No, this church, The Amazing Grace Baptist Church, is not burning Catcher In The Rye or Heather Has Two Mommies, the usual smut. They're burning Bibles! Bibles?
Uhh, yeah. The dumb Bibles that aren't the King James ones. Does the King one have better shit in it? Who can say? Have any of you ever read any of the Bibles?
The Scriptural bases for what we are doing each year is found in 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."
Gah, does not compute.
Also:
We are not burning Bibles written in other languages that are based on the TR. We are not burning the Wycliffe, Tyndale, Geneva or other translations that are based on the TR. We will be serving Bar-b-Que Chicken, fried chicken, and all the sides.
If you are in North Carolina on Halloween, please go to this book burning and take some pixxx for us.
(Via Wonkette, who wins the Internet today by commenting: "How does a human being become this insane? Imagine how hard you would have to work, mentally, for your whole life, training yourself to be as insane as fucking possible about everything, every object you see, every interaction you have, to the point where you would plan or attend this church’s Halloween book burning non-ironically, agreeing with each aspect of this itinerary on earnest grounds, actually believing that this event would result in some sort of pure, positive good, and then telling people in public, on the publicly available Internet, about this event. Try to imagine for yourself a hypothetical psychological path that would lead you to this sort of existence. “Clinical psychosis” won’t even get you halfway.")
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I was lost with the music category "Soft and Easy" hmm never heard of that is that a spongy version of Easy Listening?
Seriously I am the expert here, this Baptist group is very similar in belief to the Phelps crowd out of Kansas. Most of their "clergy" is undereducated most never finished High School, many come out of such a literalistic interpretation of the Bible that Appalachian churches use snakes in the service because there is a Bible verse that Mention's THIS!
BTW All versions of the Bible that are not the King James Version are forbidden.
They are "works of the Devil"
Because of course God HIMSELF dictated the Bible to King James PERSONALLY!
"A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste"
Posted by: DeWayne in SD | October 15, 2009 at 09:36 AM
The Amazing Grace Baptist Church would be "shattered in the faith" to learn that even more conservative Fundy Baptist churches would be of the belief this Church Is Satanic.
Why?
Because they use the Internet!
Many of them believe Computers and the Web are Satanic and expressly forbid use of computer technology!
A better question as we bomb the Taliban once again is why ignorant backward people be they Christian,Muslim,Jewish or Tibetan Monks gravitate to MOUNTAIN regions?
Oh right to be "closer to God"
Because he lives in the clouds, I wonder is he still FUCKING Dione?
Posted by: DeWayne in SD | October 15, 2009 at 09:45 AM
This group reminds me of Hitler, Stalin, Mao. They all loved to burn books! An look what it got them! NJMJr!
Posted by: JANORM | October 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM