This sort of thing worries me. See the article here.
What to do? Well, perhaps an answer lies in history. On July 1st, 1681, a Roman Catholic Archbishop by the name of Oliver Plunkett became a martyr after he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn by the English. See here for the details of why, when, how etc. Anyway, the preserved head of the unfortunate chap can be viewed at St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, Ireland.
Enough of the history lesson, I suggest that the ashes from the book burning should be gathered, preserved for viewing at a library and canonized in an act of defiance against this abomination of the glory of the written word.
Just a thought.
The bible-burning is an insult to the memory of Holocast survivors and an insult to basic human intelligence. Someone please fumigate North Carolina. They got some serious larvae what needs ditching.
ReplyDeleteI think it's the symbolism of the book burning that I find most disappointing Mitzi but yes any burning of theological texts is insulting to many people and a staggering display of ignorance.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of thing happened in Berlin in 1933 and it certainly didn't help matters. I believe there is a display of books such as those destroyed at the nazi burnings at the Yad Vashem memorial. So I guess it is possible for books to become martyrs.