Here they go again.This time it is the Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Florida who have declared 9/11, the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, "International Burn a Koran Day." Outside of the guaranteed publicity, The Dove World Outreach Center supplies these ten reasons on why burning the Qur'an is a righteous act. The Church also offers "free shelter and food for women who want to escape from Islam."Their request for a permit to hold the book-burning has been denied by local fire officials but the church still plans on proceeding. In an email to...
Digital Book Burning
click to enlargeRandall Monroe recently posted this comic strip over at xkcd. Hysterical and foreboding.
Burning Books to Stay Warm
As a record setting cold snap grips the United Kingdom some people are taking to burning books to stay warm.Since 2008 the cost of gas has risen 40% and electricity has risen 20% leaving many pensioners in a quandary on how to stay warm on a fixed income.Enter the good old hardback book. It has now become less expensive to burn a hardback then to burn coal.Charity shops are reporting "that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves." Big thick books like encyclopedias are selling well because they can...
Church Releases Video of Halloween Book Burning
WARNING - The following video is hysterical.Well, here we have it. The planned pyre of blasphemy planned for Halloween by the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina appears to have been reduced to a kitchen-sized garbage can filled with torn up books and CD's.Evidently the church has deemed this event a success. For on the sidebar of their website there is already mention of a 2010 book burning event.Here is the video in its entirety as released by the church. Note: It is a huge WMV file.Previously on Book Patrol:A Halloween Book Burning: Only God's Word Will SurviveAbout...
About That Halloween Book Burning
Well now that Halloween has come and gone Book Patrol wanted to follow up on our previous post regarding the planned Halloween book burning at the The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina.The good news is that book burning never took place. It rained and the police were present. Interestingly enough, as you'll see below, the congregation actually prayed for the rain to come. They also declared that the "Book Burning was a great success." The bad news is that they claim to have destroyed the books anyway.Here is a version of the evening's festivities from someone who...