Halloween Book Burning in North Carolina!

[Flyndaran]

That would be a public service.

Too late. The Suck-ronomicon has already been unleashed.

[smileyeagle1021]

Which is the reason they piss me off. I don't care what they do, but they drag down people who don't deserve to be dragged down with them.

I bet the Other Team is overjoyed at their behavior.

you mean the people like my mother who are too cowardly to stand up to the leadership of her church (United Methodist) and tell them that bigotry is not supposed to be condoned by the church? Or perhaps you speak of the good Christians who have thrown stuff out their car at my boyfriend and I? Oh, you must mean the Christian leadership that say that my kind is responsible for the destruction of the nation? Just maybe you mean the christians who have time and time again voted to remove my rights?

Sadly RK, you speak for a minority. Christianity (at least in this part of the country) has been taken over by the bigots and idiots, and if by the other side you mean those of us who Christ has betrayed, then yes, we are thrilled to see the Christ Cult destroying itself.

[lordlundar]

"Let he who is without sin burn the first book."

I don't know, kinda fits.

Sad part is, these days you'd have people rushing to be the first because "It's not my fault! It's someone else who's at fault!"

[Arcade Man D]

you mean the people like my mother who are too cowardly to stand up to the leadership of her church (United Methodist) and tell them that bigotry is not supposed to be condoned by the church? Or perhaps you speak of the good Christians who have thrown stuff out their car at my boyfriend and I? Oh, you must mean the Christian leadership that say that my kind is responsible for the destruction of the nation? Just maybe you mean the christians who have time and time again voted to remove my rights?

Sadly RK, you speak for a minority. Christianity (at least in this part of the country) has been taken over by the bigots and idiots, and if by the other side you mean those of us who Christ has betrayed, then yes, we are thrilled to see the Christ Cult destroying itself.

That's called a "Vocal Minority". The majority of Christians do follow Jesus' example, which also includes not going about shouting "LOOK AT HOW GOOD A CHRISTIAN I AM!" while doing something good. A lot of the nationally covered leadership may have gone rotten, but the leadership can be gotten rid of as soon as people wake up to the fact that these hatemongers are twisting a religion based on a man who preached tolerance and humility above all other things.

[Rapscallion]

A lot of the nationally covered leadership may have gone rotten, but the leadership can be gotten rid of as soon as people wake up to the fact that these hatemongers are twisting a religion based on a man who preached tolerance and humility above all other things.

The problem remains that people are happy to remember the negative and not remember the positive. Should the Westboro loons turn over a new leaf and be nice, they'd be forgotten within weeks. They'd also still be known as evil lunatics, since people would never be able to forget the past.

Rapscallion

[protege]

And yeah ... who else are they burning? Are they just going to go to the local bookstore and buy every single book that wasn't the King James Version of the Bible and then go to burn them?

Ah, the KJV...the book that's been used for centuries to justify all sorts of evil acts. I have a feeling that the Klan and many other religious hate groups will be glad to know that their "holy book" has a group of followers standing up for it

Speaking of Halloween, there was some local radio DJ going on about how we "need to retake the holiday as the Christian event it is." When I heard that, my eyeballs nearly fell out of my head from rolling. It's not a fucking Christian holiday, OK?

[AdminAssistant]

Ah, the King James version...the one comissioned by the most openly gay king in the history of the English monarchy.

Excuse me, I'm joking on irony.

[IDrinkaRum]

King James was not gay in the modern meaning! He was just really really really happy all the time! And he liked to keep himself surrounded by beautiful men so his wife wouldn't be jealous of all the beautiful women he could have had at any time. And ... er ... ahem ... I hope people knew that was a bunch of sarcasm ... and schtuff.

Do the people who defend the King James Version of the Bible even know that he was gay? Do they try to say he wasn't? Or do they completely ignore that important fact?

And what makes the KJV better than other versions? I've never read the KJV, I read the Catholic Version (I'm Catholic .. duh XD). But really .. how can they really differ?

[joe hx]

And what makes the KJV better than other versions? I've never read the KJV, I read the Catholic Version (I'm Catholic .. duh XD). But really .. how can they really differ?

It's "better" because it was the first legal English bible. It's "better" because the wording is pretty.

In reality, it's not that great of a translation. They didn't have the dead sea scrolls. The King James bible was based off of the two wildly available translations at the time: the older English, and illegal, Geneva Bible and the Catholic Latin bible. Both are not great translations either.

[smileyeagle1021]

That's called a "Vocal Minority". .

I can't speak about outside of Utah, but in Utah this so-called "minority" somehow continues to support legislation to keep discrimination legal with landslide margins.
Even if they aren't out on the street beating up random homosexuals, they still condone hatred.

[BookstoreEscapee]

you know, book burners are idiots. And not because they're burning books.

But because they have to purchase the book they're burning, or steal them (and then likely get arrested). Either way, stores replenish their inventory, publishers then get the message the book is popular, and print more. They're doing more to hurt their own cause than simply ignoring it would do.

Hey, if it helps my company's stock...

And they're gonna have BBQ chicken and all the fixins!
(What, no marshmallows?)

Seriously, though, a 14-member congregation? How many of them are related to the pastor?

[protege]

Seriously, though, a 14-member congregation? How many of them are related to the pastor?

In the case of WBC...most of them are related, either by blood or marriage

[gremcint]

In the case of WBC...most of them are related, either by blood or marriage

or both...

[Arcade Man D]

I can't speak about outside of Utah, but in Utah this so-called "minority" somehow continues to support legislation to keep discrimination legal with landslide margins.
Even if they aren't out on the street beating up random homosexuals, they still condone hatred.

Yeah..... Utah is a very different case.

[HYHYBT]

I have to pass this response along:

Bet they don't have enough books among them to provide the fuel for the barbecue.