Atheist book burning

[Doubting Thomas]

I understand that this is probably just a symbolic protest, but as Sleeping Demon pointed out, it's symbolic of destruction of ideas by force. When the Christians or Nazis burned books, it was about removing any ideas they disagreed with and not allowing anyone to have access to them. Burning books, even symbolically, should be offensive to anyone who anyone who values free expression of ideas. How many of these atheists burning books which are sacred to others would be in favor of government censorship? It's that whole idea of "I don't like this so nobody else should ever have access to it either" attitude which I hate among Christians, so to support this would be hypocritical of me.

Since it's just a small group of Atheists burning a small number of books in a barrel, it is just symbolic. But let's not stoop to their level.