Someone burns bibles by a church and they’re calling it a “hate crime”.
Police in Tennessee are investigating after a trailer full of Bibles was found burning near a church on Easter.
Mt. Juliet police officers and firefighters responded to the fire on a street outside of the Global Vision Bible Church around 6 a.m. Sunday, March 31.
After the flames were extinguished, deputies with the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) took over the investigation. The department said the trailer had been dropped off in the middle of the intersection and then “intentionally set on fire.”
Agreed. I might have rescued a nice one for personal use had I seen the blaze. A Bible full of lies and contradictions is easier to debunk and harder to defend than a mythical bible full of lies and contradictions. I say, “Keep those babies hanging around.”
Just for a little background, Greg Locke is infamous for burning books so someone returning the favor isn’t impossible to imagine. I’m afraid Locke is quite a show boater though so him staging the Bible burning to make the news isn’t hard to imagine either. His sermons would be hilarious if they weren’t so dangerous. He does things like threatening to expose the witch among the congregation and that all disease and sickness is caused by demons and offering to go to a mental hospital and cure everyone. The latest is that him and his wife (second wife, the first one having been unceremoniously dumped for his secretary) have been proclaimed apostles. Does it sound like I’m making this shit up? I wish I were.
It is absurd because everytime their Bible is burnt in a disaster house fire they go " our Bible survived completely intact this is the proof that our Christianity is the true and only right religion " however also them when a Bible is burnt by someone to protest their religious and political oppression " our holy book is burnt by a horrible bigot this is proof that Christians are the most discriminated group on the planet we suffer the most hate crimes " yet they ignore anti-Semitic, homophobic or other hate crimes and they want to impose their oppressive religious political laws on society by making gay marriage and abortion illegal but whine and complain that they are somehow the most target religious group on earth .
I’d be more concerned with the notion a deity turns a blind eye to all the unnecessary suffering, including its adherents who perished in the fire, but allegedly took time out to save a book. Luckily it’s a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy anyway. I mean if a copy of the koran survived a fire then Muslims would likely make the same claim, and Christians would ignore it, that’s the problem with irrational beliefs in magic that involve selection bias, you can basically cherry pick anything to suit your claims.
That’s a hard pass, thank you. Any chance you have fire proof kindles? Or should I just go ahead and pray that the fire that immolates me, spares my kindle? Then others (Jeff Bezos presumably) can ponder which deity performed that miracle.
Oh wait, it’s Greg Locke. A wacko Trumpanzee and Christian Nationalist moon pie.
This is the twat who described autistic spectrum conditions as “demonic possession”.
No, you fuckwit, it’s a proper, diagnosable medical condition with a well understood neurological and genetic basis. Go back to the 10th century, where you and the rest of your dribbling knuckle draggers belong.
Why would anyone think this was miracle? I don’t believe supernatural events are possible, and will remain dubious until someone demonstrates they are.
It doesn’t seem like a miracle to me either. But they see it as such, the decision as to where to place the book at the time was outside of their usual habit.
See how little it takes for someone to see inspiration or a miracle? A neighbor below me was running a ministry in his deli business after hours. For some reason he wanted me to help him type up and edit several hours of recordings he had made for a book.
I said, well let me listen to hear what you have. I did, and I told him I couldn’t devote any time towards this publication. Which was true, because it would have taken a huge chunk of time to do so, plus what I heard in his recordings didn’t sound impressive, even on mundane accounts.
There are a lot of claims of statues crying, moving, bleeding etc. I visited a neighbor years ago that had a picture of a famous guru in India, the photo generated honey. (so he said)
when I visted him, I sat talking to him, I noticed the photo and a line of some thick fluid dripping down from his finger. I stood up and looked at it, and asked what is that? He claimed that it was honey that spontaneously appeared. He had a small container at the base to catch it. He said it was useful for putting on cuts, scrapes, and even mundane use as a sweetener. I completely forgot about this, and your comment brought this to mind.
I really didn’t believe, as it just looked like he had just squirted it out with a bottle with a nozzle. Well, he gave me some, and I don’t remember using it.
Anyways, there are other stories of ash appearing on photos of this same guru. Also stories about the guru opening up portals for people to travel to a different location. This was about poor family that didn’t have enough money to send their child to a religious festival, so the guru sent him there by that means.
Its their personal experience, and its difficult to believe as most people have not experienced anything like that.
You’re thinking about the weeping crucifix of Mumbai. Indian rationalist superstar Sanal Edamaruku established that the “tears” from the crucifix was actually leaking sewage water that was sucked up by the wooden statue due to capillary action. The Indian catholic church accused Edamaruku of blasphemy, and due to archaic Indian anti-blasphemy laws, he had to escape India.
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