PygmyPlaidGiraffe
31st March 2003, 04:29 PM
Originally posted by crocodile deathroll
I agree Saddam has to go, but if American troops bringing in bibles in their back backs, they are only playing into his hands. I suggest they should burn their bibles or at least use it as toilet paper when they are caught short in the desert.
Sorry this is anecdotal:
In my ex-home town there is a fundamentalist church (Full Gospel Assembly) that will buy copies and collect copies of new age and other "offensive" books such as:
The Celestene Prophecy
J RedField ISBN: 0446671002
and
Conversations With God
N D Walsch ISBN: 1571740562
and books that describe a family of 2 adults, same sex that adopt a child.
The church board activley encourages people to bring their copies to the church. and lobby public libraries to give up their copies.
When they get a sizable amount they gather members of the church and have a good ol' book burning and celebration for doing God's will.
Indications are, according to these people that Churches across the world are holding similar burnings to save the "wandering souls" from wayward and wrong teachings with in these items. These may be books, CDs, DVDs. I am not sure how common these activities really are, or whether these people are stating this to give their "Holy" movement some sort of authority.
I have read the celestine Prophecy and I have read the Bible and I find no more reason to burn either of these books than any other type of print. I had to ask these people if it is appropriate to burn print, any print, including Bibles. Their responses to me seem contradictory (go a head and imagine what some of the responses may be).
I never pointed out an irony to them that as they buy more books to burn, the publisher just prints more books because it percieves a demand for the books . This is similar to the American individuals that bought French wine, which they plan to boycott, then poured it on the ground. The extent of human stupidity ... :D
I am concerned that on this forum someone is suggesting that print be burned. I know people on this forum are skeptical about the contents of the Bible, Celestene Prophecy, and Conversations With God., but print is print.
Print and ideas are powerful and influential.
Regimes may burn much print (Nazi Germany, SHah Controlled Iran) or incarcerate authors (almost every political entity has).
Organizations may call for the ban of print, and a legal opinion, fatwa or decree may be handed down by a religious leader or autocrat to ban a book or call for the assasination of an author.
Print can be percieved as dangerous, irrelevant, outdated, unimaginative, etc, but in my view non of these reasons justify a call for the practice of destroying print. If there are other reasons people give that I do not know about I will consider them. As of yet, I am not convinced that burning any print is required.
As of all the reasons I have thus far considered, non have influenced me to take flame to pages of print.
;) Now to demonstrate my hypocrisy: I have used newspapers to start camp fires and wood burning stoves. I do recycle newspapers. I suppose I am practicing the destruction of print in this sense.
;):D
I agree Saddam has to go, but if American troops bringing in bibles in their back backs, they are only playing into his hands. I suggest they should burn their bibles or at least use it as toilet paper when they are caught short in the desert.
Sorry this is anecdotal:
In my ex-home town there is a fundamentalist church (Full Gospel Assembly) that will buy copies and collect copies of new age and other "offensive" books such as:
The Celestene Prophecy
J RedField ISBN: 0446671002
and
Conversations With God
N D Walsch ISBN: 1571740562
and books that describe a family of 2 adults, same sex that adopt a child.
The church board activley encourages people to bring their copies to the church. and lobby public libraries to give up their copies.
When they get a sizable amount they gather members of the church and have a good ol' book burning and celebration for doing God's will.
Indications are, according to these people that Churches across the world are holding similar burnings to save the "wandering souls" from wayward and wrong teachings with in these items. These may be books, CDs, DVDs. I am not sure how common these activities really are, or whether these people are stating this to give their "Holy" movement some sort of authority.
I have read the celestine Prophecy and I have read the Bible and I find no more reason to burn either of these books than any other type of print. I had to ask these people if it is appropriate to burn print, any print, including Bibles. Their responses to me seem contradictory (go a head and imagine what some of the responses may be).
I never pointed out an irony to them that as they buy more books to burn, the publisher just prints more books because it percieves a demand for the books . This is similar to the American individuals that bought French wine, which they plan to boycott, then poured it on the ground. The extent of human stupidity ... :D
I am concerned that on this forum someone is suggesting that print be burned. I know people on this forum are skeptical about the contents of the Bible, Celestene Prophecy, and Conversations With God., but print is print.
Print and ideas are powerful and influential.
Regimes may burn much print (Nazi Germany, SHah Controlled Iran) or incarcerate authors (almost every political entity has).
Organizations may call for the ban of print, and a legal opinion, fatwa or decree may be handed down by a religious leader or autocrat to ban a book or call for the assasination of an author.
Print can be percieved as dangerous, irrelevant, outdated, unimaginative, etc, but in my view non of these reasons justify a call for the practice of destroying print. If there are other reasons people give that I do not know about I will consider them. As of yet, I am not convinced that burning any print is required.
As of all the reasons I have thus far considered, non have influenced me to take flame to pages of print.
;) Now to demonstrate my hypocrisy: I have used newspapers to start camp fires and wood burning stoves. I do recycle newspapers. I suppose I am practicing the destruction of print in this sense.
;):D