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Remember the promises of Pastor Marc Grizzard, of Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, NC? He was going to hold a BBQ and book burning of non-King James versions of The Good Book, including the Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible — all deemed as “Satan's Bibles” by the church.
Right Wing Watch reports that the best laid plans by these reality-challenged fundies…FAIL. In fact, RWW has nominated this for Worst.Book.Burning.Ever. Here's the rip-roaring backup plan (keyboard protection on, please).
[W]hen the big day came around, a combination of rain, protesters, and a state law against burning paper all conspired against them.
Amazing Grace Church had this to say about people who noted that God must intervened to stop the insanity.
We wanted to say that the Book Burning was a great success[.] We wanted to thank all the Bible doubters who prayed for rain with us. All the protestors and media got wet; we were inside where it was nice and dry[.] We are not glad people got wet, we are glad that His Word was honored. Some have written praising God that he intervened and stopped the Book Burning because of the rain, protestors, and state laws about burning paper. Nothing was stopped. Our goal was to destroy garbage as noted below, and we did just that. We didn't care how it was destroyed; only that it was destroyed. These same people must have never heard about “Paper, Rock, & Scissors.” Scissors cut paper, and paper tears real easy. We destroyed everything as planned. Praise God! God answered every prayer that everyone prayed, but they don't like the answer.
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Amazing Grizzard Baptist ChurchYou learn something every day. I didn’t realize that clerical garb included denim coveralls. Or that the Bible they prefer was one written by the biggest fairy of the Reformation (King James I). Why not use a really original bible, say, the Tyndale bible, or the Gutenberg, or, for that matter the original manuscript? (Whoops, my pastor says she had to learn Greek and Hebrew at seminary, and this guy probably doesn’t even speak the King’s English).
Of course, burning Bibles is a bit over-the-shark, isn’t it? I admit I find “The Message” to be a bit much, but this is a whole new level of batsh*t crazy literary criticism. Especially as the conservatives are re-writing the KJV to suit themselves anyway.
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Burn that too?
Burning Bibles?Well that just sounds…..(let me borrow one of their favorite words)
SATANIC!!!!!
Since when does “God” stop insanity?As Woody Allen once observed, if there is a God, the best that can be said is that He’s an underachiever. What “stops insanity,” or at the very least slows it down, is countering it with sanity.
glad they had a good time.i hope they recycle.
but where did they get their material? it all had to have been originally payed for by someone (win for the publisher or artist) or they stole it (how very christian).
Recycling is apparently all they did!There certainly wasn’t any actual burning of anything.
Also, it appears that all they were able to recycle was one tall kitchen size bag of objectionable material. Seems to me that even the most fundamentalist of christian families would have more trash, as defined by the whacked-out preacher, than that. For heavens sake, I get more junk mail than that in the course of a week!
I suspect many of them were holding out. Probably kept the pornos up on the shelf.
tragic……really really tragicI don’t video tape everytime I fill a waste basket, I just didn’t think there was an audience for this…go know?
With success like that…….who needs failure? There seem to be about four of them there. No doubt everyone else within 100 miles was out celebrating Halloween.
SanityHe’s an underachiever. What “stops insanity” or at the very least slows it down, is countering it with sanity
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since the Gabardine SwineThis was the episode in which Jesus cured a madman by casting his demons into a herd of pigs, who then jumped into the sea of Galilee.
I’m not sure who the swine and who the madmen are in this particular incident, however.
holy guacamoleThat’s why it’s hard to argue with these fundamental religious folk.
Rains on a gay parade: god smites us
Rains on a christian festival: refreshing baptism.
It’s amazing how they can always interpret what jeezy does in their favor.
I encourage more infighting amongst the christians… very entertaining!
He definitely doesn’t speak Queens’ English.Pun oh-so-definitely intended.
That’s “Gadarene,” not “Gabardine”
Book burning failI cracked up when they pulled out the Ozzy Osbourne CD.
Yeah, I know that (cackle)Good play on words, though. This preacher is wearing denim, however, so it’s hard to find a suitably vulgar turn of phrase for him.
He probably also confuses “paraclete” with “parakeet.”
Hey, I have a pair o’ cleats on my shoes.How righteous does that make me?
I had a salome on rye todayHeh.
I think we better stopbefore we make each other sick.