Church Plans on Burning the Qur’an on 9/11 August 20, 2010

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.”…

Digital Book Burning June 10, 2010

click to enlarge Randall Monroe recently posted this comic strip over at xkcd. Hysterical and foreboding.

Burning Books to Stay Warm January 5, 2010

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…

Church Releases Video of Halloween Book Burning November 13, 2009

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…

About That Halloween Book Burning November 5, 2009

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…