Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Christians burning bibles?

Saw this video, as I'm sure many of you have by now.  I suppose even bad PR is good PR, but thinking the KJV is the ONLY legitimate version of the bible and everything else is of the devil?  Really?

I made a comment on Facebook that I wished the media would, just once, single out normal Christians doing normal things.  But what is normal?  I suppose that's rather subjective when it comes to practicing your faith.  What I may view as "normal" is probably viewed as "weird" by others.  But I think you get the idea.  The media isn't interested in portraying "normal" - people want the fringe.  They want the weirdos.  Human beings have an insatiable curiosity in the bizarre, paying $3.00 at a fair to get a glimpse of the world's largest snake or smallest horse.  We want to hear about the parents who allow their children to die because they don't believe in medical care, we line up to read stories of famous evangelists brought down by sin, we marvel at snake handling churches.

Now a self-proclaimed Christian, bible-believing church is burning bibles.

Tell me, what message does this send to non-Christians?  Do these folks really believe that their little book burning is going to have people lining up on their church steps on Sunday morning wanting to know Jesus?  What exactly is the statement they are wanting to make here?

Perhaps they just wanted to do a publicity stunt?  Mission accomplished, however, I'm pretty sure that's not the mission Jesus sent his disciples out on.

Don't take my word for it - check out their website here.  Happily their website link was mistyped on the news report, and I highly doubt they'll be winning any awards for design, spelling and grammar, which should all be listed in their "Perversions" section, I'm just sayin'...

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