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#1 2009-10-16 5:07 pm
Fahrenheit 3:11
CANTON, N.C. — A North Carolina pastor says his church plans to burn Bibles and books by Christian authors on Halloween to light a fire under true believers.
Pastor Marc Grizzard told Asheville TV station WLOS that the King James version of the Bible is the only one his small western North Carolina church follows. He says all other versions, such as the Living Bible, are "satanic" and "perversions" of God's word.
On Halloween night, Grizzard and the 14 members of the Amazing Grace Baptist Church also will burn music and books by Christian authors, such as Billy Graham and Rick Warren.
Telephone calls to the Amazing Grace Baptist Church and Grizzard's home were not immediately returned Wednesday.
“[We will be burning] books by a lot of different authors who we consider heretics, such as Billy Graham, Rick Warren… the list goes on and on,” Pastor Grizzard told reporters.
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The book-burning is hoped to be a social event, with a barbecue laid on for attendees. It is not clear whether the meat will be grilled over the heat of burning Gospels.
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::facepalm::
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#2 2009-10-16 5:11 pm
- Tallgeese
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Wow... The UK's Telegraph is running a story on what a 14 member church in South Carolina does.
Does Britain not have any news to report any more?
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#3 2009-10-16 5:14 pm
- JakeTheTall
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Christians burning Bibles is funny to me.
Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew.
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#4 2009-10-16 5:16 pm
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Even after all of my posts stating that the bible is just a book, I'm staunchly against the idea of burning any book, regardless of it's content. It's censorship, not to mention the smoke will make you smell like Hitler.
There's what you love to do, and then there's what you get paid to do. Those two things are often different.
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#5 2009-10-16 5:40 pm
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Jokotai wrote:
.....the smoke will make you smell like Hitler.
That's some quality humor right there. 
"and it's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
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#6 2009-10-16 5:45 pm
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Grilling meat over burning books?
Yeah, that'll solve the problem right there. I hope they like toxins.
Oh wait, it could be construed that the toxins emerged from The Perverted Word of God rather than the materials that they're printed on that they shouldn't be burning for any purpose anyway.
A quandary!
Burnings happen all the time around here for "rededicating or new Christians", but they're always of the secular nature. Harry Potter. Jay and Silent Bob movies. Rick Astley CDs. Never Bibles.
Because none of us are as cruel as all of us.
The voice of none is stronger than the voice of one.
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#7 2009-10-16 5:58 pm
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Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
Burnings happen all the time around here for "rededicating or new Christians", but they're always of the secular nature. Twilight. Jay and Silent Bob movies. Rick Astley CDs. Never Bibles.
Fixed
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#8 2009-10-16 6:04 pm
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Re: Fahrenheit 3:11
the grizzard 14 eh?
that should sway the masses to start toeing the line.
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#9 2009-10-16 6:30 pm
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Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
Rick Astley CDs.
So there really is a little good in everything!
Do your part to combat global warming.
Eat a cow.
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#10 2009-10-16 6:42 pm
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Have Rick Warren and Billy Graham really written their own bibles?
That actually strikes me as absurdly blasphemous.
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#11 2009-10-16 7:15 pm
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ShnickyShnack wrote:
Have Rick Warren and Billy Graham really written their own bibles?
That actually strikes me as absurdly blasphemous.
The Billy Graham Bible is a NKJV Bible with Billy Graham's notes in it.
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#12 2009-10-17 1:33 am
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c_norris1 wrote:
Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
Burnings happen all the time around here for "rededicating or new Christians", but they're always of the secular nature. Twilight. Jay and Silent Bob movies. Rick Astley CDs. Never Bibles.
Fixed
You'll pull a copy of twilight from a teen girl to throw into a bonfire when you pull it from her cold dead fingers.
Because none of us are as cruel as all of us.
The voice of none is stronger than the voice of one.
Lulz is a corruption of LOL, which means "laugh out loud".
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#13 2009-10-17 11:31 am
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Tallgeese wrote:
ShnickyShnack wrote:
Have Rick Warren and Billy Graham really written their own bibles?
That actually strikes me as absurdly blasphemous.The Billy Graham Bible is a NKJV Bible with Billy Graham's notes in it.
Oh. That doesn't sound so bad.
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#14 2009-10-17 11:39 am
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Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
c_norris1 wrote:
Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
Burnings happen all the time around here for "rededicating or new Christians", but they're always of the secular nature. Twilight. Jay and Silent Bob movies. Rick Astley CDs. Never Bibles.
Fixed
You'll pull a copy of twilight from a teen girl to throw into a bonfire when you pull it from her cold dead fingers.
Ah, remember the good old days - when vampires were the bad guys...
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#15 2009-10-17 12:43 pm
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radarman wrote:
Anonymous Delivers! wrote:
c_norris1 wrote:
FixedYou'll pull a copy of twilight from a teen girl to throw into a bonfire when you pull it from her cold dead fingers.
Ah, remember the good old days - when vampires were the bad guys...
Except for Angel. Angel has a soul...
Some subjects actually enjoy pain, and withhold information they might otherwise have divulged in order to be punished.
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#16 2009-10-17 1:16 pm
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Fahrenheit 3.11 is rather cold...
Some subjects actually enjoy pain, and withhold information they might otherwise have divulged in order to be punished.
Central Intelligence Agency. (1983). Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual
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#17 2009-10-17 1:44 pm
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YOU PRAY WRONG!!
Grandfatherly advice: You can drink 'em pretty, but you can't drink 'em smart.
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#18 2009-10-17 4:56 pm
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jerwin wrote:
Fahrenheit 3.11 is rather cold...
You've got to trust your instinct and let go of regret
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