:eek: That was so so wrong of him. Just because you are older does not mean that you are right.
I second throwing his Bible out the window.
That would piss me the FUCK off.
Also, it’s stealing. Tell him, “Thou Shalt Not Steal.”
(TECHNICALLY!)
While I’ve never had a member of my family, or anyone for that matter, throw my books out of the window because they’re evil and may lead to rock and/or roll, there’s the potential. I have an Ignorant Uncle - every family has an Ignorant Family Member, but I’m lucky mine’s my uncle, and thus, doesn’t live with me or anywhere near me. I see him only about once a year, and that’s enough for me.
Ignorant Uncle saw me reading a book on evolution and asked me, in complete honesty, ‘you don’t really believe that crap, do you?’ This is the same uncle that asked me last year my opinion on inter-racial marriage, and when I indicated that it was fine with me, was shocked a bit. Same uncle who was caught surfing porn naked while his kids were playing outside his room. Oops, not quite the upstanding Christian soldier, are you? Bad Ignorant, Porn-Surfing Uncle.
He is fairly representative of the remainder of my family, with exceptions of my immediate family and everyone under the age of ten. Luckily, Mumsy is rather liberal - she’s one of the few members of my extended family who wouldn’t go into cardiac arrest and nail me to the wall with Bible pages glues to my eyes if I admitted that I wasn’t Christian. She already knows I’m a weird kid.
Okay, who’s been talking?
Yes, it does seem that the louder a fundy shouts about Jesus, the more likely it is that he will be caught pantless at some point.
Grandpa or no, throwing your book out the window is just plain wrong. How the hell is destruction of property a witness for Jesus? Then again, books to a fundamentalist are like garlic to a vampire.
Well, not all books.
No, Sagan died several years ago. You may be thinking of Steven Jay Gould, whose books are also on the “Most Likely to be Thrown Out of Speeding Vehicles by Fundies” list.
I can’t think of much else to add, but man, what a jerk. I admire your restraint, however. Elderly relative or not, nobody messes with my reading material.
OK, they like that one book with the black leather binding, but that’s about it.
Yeah, but they never really READ it-they just hit everyone over the head with it.
See, if they actually bothered to read the book, they’d realize they’re supposed to be loving, tolerant and treat other people as they would want to be treated.
Set a Bible on fire in front of them and explain through science and Ray Bradbury, you learned that books burn at 451 degrees farenheit.
You can always grab a copy of this and read it while he’s around. Tell him that he’s helped you see the light and and you have turned from science back to religion. 
Pfft. I’m aware of his work.
yeah, i can symapthise with this one… not only did I lose all my D&D rule books (you know, the old blue-and-red boxed sets, really rare nowadays), but she also threw out all my dragonlance chronicles, tales, legends, preludes etc, etc… I reckon over 200 GBP’s ($400-$500ish) worth of books, and that was just the purchase price - what some of the rarer ones would be worth now, I’ve no idea. It was years before I was able to start re-buying them…
Yeah, mine has more than a few. I guess one side living predominately in rural Oklahoma probably doesn’t help.
My grandfather is pretty much the worst – or at least, most vocal – of the bunch. He said that Bill Clinton was more evil than Hitler. In another conversation, he recalled a black man and a white woman walking down the street with great disgust (“hang 'em both”). He goes on and on about “Oriental” drivers. Yuck. (On a side note, he also thinks that the CIA and its black helicopters are itching to storm in and take his guns away, and he has a framed picture of Charlton Heston carrying a rifle above the dining-room table. He also thinks that the Internet is one of the Devil’s works.)
It’s been a major issue that I won’t go to church – especially not their freaky, ultra-conservative church (sermons include Divorce is Evil, Liberals are Going Straight to Hell, etc.).
My mom won’t tell him that her boyfriend is a Jew.
Dr. Gould is also defunct, so he won’t be getting any financial reward from your purchase of his work.
It amazes me that fundies reject evolution, a process that has been demonstrated to be the unifying thread of all biology, but they believe that the ludicrously bad “Left Behind” books are news reports from the future.
It’s a thinly veiled attempt to lure Uekte’s latest sock out of hiding, isn’t it?
Sorry to hear about your book though, that sort of behaviour sucks.
ABORT THE PLAN, I REPEAT ABORT THE PLAN
Ok, we’ll meet and regroup later over a bottle of cuervo. Redhead domination WILL happen.
I would try never speaking to either of them again. But that’s me.
Where’s the fun in THAT, spooje?
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Hmm. I remember back in my larval stage, before I became the self-confident swag that needs Apos to bail him out. In class, I suffered the depridations of a bully until he took my book, in which instance I physically assaulted him with a large T-square. I got in minor trouble, but also got my book back. This approach is not recommended with family members. I recommend you head over to the Internet Infidels and print out some of the more reprehensible bible quotes, and read them aloud during your next car trip.