Posted on 09/18/2008 5:21:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Get the scene. The McCain/Palin ticket wins in November and soon afterwards mobs of wild eyed bible-toting evangelicals will burn stacks of books in giant bonfires. Sound ridiculous? Well, that is exactly what Andrew Greeley is laughably claiming in his latest Chicago Sun-Times column ominously titled, "Next Chapter for radical right: Burn books." Years ago, Greeley sounded somewhat sane but lately he has gone off the deep end such as his claim in June that it is racist not to vote for Obama. Greeley's latest sanity-challenged screed presents a bleak future of crazed book-burning evangelicals taking over the country. Try not to laugh too hard as you read Greeley's rantings (emphasis mine):
Let's fill some trucks with books, drive them downtown and burn them in front of the Chicago Public Library. Let's drive other trucks to the regional libraries and burn them, too . . . I mean the books, not the libraries, though libraries are the source of the problem. If it weren't for the libraries, it would be hard for innocent young people to be corrupted by the filth pouring out of the country's printers.
Instead of burning books or libraries, perhaps we ought to start smashing printing presses. They have served as tools of sin and the devil since Herr Gutenberg invented them.
When the radical evangelicals take over the White House, lists of books that one shouldn't read or in fact are forbidden to read will spread around the country like wildfire, you should excuse the expression. Unless a much tighter control is imposed on distribution of books, the morals of the country will continue to deteriorate, which will in turn weaken us in the long war on terror.
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Kool-Aide too weak. I think their snorting cow-pies!
Good idea, especially if your church needs to save money on heating. Sad part is the books probably don't burn very hot, despite their contents.
-Fellow NCer
Greeley should have been defrocked years ago.
Huh? Since when has anyone had a book burning in the U.S.? Is the guy projecting?
Leftists ban more books than Evangelicals.
Most examples of book burning (ie denying adults to right to read what they want) lately have come from the left.
The only restriction in access almost all conservatives I know want is to have our children read age appropriate books.
Isn’t Andrew Greeley the ex-priest who wrote some trashy romance novels?
...and the sky is going to fall too. So there!
another Chicken Little “the sky is falling! the sky is falling!” This nutcase had nothing to do with being evangelical, this is one of Satan’s “zitheads”
Andrew Greeley the failed priest who wrote some trashy anti-Catholic novels.
Yep...Burn Greeley’s books first
My personal quest is to get some hungry lions and feed them PETA members, with an atheist thrown in every now and then for a change in diet.
After hog-tying Andrew Greeley, and throwing him on top of the pyre to roast.
Jackass.
What libtards never seem to realize, is that choosing not to stock certain books in a public library is not necessarily censorship. Books cost money. Budgets are limited. Any book chosen necessarily means another is excluded. Choosing to stock “To Kill a Mockingbird” instead of “Daddy does Suzie” is not censorship.
Better question....
Why hasn’t the archdiocese defrocked and excommunicated ‘em?
Let’s fill some trucks with books, drive them downtown and burn them in front of the Chicago Public Library. Let’s drive other trucks to the regional libraries and burn them, too
Again?
Whatever. Trash is trash.
You are correct. Ordination doesn’t make someone “impeccable”, that is, unable to sin. Only liberalism does that :0)
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