BUUUURN IT!!

[dannubis]

One can only hope.

[Al B. Sure!]

Is he still touring the USA and hanging with Slowwhand?

Send him back to Canada!

[Provost Harrison]

Why do people in the back of beyond take such grave offence to this and start actually killing people? Can't they just burn some bibles...surely that would balance it out.

All I can say is, think of the greenhouse gases emitted!

[Al B. Sure!]

Why do people in the back of beyond take such grave offence to this and start actually killing people? Can't they just burn some bibles...surely that would balance it out.

All I can say is, think of the greenhouse gases emitted!

Muslims burning Bibles

You do realize that is sacrilegious in Islam? The Bible is a holy book.

[bc1871]

I thought this Nazi pastor was not reconsidering. Last news article I read said that he's determined to go ahead with this.

Though you may not agree with the pastor’s stance, it’s rather juvenile to refer to him as a Nazi, since I don’t see him espousing the values of National Socialism.

[Al B. Sure!]

Though you may not agree with the pastor’s stance, it’s rather juvenile to refer to him as a Nazi, since I don’t see him espousing the values of National Socialism.

No. He espouses the values of Benism.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

this thread should have been a poll

[Boris Godunov]

Wasn't book burning a pretty common Nazi pasttime?

[Provost Harrison]

Muslims burning Bibles

You do realize that is sacrilegious in Islam? The Bible is a holy book.

Holy book? You know, that rhymes with...

[Al B. Sure!]

Wasn't book burning a pretty common Nazi pasttime?

Yeah but it obviously wasn't done exclusively by Nazis and it only apparently occurred, judging by Wikipedia, on May 10th, 1933 by German students, before Hitler became Fuhrer. Due to rain, some of the burnings were postponed a few days.

Apparently, it was more a one-time symbolic gesture by the Nazis. No indication on Wikipedia that it was done repeatedly, let alone a common act.

[Al B. Sure!]

On April 6, 1933, the Main Office for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Association (Deutsche Studentenschaft) proclaimed a nationwide "Action against the Un-German Spirit", which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ("Säuberung") by fire. Local chapters were to supply the press with releases and commissioned articles, sponsor well-known Nazi figures to speak at public gatherings, and negotiate for radio broadcast time. On April 8 the students association also drafted the Twelve Theses which deliberately evoked Martin Luther and the historic burning of "Un-German" books at the Wartburg festival on the 300th anniversary of the posting of Luther's Theses. The theses called for a "pure" national language and culture. Placards publicized the theses, which attacked "Jewish intellectualism", asserted the need to "purify" German language and literature, and demanded that universities be centers of German nationalism. The students described the "action" as a response to a worldwide Jewish "smear campaign" against Germany and an affirmation of traditional German values.
In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on May 10, 1933 the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. On the night of May 10, in most university towns, nationalist students marched in torchlight parades "against the un-German spirit." The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators. At the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and unwanted books into the bonfires with great joyous ceremony, band-playing, songs, "fire oaths," and incantations. In Berlin, some 40,000 people gathered in the Opernplatz to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!” Goebbels enjoined the crowd. “Yes to decency and morality in family and state! I consign to the flames the writings of Heinrich Mann, Ernst Gläser, Erich Kästner.”
The era of extreme Jewish intellectualism is now at an end. The breakthrough of the German revolution has again cleared the way on the German path...The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character. It is to this end that we want to educate you. As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death - this is the task of this young generation. And thus you do well in this midnight hour to commit to the flames the evil spirit of the past. This is a strong, great and symbolic deed - a deed which should document the following for the world to know - Here the intellectual foundation of the November Republic is sinking to the ground, but from this wreckage the phoenix of a new spirit will triumphantly rise.
— Joseph Goebbels , Speech to the students in Berlin
Not all book burnings took place on May 10, as the German Student Association had planned. Some were postponed a few days because of rain. Others, based on local chapter preference, took place on June 21, the summer solstice, a traditional date of celebration. Nonetheless, in 34 university towns across Germany the "Action against the Un-German Spirit" was a success, enlisting widespread newspaper coverage.[citation needed] And in some places, notably Berlin, radio broadcasts brought the speeches, songs, and ceremonial incantations "live" to countless German listeners.
Among the authors whose books student leaders burned that night numbered well-known socialists such as Bertolt Brecht and August Bebel; the founder of the concept of communism, Karl Marx; critical “bourgeois” writers like the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, and “corrupting foreign influences,” among them American author Ernest Hemingway, British writer H. G. Wells; and of course, notable Jewish authors such as Franz Werfel, Max Brod, and Stefan Zweig. Especially notable among those works burned were the writings of beloved nineteenth-century German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who wrote in his 1820-1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen": "Where they burn books, they will also burn people."

However, note also Allied Denazification:

In 1946 the Allied occupation authorities drew up a list of over 30,000 titles, ranging from school books to poetry and including works by such authors as von Clausewitz. Millions of copies of these books were confiscated and destroyed. The representative of the Military Directorate admitted that the order in principle was no different from the Nazi book burnings.[1]
Artworks were under the same censorship as other media;
"all collections of works of art related or dedicated to the perpetuation of German militarism or Nazism will be closed permanently and taken into custody.".
The directives were very broadly interpreted, leading to the destruction of thousands of paintings and thousands more were shipped to deposits in the U.S. Those confiscated paintings still surviving in U.S. custody include for example a painting "depicting a couple of middle aged women talking in a sunlit street in a small town".[2]

[Boris Godunov]

Al, you really need to learn the meaning of "rhetorical questions" and overcome your urge to be a pedant..

[Al B. Sure!]

Al, you really need to learn the meaning of "rhetorical questions" and overcome your urge to be a pedant..

*scribbles notes* 'make sure I don't do this around females'

[Elok]

That's good music.

...you're just screwing with us now, right?

Re:OP, the funny thing is, this pastor is in Gainesville, FL, which (at least according to my wife, who has friends there) is something of a liberal college-town enclave in an otherwise arch-conservative region. And burning books is bad. Where the deuce is he getting Korans from? If he's going to a bookstore and buying copies specifically to burn, he's merely increasing demand for the book. Unless... he's just doing this to get attention! Never would have thought of that, huh?

[Al B. Sure!]

The Village People make good music. So what?