# Book Burning, Georgia Style **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 11, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366 "2006-05-11T13:45:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/41 "2006-05-13T02:27:42Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] As a native Georgian, let me explain. Here in Georgia, we’re not like other states. We don’t throw our mentally ill people out in the streets like a lot of states do. Well, not all of’ 'em. We’re PROUD of them. We elect them to the legislature and the Senate and make them our religious and cultural leaders. [/QUOTE] I just wish there was something to fix our political embarassments as effectively as that speeding taxi fixed our worst literary one. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/42 "2006-05-13T04:37:57Z")
[QUOTE=Rhiannon8404] My Christian school told me it was “Kings In Satan’s Service”. Also AC/DC stands for Against Christ/Devil’s Children. [/QUOTE] I thought it was actually Anti Christ/ Devil’s Child. I actually heard that on the Discovery Channel. There was a show on the unabomber, and it said that he wore a hat with the words AC/DC, and they stood for what I said above. They didn’t mention that it was a band name. So when I started high school and saw people wearing AC/DC hats, I was freaked out because I thought they were imitating the unabomber or satanists or something. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/43 "2006-05-13T05:23:35Z")
So, what does the little lightning bolt in the middle stand for, Harry Potter? Now everything makes so much more sense… ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/44 "2006-05-13T05:35:08Z")
> [@](#): > > **Slithy Tove** : I just wish there was something to fix our political embarassments as effectively as that speeding taxi fixed our worst literary one. James Dickey was killed by a speeding taxi? ---
**Author:** ![sleeping\_mud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sleeping\_mud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping_mud)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/45 "2006-05-13T05:57:49Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] [Channeling **Der Trihs**]You are being redundant here! I hate America![/C **DT**] She was grossly mistaken. It actually stands for “Kids in Satan’s Service.” Jeez…some people. 😃 [/QUOTE] Thats Knights! gad… ---
**Author:** ![sleeping\_mud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sleeping\_mud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping_mud)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/46 "2006-05-13T06:02:55Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I thought it was “Knights In Satan’s Service.” And W.A.S.P stands for “We Are Satan’s Pawns.” [/QUOTE] We Are Sexual Perverts. Boy, theres no good initials anymore. Don’t most libraries carry books of spells? Has anyone told her that? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/47 "2006-05-13T07:57:14Z")
I saw a book of spells in my local W H Smith only yesterday, ISYN. It was written by a “druidess and water witch”. Randomly flicking through it, I found a spell that was something to do with a safe journey, and the incantation for it, according to the authoress, was a native American version of the Lord’s Prayer. (Translated into English, of course. We can go only so far.) My English is good, and it didn’t take me long to figure out this was actually a noble-savage version of Psalm 23; fairly hard to confuse with the Lord’s Prayer if you knew dick about either. I have my doubts about the expertise of the writer. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/48 "2006-05-13T11:01:51Z")
[QUOTE=sleeping mud] Don’t most libraries carry books of spells? Has anyone told her that? [/QUOTE] Great. Now she’ll want to ban the dictionaries. > [@Malacandra](#): > > My English is good, and it didn’t take me long to figure out this was actually a noble-savage version of Psalm 23; fairly hard to confuse with the Lord’s Prayer if you knew dick about either. I have my doubts about the expertise of the writer. Don’t you know that all religions are just different paths to the One True God? It’s merely the ignorance and pigheadedness of others that keeps them from admitting it and worshipping the Big Guy the way He really likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/49 "2006-05-13T17:51:44Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] Great. Now she’ll want to ban the dictionaries. [/QUOTE] The libraries, more like. Once we’ve burned all the books, we have no need for the buildings that used to contain them, so we might as well burn those too. Nobody needs more than their Bible, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/50 "2006-05-13T20:07:38Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] We Are Satan’s _People_. Man, the level of education on this board scares the shit out of me. [/QUOTE] Naw, “pawns” works better, because then you can sing it to the tune of “We are Family.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/51 "2006-05-13T20:10:27Z")
“Wearing those demonic long johns!” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/52 "2006-05-14T18:15:38Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] The libraries, more like. Once we’ve burned all the books, we have no need for the buildings that used to contain them, so we might as well burn those too. Nobody needs more than their Bible, anyway. [/QUOTE] The books either contain what is already in the Bible, in which case they are superfluous, or they contradict what is in the Bible, in which case they are blasphemous. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/53 "2006-05-14T21:23:08Z")
[QUOTE=Zoe] You have researched all denominations and sects? [/quote] Got some others? That would be cool. I was quite proud when I read that the official Reformed Jewish Bible commentary got revised in this way. Anyhow, it is not like this data is very old. When I went to Hebrew School there was no reason to doubt the Bible story of the Empire, as far as I know. To tell you the truth, I don’t know what Unitarians believe, but I didn’t want to make this Jewish-centric. > [@](#): > > I think your assumptions are a kind of belief system. _No matter how sure you are of something, you need to look it up to be certain._ (None of us live up to that.) But a tested one. When I don’t look it up, I’m often wrong. Anyhow, if it is good enough for the New Yorker, it is good enough for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/54 "2006-05-15T03:48:33Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] Weird. The Narnia books also include evil themes, witchcraft (including “good magic” practiced by the juvenile heroes and heroines), demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, and spells. [/QUOTE] I’m not much of a Biblical scholar, but wouldn’t the Bible also include this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/55 "2006-05-15T08:24:16Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Naw, “pawns” works better, because then you can sing it to the tune of “We are Family.” [/QUOTE] What, like: - We! Are! Satan’s! Pawns! We all love the guy with the horns\* ? ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/56 "2006-05-15T11:16:43Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] What, like: - We! Are! Satan’s! Pawns! We all love the guy with the horns\* ? [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/57 "2006-05-15T12:28:25Z")
I could have sworn I read a follow up to this nutjob’s case and how the Head Librarian wrote a letter that was very nicely done stating they were allowing Potter back on the shelf. Thought I saw it about a week ago. People like her get their 15 minutes of fame so as to teach the rest of us how to think for ourselves. I feel for her kids. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/58 "2006-05-15T12:31:32Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > The libraries, more like. Once we’ve burned all the books, we have no need for the buildings that used to contain them, so we might as well burn those too. Nobody needs more than their Bible, anyway. Isn’t this the background to _A Canticle For Leibowitz_? And now I think about it, wasn’t there a Library in Alexandria until the local fanatics showed up with pitchforks and burning torches sometime in the late fourth century AD? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/59 "2006-05-15T14:32:10Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] Isn’t this the background to _A Canticle For Leibowitz_? And now I think about it, wasn’t there a Library in Alexandria until the local fanatics showed up with pitchforks and burning torches sometime in the late fourth century AD? [/QUOTE] I seem to recall a nuclear war (“the Flame Deluge”) set the stage for _A Canticle for Leibowitz_. As far as the Library of Alexandria, [accounts differ.](http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=9) ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366/60 "2006-05-16T02:16:14Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] I seem to recall a nuclear war (“the Flame Deluge”) set the stage for _A Canticle for Leibowitz_. As far as the Library of Alexandria, [accounts differ.](http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=9) [/QUOTE] I was referring to “The Simplification” in _A Canticle For Leibowitz_- _after_ the Nuclear War, the Survivors turn on the learned, and kill them (martyring Leibowitz in the process), and then destroy every book and library they can get their hands on- which turns out to be most of them, certainly in the Southwestern USA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-burning-georgia-style/356366.md?page=4)