs, telling me all about it.
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I'm afraid not, Tim. For churches to burn books, they're practicing their right to protest again Satan by burning the works of his minions. Burning churches, on the other hand, is just plain arson.
But, damn. Seriously, MIB. There's gonna be a book-burning near you? That's so 1930s. And scary. I'm having flashbacks to Farenheit 451.
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Can we book-lovers burn effigies of churches in front of a church? Little stuffed churches are no substitute for a wood-frame building, but hey, you take what you can get, right?
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"Book no good, must set flame on it to free our soul from the minions of evils"
Geez, get real!
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I don't think burning effigies of churches in front of the real churches would be appropriate, either. The church officials could call the FBI and then the mess turns into a hate crime investigation.
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Well, burning the Bible would depend on where you did it at. In front of a Christian church, they'd probably still call the FBI and the hate crime investigation continues. Burning the Bible in your own backyard wouldn't get you into any trouble at all. Well, except for with the Christian God but if you're burning the Bible, you probably don't believe in him anyway.
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MIB
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*sigh* How typical. The local 11 o'clock news, despite their promises, hardly covered it at all. As it turns out, they burned Harry Potter books, Pokemon cards, and martial arts movies. They did a quick interview of a woman who apparently took her husband's Rage Against the Machine CD and burned it along with everything else. I'm not clear on weather or not the woman's husband knew that she took it. There was also some stuff about burning these things because they are evil, and that burning them would clear away thier sins, and renew thier faith. Yep. You gotta love the bible-built south! YEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
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Burning Pokémon stuff is okay, but not for the reasons these people have.
Someone needs to smack that lady that burned the Rage CD. Smack her a lot.
While burning bibles seems like a good idea at first, there remains the fact that you're still burning a book because you don't agree w/ the ideas in it. Which is what these people are doing. I'd much rather burn fake bibles. Get the point across symbolically w/o actually being a hypocrite.
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While watching TBN today, I learned that some books need to be burned because the Devil puts hidden messages in them that cause cancer.
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