18 Oct 2009
Get the Marshmallows!

I can't give you the actual link to this invitation, because the church's server has been hit so hard that the hosting company took it offline. It's from Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, NC. But I will quote it in it's entirety:

Come to our Halloween book burning. We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect. These are perversions of God's Word the King James Bible.

We will also be burning Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel, contempory Christian, jazz, soul, oldies but goldies, etc.

We will also be burning Satan's popular books written by heretics like Westcott & Hort, Bruce Metzger, Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham, Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa, The Pope, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning, William Young, etc.

We are not burning Bibles written in other languages that are based on the TR. We are not burning the Wycliffe, Tyndale, Geneva or other translations that are based on the TR.

We will be serving Bar-b-Que Chicken, fried chicken, and all the sides.

If you have any books or music to donate, please call us for pick-up. If you like you can drop them off at our church door anytime. Thanks.

This had to go in 'Humor' because I laughed so hard when I read it that I about fell off my seat - even though I am horrified by book burning (yes, even burning books with which I disagree or books I think are positively evil). Southern Gospel as satanic music? Billy Graham as a heretic? These folks need to get out more and meet some real heretics! I'd be happy to provide the introductions!

I've gotta wonder where they're getting the material to burn? Surely none of the members of this upstanding congregation have any of that papist trash lying around, do they? Will they be burning new, recently purchased editions? Thereby enriching Satan's minions? Surely they're not suggesting stealing these heretical tomes for the fires, are they?

I also have a suggestion for them. If they're really looking for heresy, they should take a gander at the Conservative Bible Project. Even I, heathen, libertarian and loath of philistine displays of cultural barbarism, might join in setting a match to that one!

Here's a link to a story (with video) from The Telegraph. One look at the pastor of this institution will give you another hint as to why this went to 'Humor'...

via Laudator Temporis Acti

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Court claim over camel 'beauty'

Why not? This is, after all, from a country where the only beauty contests are for camels and goats.

A Saudi camel owner sues oil giant Saudi Aramco for $250,000 after a prized beast falls into a hole in the desert.

(link) [BBC News]

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