if these morons had stayed in school past third grade they might have learned that religious texts have caused more grief on this earth than any other.

"I am not a doom and gloom preacher, I am a truth seeker. But we are at the threshold of dark days," Crawford told the congregation.

"Uh, come to think of it. Yeah, I'm pretty much a doom and gloom guy," he should have said afterwards.

International House of Prayer pastor James Crawford

IHOP?

Of course, they teach the Bible in plenty of public schools, and I don't know that I've ever heard of a public school ever teaching Harry Potter, but let's not let that stand in the way of a good time.

This is just an excuse for them to look at porn.

What a bunch of idiots.

I think they should make this a daily thing. Go out and buy all the Harry Potter books and skin mags they can get their hands on, then burn them. That'll show those publishers.

If I was there I would tell them that they are contributing to global warming.

southernbelladonna: What a bunch of idiots.

Baptists. They get like that.

From TFA: "This is powerful. God looks down and sees humble hearts. That is the reality of what we're doing."

Yes, because it is rather humble to think that, in all of the vastness of the universe, God made humans special, and not only that but, out of all the billions of Humans, he actually cares about what your little group is doing.

I dunno. I think God might be a little busy these days goading his son into appearing on toast, dogs asses, and tress at certain times of day.

/religious humility is such a contradiction in terms

Well, how tolerant of them. Can I burn books you like too?

I wonder how much of the porno got squirreled away into people's pockets before it could be burned.

Since they're all porno-burning fundies, it's reasonable to assume they're secret pervs. So I'm going to guess a lot of porno didn't quite make it to the burn barrel.

Wasn't this an episode of The Waltons?

That is one reason pastors from several denominations and races ripped pages from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

In their defense, the books were pretty big and could use a few less pages.

You know who else liked to burn books?



/someone had to go there.

Because burning books makes everything better... LNOLBI.

You know who else...



NaziInternational House of Prayer punks,
Nazi International House of Prayer punks,
Nazi International House of Prayer punks

FARK OFF!!

Well, I agree with the part about having standards and part of having standards is not reading Rowling's craptacular series, but past that I just can't get behind this.

About 30 people gathered for a regional revival Friday night that included a book burning as a statement to reach out to local residents.

You know, an ice cream social or a block party would have worked just fine. Thanks anyway.


/Note to self: Stay the fark out of Shreveport

Quite the turnout.

A good old fashioned bookburning just can't put the butts in the seats like it used to.

Great idea, because if there's anything Louisiana needs less of, it's books.

le mew: Great idea, because if there's anything Louisiana needs less of, it's books.

I'm telling ya, it's the Baptists. They tend to get all burny during the summer.

"As I tore the pages, I felt a generational curse of immorality and perversion breaking off my family," Adriane Banks said. "I felt it."

What. The. fark.

Cewley: if these morons had stayed in school past third grade they might have learned that religious texts have caused more grief on this earth than any other.

FAIL. Religion can't hold a candle to these two. (Though Islam has the potential to do so.)



Here is a thread where the worst books are listed (new window)

Crosshair: Cewley: if these morons had stayed in school past third grade they might have learned that religious texts have caused more grief on this earth than any other.

FAIL. Religion can't hold a candle to these two. (Though Islam has the potential to do so.)



Here is a thread where the worst books are listed (new window)

You know Hitler was a Christian, right?

/ignoring the rest of the sheer stupidity of your comment

GAT_00: You know Hitler was a Christian, right?

You know that Stalin was an Atheist, right? What's your point?

What is stupid about my post? Over the course of history over 100 million people have died because of communism. I don't have the number for Nazism, but it's probably over 10 million. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is responsible for about 60 million deaths IIRC.

Christians have used the bible to justify some nasty stuff in the past, but the numbers are insignificant when compared to modern atrocities. Christians have at least matured for the most part and don't advocate death to those who don't agree with them

GAT_00: You know Hitler was a Christian, right?

/ignoring the rest of the sheer stupidity of your comment

Crosshair: GAT_00: You know Hitler was a Christian, right?

You know that Stalin was an Atheist, right? What's your point?

What is stupid about my post? Over the course of history over 100 million people have died because of communism. I don't have the number for Nazism, but it's probably over 10 million. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is responsible for about 60 million deaths IIRC.

Christians have used the bible to justify some nasty stuff in the past, but the numbers are insignificant when compared to modern atrocities. Christians have at least matured for the most part and don't advocate death to those who don't agree with them

So raping and pillaging in the name of God is quite OK, because nearly 2000 years after a guy named Jesus was born, another guy managed to kill more people.

Oh, and Christians are still calling for the death of people en masse. Or have you not noticed all the hate toward Islam recently?

GAT_00: You know Hitler was a Christian, right?

Actually, he considered himself a pagan. And his 'inner circle' considered themselves neo-pagans. Himmler had a bug up his ass about it. Even to the point of performing marrage ceremonies in accordance with invented rituals using various and sundry pagan symbols.

Which isn't to say that Hitler wasn't above lying to most of the country about being protestant back when he figured he needed to get people to vote for him. What's amazing is that even to this day people still believe his campaign speeches about him being a good church goer.

i'm sure there's a parable in there somewhere about human failablity but i'm too tired/lazy to dig it out.

Weaver95: Which isn't to say that Hitler wasn't above lying to most of the country about being protestant back when he figured he needed to get people to vote for him. What's amazing is that even to this day people still believe his campaign speeches about him being a good church goer.

True enough, but many of his willing supporters were those strong Christians who thought they were doing God's work. To say that the Nazis weren't Christians is a horrible retelling of history to "forget." Hell, the Pope was a strong Nazi supporter.

anyone notice that in the pic it looks like the dudes throwing up the siege hill (sp?)

Donald_McRonald: International House of Prayer pastor James Crawford

IHOP?

The first time I scanned the article I did a double take.

FTFA (slightly altered)
"It is allowed for Harry Potter to be taught in our schools, but not the Bible," International House of Prayer Pancakes pastor James Crawford said during the Shreveport Regional Unity of Faith Revival.

Personally, I think my version would earn more ad revenue.

Hey, an albino! Behind you! GET HER!!!!1!!!

TFA: "It is allowed for Harry Potter to be taught in our schools, but not the Bible,"

These people are right. They should be exposed to different works of fiction.



What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?

It tells me, that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!

Weaver95: southernbelladonna: What a bunch of idiots.

Baptists. They get like that.

In high school, I took a summer job at a Baptist retreat center, and this one group came through and had everyone bring "bad" music to burn the last night. Every time someone showed what they brought to destroy, I said, "Oh, that's an AMAZING album," regardless of what it was. There were a couple of good ones in there, but most of it was just whatever was popular at the time. At the end, one of the adults in the group told me they thought it was inappropriate of me to do that. I told them I didn't care because some of it was legitimately good music, and beyond that, some of the kids had bought it with money they'd made at jobs, and it was just stupid that these adults made it a waste by destroying it. Honestly, none of the kids would've done it if not made to feel it was necessary to do so to be a good person.

But I never got to see a book burning. Damn.

TheCharmerUnderMe: A good old fashioned bookburning just can't put the butts in the seats like it used to.

Get ready. If things get really bad in this country, we're going to see an increase in these types of "revivals".

FTFA: "It is allowed for Harry Potter to be taught in our schools, but not the Bible,"

You can teach the Bible as literature, just like you can teach Harry Potter as literature.

You can't teach either as fact.

And to be frank, the Bible is pretty crappy literature.

"As I tore the pages, I felt a generational curse of immorality and perversion breaking off my family," Adriane Banks said. "I felt it."

Good for you.

mamoru

From TFA: "This is powerful. God looks down and sees humble hearts. That is the reality of what we're doing."

Yes, because it is rather humble to think that, in all of the vastness of the universe, God made humans special, and not only that but, out of all the billions of Humans, he actually cares about what your little group is doing.

I dunno. I think God might be a little busy these days goading his son into appearing on toast, dogs asses, and tress at certain times of day.

/religious humility is such a contradiction in terms

Actually, the Bible backs them up on that thing about God making humans special in the beginning of Genesis, when it says that people were made in God's own image.

/had to go to Sunday School for a few years way back when
//always wondered how the dogs' Bible would go
///"And lo, he said unto them, 'Bad dogs! No no!' and cast them from the backyard of paradise, and he placed an angel with a flaming rolled-up newspaper to guard the gate."

Crosshair: You know that Stalin was an Atheist, right? What's your point?

Personality cults are not atheistic. Stalin was a God in his own mind.

You can see the same social phenomenon now in North Korea. Try going to Pyongyang and denying the divinity of Kim Jong Il.

If people could get the impulse to religiosity out of their system, they'd be a lot harder to fool, whether by a Stalin, a Hitler, a Bush, or an Al Sharpton. Can anyone see that as a bad thing?

Crosshair: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is responsible for about 60 million deaths IIRC.

No it isn't. I know what you're going to say (or to be more accurate; what right-wing talking point you're going to spread); that because Silent Spring got DDT banned, Malaria spread and millions died.

But guess what asshole: DDT has never been banned for anti-malaria use. Ever. In any country.

Any more lies you'd like me to correct for you?

Larry Mahnken: And to be frank, the Bible is pretty crappy literature.

Proverbs is good, Ecclesiastes is beautiful and Song of Solomon is practically porn.

We have a supernatural enemy

Sounds like you're farked then.

jimmyhaha: Of course, they teach the Bible in plenty of public schools, and I don't know that I've ever heard of a public school ever teaching Harry Potter, but let's not let that stand in the way of a good time.

I was taught Harry Potter in my last theology class in my last semester of college, a Catholic university. It got me into the books hardcore.

Crosshair Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is responsible for about 60 million deaths IIRC.

No book can possibly be responsible for anyone's death, unless you clock someone over the head with a twelve-pound copy of Halliday & Resnick or some such.

Yep, nothing says "I beleive in the Constitution of the United States of America" like a book burnin'. I bet they're all still mad that Huckabee didn't win the nomination...

Talking about "Bad" books it turns out my dad has a copy of Mao's Little Red Book up in the attic. I should go find it some time.

Crosshair: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is responsible for about 60 million deaths IIRC.

Fail. DDT has never been banned for anti-malarial use. The only reason it's still effective for that is because we stopped dumping it willy nilly.