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Book burning in Tennessee

As long as they bought them first and weren't spewing foul smoke and chemicals at their neighbors...whatever.
 
And it's not like this is some random whacko. Greg Locke is a fairly popular apologist. Sure, still a whacko, but not random.
 
Ya, pretty sure I've seen this dude referenced as often as Kenneth Copeland and Paula White when it comes to whackjob preachers. This was plainly a stunt to generate outrage.
 
Harry Potter and the Twilite series. Isn't this nut a decade or so behind the literary times? Alongside of being a couple centuries behind the intellectual times.

One lone counterprotestor. That is concerning in it's own right.
 
Thermal said:
Harry Potter and the Twilite series. Isn't this nut a decade or so behind the literary times? Alongside of being a couple centuries behind the intellectual times.

One lone counterprotestor. That is concerning in it's own right.
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It's Tennesee;what do you expect?
 
If anything, they should be taken to task for not burning any media from the Twilight series of movies.
 
For me, private citizens burning a few copies of a book in symbolic protest is no different than private citizens burning bras. Or private citizens burning other books. Or private citizens burning political figures in effigy. Even if they confiscated the books from a local bookstore or school library, I've certainly countenanced far more extreme acts of civil disobedience.

Now, if the government were banning publication and possession , and destroying extant copies in public displays of Correct Thought and Good Citizenship, that would worry me.

And don't come crying to me about how these people burning these books are a sign of government things to come, if they get their way. That's true of everyone, every faction. The urge to pogroms is non partisan. The fantasy of bringing the power of the state down on your political enemies is widely entertained on the left, including by progressives here.
 
theprestige said:
For me, private citizens burning a few copies of a book in symbolic protest is no different than private citizens burning bras. Or private citizens burning other books. Or private citizens burning political figures in effigy. Even if they confiscated the books from a local bookstore or school library, I've certainly countenanced far more extreme acts of civil disobedience.

Now, if the government were banning publication and possession , and destroying extant copies in public displays of Correct Thought and Good Citizenship, that would worry me.

And don't come crying to me about how these people burning these books are a sign of government things to come, if they get their way. That's true of everyone, every faction. The urge to pogroms is non partisan. The fantasy of bringing the power of the state down on your political enemies is widely entertained on the left, including by progressives here.
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Burning books as a protest is a right protected as 'free speech' but removing books from libraries in an effort to control what others may read purely for political or religious agendas is a completely different kettle of fish. Equating it to burning bras or political effigies is a false equivalence.

The myth of the bra burning feminist lives on:

100 Women: The truth behind the 'bra-burning' feminists

Did Feminists Burn Their Bras in Protest at the 1968 Miss America Pageant?

Bra Burning as a Feminist Ritual, Debunked
 
Donal said:
As long as they bought them first and weren't spewing foul smoke and chemicals at their neighbors...whatever.
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A famous and well-honored tradition. Foxe's Book of Martyrs has a surprisingly funny passage in which the Bishop of London attempted to suppress Tyndale's Bible translation by buying them all up to burn. It of course devolved quite to Tydale's profit, and paid for the printing of a second edition. Alas, among the disapproving Catholics was Sir Thomas More, no dummy, so they did not repeat their mistake. They kidnapped Tyndale instead, and burned him at the stake. Thus insuring, as we can all see, that there would never be an edition of the Bible in English.
 
Private citizens burning a few copies of a book in symbolic protest. Sounds so...reasonable. Only meantime, pastor Greg Locke who organized this, says:
Prior to the burning, Locke said in a sermon that he was fighting the “Free Mason devils” and that “I ain’t gonna be suiciding myself no time soon. I ain’t messing with witches no more, I ain’t messing with witchcraft…I ain’t messing with demons… I’ll call all of them out in the name of Jesus Christ,” said Locke, as crowds of attendees cheered and applauded in response. Guardian
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He ain’t gonna be suiciding hisself no time soon, y'all. Dadgummit, where's emptyg. ;)

He looks like he's about ready to start talking in tongues!
 

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newyorkguy said:
Private citizens burning a few copies of a book in symbolic protest. Sounds so...reasonable. Only meantime, pastor Greg Locke who organized this, says:


He ain’t gonna be suiciding hisself no time soon, y'all. Dadgummit, where's emptyg. ;)

He looks like he's about ready to start talking in tongues!
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He's a liar! I'm his barber and he's done got hisself a 666 tattoo on his scalp! He's a agent of the DEBIL, the DEBIL I tells ya! Dunk his arse in the river and see if he floats!

ETA: Good timing: Billy Graham Jr.'s commercial telling me I need to give my life over to JEEEEEBUS just played on TV.
 
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There is balance in the world. In the scrap yard I work in we have it.

In the pile of old books to recycle are a bunch of bibles, an entire AA library and two sets of encyclopedias older than me. And a ton of government stuff like a pictorial of the 1970 census and other related things. I saved the big book of maps of the sewers in Mex City, 1973 version, and two AA books about how they get you in. The daily reflection and AA prayer books are still buried in a mountain of scrap paper.

Scrappers don't read nor resell religious materials. It's all weight to fill the wallet.
 
I see this site's "Mainstream" conservatives are rushing to defend this guy.
Just like "respetcable" conservatives in Germany in the 1930's rushed to defend the Nazis.
Only to find out the Nazis, when in power, were quick to suppress the respectable conservative and sen a few of their leader to the concentration camps.
I guess some people here are under the delusion the can use these nutjobs for political purposed and then somehow control them.
Funny, that is what the conseravatives in Germany thought.
 
newyorkguy said:
Private citizens burning a few copies of a book in symbolic protest. Sounds so...reasonable. Only meantime, pastor Greg Locke who organized this, says:


He ain’t gonna be suiciding hisself no time soon, y'all. Dadgummit, where's emptyg. ;)

He looks like he's about ready to start talking in tongues!
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SO Masons are Satanic....I am betting he does not like Catholics much either......

To the mainstream conservatives here: You really want to be taking the side of these people?
 
And I hate him even more for making me defend the Twilight books..which I think are pure junk.
 
Prior to the burning, Locke said in a sermon that he was fighting the “Free Mason devils” and that “I ain’t gonna be suiciding myself no time soon. I ain’t messing with witches no more, I ain’t messing with witchcraft…I ain’t messing with demons… I’ll call all of them out in the name of Jesus Christ,” said Locke, as crowds of attendees cheered and applauded in response. Guardian
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Say those words at a place that it is not a church and you'd be considered a lunatic, especially if you remove the JC part.
 
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dudalb said:
SO Masons are Satanic....I am betting he does not like Catholics much either......

To the mainstream conservatives here: You really want to be taking the side of these people?
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My 32nd degree Mason FIL would have been shocked to find out he was a devil. Although my MIL did say he could be a little devil at times.
 
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