Don't approve of it, wouldn't do it, would try to talk someone planning on doing it out of it, am against what it symbolizes; but I believe profoundly that they must have the right to destroy books they own in a free country.
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Atheist book burning
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Meh. If they want to burn books then let them. They probably had to go out and buy them anyway.
If they want to destroy their belongings then who is anyone to tell them they can't? Cunt
Roger that. If a couple of people want to put the match to a few of their personal belongings (including books) for whatever reason, it's their call as long as they don't start a godammned forest fire or something. Burning books is strange, but again, there's a wide gulf between tossing back a couple beers and torching a single copy of the Torah and a large body of official authority scouring the countryside for heretical material to feed the near constant bonfires of ignorance. One is distasteful (to some of us), the other is a massive abuse of authority and absolutely terrifying to contemplate.
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 (January 12, 2012 at 10:25 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well, let's be fair. These guys are burning a barrel of books. The book burnings engaged in by religious authorities have been systematic, comprehensive, long lasting, and carried out (mostly) during a time when it was actually difficult to replace them. A stocking clerk put those particular books back on the shelf before these guys even started the fire.Exactly. These people are just burning a few copies of books that they own. It's not like the church book burnings which destroyed all the copies on Earth of certain books. But for every bible you burn, there are a million more out there, so bibles are not an endangered species.
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-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife  RE: Atheist book burning
January 20, 2012 at 3:58 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2012 at 4:01 am by Cosmic Ape.)
I'm perfectly ok with burning psuedoscience books and that includes religions with crap like dianetics in it, like Scientology. But I am however ok with letting people keep their bibles and korans and I dont wish to burn them or keep them away from anyone (even though i wouldnt mind that either). Just keep that trash the fuck away from me, the schools and the government worldwide and then people will eventually drop the religions and move on completely. I'm pretty confident that as Science grows and makes our life better people will drop the superfluous religious nonsense. Just a matter of when if you ask me. Bill O'Reilly wouldnt say Atheism is dying if he wasnt deathly afraid of it, he even thinks he beat Richard Dawkins on his show...wow
i would use it for toilet paper.....what a waste...but probably very uncomfortable toilet paper..
I don't believe in censorship (except child porn).
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I absolutely hate book burning. It reminds me of Nazi Germany. I can't belive any thinking person would burn a book. Honestly for me, my reaction is stronger to a burning book than it is to the burning of my nation's flag. This is the second thread that I've read here related to burning bibles or other books. I truly hope this is not something that anyone finds acceptable.
RE: Atheist book burning
January 21, 2012 at 2:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2012 at 2:26 pm by AthiestAtheist.)
(January 21, 2012 at 1:15 am)orogenicman Wrote: I don't believe in censorship (except child porn).This is not censorship. (January 21, 2012 at 2:35 am)J.D. Wrote: I absolutely hate book burning. It reminds me of Nazi Germany.That's not exactly the worst thing the Nazis did, it feels like you're forgetting the actual bad stuff they did. (January 21, 2012 at 2:35 am)J.D. Wrote: I truly hope this is not something that anyone finds acceptable.Well I truly hope you learn the difference between symbolism and violence, and there is a pretty big effing difference.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife  (January 21, 2012 at 2:35 am)J.D. Wrote: I absolutely hate book burning. It reminds me of Nazi Germany. I can't belive any thinking person would burn a book. Honestly for me, my reaction is stronger to a burning book than it is to the burning of my nation's flag. This is the second thread that I've read here related to burning bibles or other books. I truly hope this is not something that anyone finds acceptable. Read the thread. Sounds like a nice mix of opinions. I could care less if people want to burn their own books, especially ones as useless as these.
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