Missouri Pastor Insists Youth 'Book Burn' Event on Halloween Is Not What You Think

[essentialsaltes]

It's pretty much exactly what I thought it was!

Harry Potter books, tarot cards, Ouija boards, inappropriate contentography, or anything else considered "ungodly," on the other hand? They take no issue with cremating those.

On Halloween, Emmanuel Chapel will simply burn whatever God moves them to burn, Hill says.

"I said to someone in the comments, 'If God told me to burn the book Clifford the Big Red Dog, then I'd burn the book Clifford the Big Red Dog,'" Hill tells the RFT.

 

[jayem]

This idiocy makes me embarrassed to live in Missouri. I can think of several prime candidates for the flames:

On The Origin of Species, and The Descent of Man. Both of Darwin's works have to be among the topmost fire-worthy.

Das Kapital (Karl Marx), and the Communist Manifesto, (Marx and Friedrich Engels).

Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)

Ulysses (James Joyce)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (John Shelby Spong)

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

Fanny Hill (John Cleland)

Why I Am Not a Christian (Bertrand Russell)

The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)

The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

There are many more, But these would make a nice bonfire to entertain the true believers.