North Carolina church to burn ‘Satan’s books,’ including works of Mother Teresa

[HELLRAISER]

is this book burning inspired by the Old or New Testament?

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/n-c-church-to-burn-satans-books-including-works-of-mother-theresa/

North Carolina church to burn ‘Satan’s books,’ including works of Mother Teresa

By Kathleen Miller
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 -- 11:50 am

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."

Church leaders deem Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible, as well as at least seven other versions of the Bible as "Satan's Bibles," according to the website. Attendees will also set fire to "Satan's popular books" such as the work of "heretics" including the Pope, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Rick Warren.

"I believe the King James version is God's preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God," Pastor Marc Grizzard told a local news station of his 14-member parish.

Grizzard's parish website explains that the Bible is the "final authority concerning all matters of faith and practice," for Amazing Grace Baptist Church. In the Parish doctrinal statement, Grizzard expounds that "the Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning, and all issues of interpretation and meaning shall be determined by the preacher."

The event also seeks to destroy "Satan's music" which includes every genre from country,rap and rock to "soft and easy" and "Southern Gospel" and" contemporary Christian."

David Lynch, a resident of nearby Asheville, N.C., told Raw Story "it's a little disconcerting how close this is to my home."

"They are burning so much stuff I've dubbed them the hypocritical Christian Taliban," Lynch said in a phone interview with Raw Story. "Just the scope of all the information they want to destroy is pretty disturbing."

Church leaders did not respond to Raw Story's requests for comment, but the website notes they will be providing "bar-b-que chicken, fried chicken and all the sides" at the book burning.

 

[BlueBalls]

"I believe the King James version is God's preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God," Pastor Marc Grizzard told a local news station of his 14-member parish.

:rofl2:

I love it when people say that. The historical context alone - forgetting everything else wrong with it - makes that statement completely hilarious.

Other than making me laugh, I really have no interest in this story. It's a small group of morons burning things. On halloween no less, which is peculiar. You would almost think they were doing Satans work.

 

[Legzman]

is this book burning inspired by the Old or New Testament?

Germany I believe

 

[Facial_King]

Good times - hee-haw!!!

 

[jasonk282]

is this book burning inspired by the Old or New Testament?

I have not heard of the Bible talking about book burning.

BUT there was this guy in Germany around 1940's that LOVED to burn books, wonder what happened to him?

 

[Will E Worm]

"I believe the King James version is God's preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God,"

He's correct and this sounds good to me. I want to go. :hatsoff:


I'm accepting cash or money orders to fund my trip.

 

[feller469]

for the record, i live at the other end of the state. The mountain air is nice (when not filled with smoke) but I prefer the smell of the ocean

 

[skechers]

The human race is amazingly stupid.

 

[CunningStunts]

The human race is amazingly stupid.

I'm losing my faith in humanity... one idiot at a time.

 

[PretoDragao]

I have not heard of the Bible talking about book burning.

BUT there was this guy in Germany around 1940's that LOVED to burn books, wonder what happened to him?

I heard from a friend, who heard from his roomate, who heard from his neighbor, who heard from his niece, who her from her boyfriend, who heard from his uncle, who heard from his doctor, who heard from his intern......(several minutes later).... who heard from a priest and a rabbi walking into a bar that that guy comitted suicide. Poor bastard...

 

[tiger1977]

So who's going with me??? Maybe we can make a weekend out of it and kill all the hippies there too!!!

 

[D-rock]

Wow, I didn't know those King James version bible translators were so great as to be blessed with perfect clarity. :rofl: You also have to love how the preacher is the one that gets to interpret it instead of people actually doing it themselves of their own free will. What's ironic is that there have been many times where the preponderance of evidence shows the interpretation of what's in the Bible has been wrong. That would pretty much disprove that the King James version is perfect just like all the others were not perfect. A lot of that is with the gender some of words and people that are now in dispute, but also there is a number of words where the definition of what they actually are isn't completely clear.

Then again they are far from the only religious organization to claim to be magically infallible at interpretation when it suits them (cough)CatholicChurch(cough)

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Wait; people still burn books cause they think they are the words of the devil?

Only in the American South, folks.

 

[Mrs Jolly]

Oh for cring out loud. Once you start believing in talking snakes, voices in your head and sky gods with personal plans, a jump to a book burning is hardly a surprise. (Or am I wrong?) Nobody turns a hair to the fact that everyday a sizeable portion of the world mutilates the genitals of newborns because a bizzarre book told them to. Yet in the time it took to type this somebody did such a thing.

If we are going to sit round being surprised every time the religious do something irrational and dumb we aren't going to get much done.

 

[Shindekudasai]

Germany I believe

I have not heard of the Bible talking about book burning.
BUT there was this guy in Germany around 1940's that LOVED to burn books, wonder what happened to him?

Well, the Dritte Reich (Third Reich), yeah... hurts everytime someone equates that with Germany... and the book burning stuff was more like 1930s.
What happened to the guy...oh, nothing serious, just poisoned, shot in the head and burnt beyond recognition in the backyard. Just the everyday mass murderer suicide.
Besides he wasn't really into religion. So I seriously doubt he has anything to do with a religiously motivated book burning. Still leaves a foul taste... burning books because of some rather irrational viewpoint...

Then again they are far from the only religious organization to claim to be magically infallible at interpretation when it suits them (cough)CatholicChurch(cough)

Americans really hate the Catholic Church, dont they? It's more of a tradition than rationalized behaviour. At least the Catholic Church doesn't argue Darwin and the evolution (cough)George W. Bush(cough). Who lives in glass houses... I'm just saying...

Oh for cring out loud. Once you start believing in talking snakes, voices in your head and sky gods with personal plans, a jump to a book burning is hardly a surprise. (Or am I wrong?) Nobody turns a hair to the fact that everyday a sizeable portion of the world mutilates the genitals of newborns because a bizzarre book told them to.

Oh my, political correctness sure is sitting in a corner somewhere now, crying her eyes out. Am I reading this wrong or did someone just post something antisemitic....and even associated Judaism with (national socialist) book burnings... :eek:

 

[STDiva]

Only in the American South, folks.

:thumbsup:

 

[Supafly]

"I believe the King James version is God's preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God,"

He's correct and this sounds good to me. I want to go. :hatsoff:


I'm accepting cash or money orders to fund my trip.

If you would really go and stay there and cease plaguing yourself with the whores and sinners from internet, I would gladly give, brother.

Always remember the magic number: Fahrenheit 451 :angels:

 

[STDiva]

If you would really go and stay there and cease plaguing yourself with the whores and sinners from internet, I would gladly give, brother.

Always remember the magic number: Fahrenheit 451 :angels:

Great book.

 

[DreamSparrow]

"I believe the King James version is God's preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God,"

He's correct and this sounds good to me. I want to go. :hatsoff:


I'm accepting cash or money orders to fund my trip.

Is that before or after you'll be done with your most recent re-run through Joey Silvera's Big Ass She-Male Road Trip 12?

http://board.freeones.com/showpost.php?p=2903904&postcount=4 :rofl:

I can't work out if you're for real or just stirring it up! I could understand it if you seemed like some form of liberal Christian or completely undevout. But how can you manage to hold such fundamentalist views and still justify your presence on this board? I just don't get it.

 

[Supafly]

He must be having something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

We have discussed this specific state og multiple minds in psychology.

It would really explain a LOT about his ways.