North Carolina church to burn ‘Satan’s books,’ including works of Mother Teresa

By Kathleen Miller
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 -- 11:50 am
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A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James versions of the Bible, popular books by many religious authors and even country music.

The website for the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C., says there are "scriptural bases" for the book burning. The site quotes Acts 19:18-20: "And many that believed, came and confessed and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed."

Church leaders deem Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible, as well as at least seven other versions of the Bible as "Satan's Bibles," according to the website. Attendees will also set fire to "Satan's popular books" such as the work of "heretics" including the Pope, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Rick Warren.

"I believe the King James version is God's preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God," Pastor Marc Grizzard told a local news station of his 14-member parish.

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Grizzard's parish website explains that the Bible is the "final authority concerning all matters of faith and practice," for Amazing Grace Baptist Church. In the Parish doctrinal statement, Grizzard expounds that "the Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning, and all issues of interpretation and meaning shall be determined by the preacher."

The event also seeks to destroy "Satan's music" which includes every genre from country,rap and rock to "soft and easy" and "Southern Gospel" and" contemporary Christian."

David Lynch, a resident of nearby Asheville, N.C., told Raw Story "it's a little disconcerting how close this is to my home."

"They are burning so much stuff I've dubbed them the hypocritical Christian Taliban," Lynch said in a phone interview with Raw Story. "Just the scope of all the information they want to destroy is pretty disturbing."

Church leaders did not respond to Raw Story's requests for comment, but the website notes they will be providing "bar-b-que chicken, fried chicken and all the sides" at the book burning.

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  • gr0o
    Please don't lump 'the Carolinas" together. This is a fringe church with 14 members and is not representative of the progress NC has made in the last 20 years. Sure, we still have our Virginia Foxxes and our Pastor Grizzards, but we are the only southern state that does not have a 'defense of marriage, one man one woman' law and a lot of good people, including Christians that don't buy into the political dogma, are working very hard to keep us out of the next dark age.
  • redstateblue
    And we helped elect President Obama!
  • lasucks
    another cult masquerading as theology.
  • Mooftown
    that is incredibly stupid
  • All the bibles are nonsense, including the KJV as every intelligent person has discovered for hundreds of years.

    The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. -- Albert Einstein

    And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter -- Thomas Jefferson, in an 1823 letter to John Adams.

    I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular Superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men women and children since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • lovemikeperez
    I am an intelligent person and believe in the Bible and it being God's word. And Thomas Jefferson was a very religious man. He said, "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." He himself was a plantation owner. Jefferson was not an atheist but just believed in religious freedom for everyone.
  • Name
    No, Jefferson was a Deist, which is much closer to atheism than to any sort of theism.
  • angelaf
    "as every intelligent person has discovered for hundreds of years?"

    Christian does not necessarily mean dumb. You pulled two quotes from two geniuses, but their atheism is not the font of their genius. I just can't stand the popular sentiment that belief in a higher power must therefore mean a lack of intelligence--especially as I am a doctoral student in a highly competitive graduate program, and still somehow manage to keep up with the classwork and get articles published even with my "deficiency" of believing in a higher power.
  • Ray
    Do you have an original thought or do you just quote others because you yourself are
    incapable of independent reasoning?
    You're as retarded as the idiots burning books.
  • Vampyre_Poet
    Does it matter if they quote from others? If a person is so like minded as to share the same thought does that make them retarded? I quote friends and other authors all the time because I share the same ideals as they do. Does that make me retarded? Why not just go to the book burning with your buddies up there and leave the rest of use to our own ideals.
  • techman_83
    Not that I back Simkatu, but Isn't that the same thing that most Christians do on a daily basis by quoting the bible and referrencing the passage? Somehow I put more trust in the words of Einstein and Jefferson instead of fairytales and proverbs.
  • essar1
    Amazing how prescient Jefferson's words were.
  • moi2cents
    I have no problem with them burning books, provided the books are their own.
    Whatever books they've already read have clearly befuddled them.
    Seriously...if I had a book by...say, Glen Beck, or Rush Limbaugh, I sure wouldn't just leave it around--a child might find it. And I wouldn't give it to anyone I care about.
  • Hail Satan, Jesus, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Great Pumpkin, Tooth Fairy, and all their minions!

    P.S. King James was a total Douchebag!
  • asiliveandbreathe
    King James lied. It states that Jesus walked among the "corn". Where the hell did they get corn way back then. They discovered it in the New World.
  • DougI
    Don't you know, Jesus was an American who wrote the Constitution so he clearly knew about corn.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    I think a more pertinent question would be 'why do we decorate evergreen trees when you can be damn sure there wasn't one within 5000 miles of Jarusalem when jebus walked the earth?'

    The answer, of course, is that it was originally a holiday celebrating the winter solstice, which christianity hijacked and made their own, as long as the people they conquered called it 'christmas' instead of 'yule.'

    See dictionary dot com slash yule
  • Stig
    That's right man, whatever they can not use or abuse, they will destroyed.
  • That's right, get off the real point and discuss semantics. The whole point is that these morons actually believe that their god will somehow be impressed by their vandalism, which they, of course, see as an act of worship. Cowardly parishioners of a lunatic pastor, it would seem, are behaving exactly like the sheep their bible would have them be.
  • Oxhead
    "Corn" at the time the KJV was written had a different meaning than it does for you. It could be used for any type of grain.
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