Books You Want Horribly Destroyed.

[dalek sec]

"The Pearl" by whoever the bloody hell wrote that story. Gods I and then my sister had to suffer reading that piece of crap in middle school. Throw that damn book into the sea like that bloody pearl at the end of the story.

 

[Pegghead]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

Humans have been cooking up excuses to kill each other since time began, religion is just another one of those interchangable excuses. Going to war to prove which book on morality and justice should be upheld...great move.

In fact that goes to all people going "THE BIBLE HERP DERP HERP" and any other books central to a religion, do you really think you're going to get some kind of prize for taking cheap shots at groups, creeds and gods that are grounded in the human story? But no sense trying to argue with you people, you refuse to believe anything but because I'm a Catholic I instantly hate the LGBT community, other religions and would start a war at the drop of a hat if I'm not busy lecturing someone about the way they should live the life that's in their hand. That I'm instantly okay, and indeed, proud of what horrible, blind acts people have commited in the name of religion (This is especially stupid, I mean if you come from the states are you going to praise the fact that you once had slaves and slaughtered the natives?).

OT: Two books that I read at a young age, "The web" and 'Ex-spelled". Don't get me wrong I absolutely love reading (I'm currently stuck into both Jurassic Park and the first in the Flashman series) and the burning of books is a truly despicable act in my eyes (No matter what the source material may be, the destruction of information and creativity is something I do not uphold) but these books are just so...awful. Awful characters, awful plots, they're like the literature equivalent of eating deep fried chicken shit.

Sorry to get all ragey in the first two paragraphs, I just knew coming into this thread people were going to post unjustifiable nonsense like that. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off yell at Protestants and picket the funeral of a soldier.

 

[Panda Mania]

Any book based on a movie franchise. Those....things with their pretentious cinematic covers can burn in hell...

I want to say the Bible... but the bible saved me once when a free mini-bibe I got at school came in handy as fuel for a fire on a cold camp night.

Yet another piece of 'non-fiction' that I'd like to see have a massive-ass bibliography in the back just to explain how they got to their conclusions. Course, it'd probably look something like this:

Works Cited:

1. God

Yeah, that's exactly what it'd look like. >.> Actually, what annoys me is when my fellow Christians are all like, "How do we know the Bible is true?" and then they go and quote BIBLE verses as 'evidence.' Self-verification...really, guys? Try getting by with that in any English class.

 

[Christopher Dudgeon]

Anything by Dan Brown he can't write a book to save his life and the Twilight series

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

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Anti-religious bullshit incoming! Take cover!​

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Anyway, now that that mandatory thingy-majigger is over, I'm going to go for the exact opposite of what I just warned about. I think that Richard Dawkins' The God Dilemma needs to get burned. Why? Because I'm allowed to believe what I want, and having a book calling me a dumbass isn't going to change my mind.
Is it really so wrong that I believe in something rather primitive? No sir, no it is not. It may be primitive, silly, all around unlikely, but you know what? It makes me happy. So I reserve the right to believe that there is an invisible man in the sky.

Edit: It's actually called The God Delusion. I apologize to any fans, readers, or devout worshipers of this piece of literature that I may have offended.

I agree on the right to believe in whatever. However, you note Christianity as primitive. Not trying to be a dick at all, just ranting on a point.
Believing in a religion is more than superstition. Superstition is primitive because it is created by one's own imagination rather than genuine thought, and can be disproven.
Nobody has disproven whether there is a god or not, whether there is a soul or not. And a lot of philosophical and logical process goes into apalogetics(defending the validity of the religion). My best example is that psionics fit in with quantum theory, but psionics(the ability of the mind to interact with quantum fields, possibly because the mind is a quantum field) are neither matter nor matter-based energy that can be measured. Yet it affects matter and energy. Is this what the soul is made of? Psionics? A conscious essence that is somehow neither matter nor traditional energy, but influences both?
Whether this is true or not is yet to be found, but is it not a valid science? Therefore not primitive. Admittedly, there are "primitive" christians, but I believe psionics make the soul, and therefore the supernatural, possible as quantum entities.

damn interesting post, good stuff sir, i'd give you a cookie but im too lazy to get one =P

 

[katsumoto03]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

No. The world would be a lot more peaceful without people using religion as an excuse to hate.

 

[The Clinger]

None of them. It's really upset me that this thread contains cretins willing to go along with this. Hopefully they are 12 and will outgrow this shit.

Oh yes great moral one. Thank you for pointing out my evil ways.

 

[Epilepsy]

I want to say something deep, witty and intelligent, but i just can't go past twilight.
I may look like i'm jumping on the bandwagon here, but i had the misfortune of inflicting the first book upon myself, and have not read a fiction novel since.

If any book has ever needed to be erased from history, it is this.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

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Anti-religious bullshit incoming! Take cover!​

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Anyway, now that that mandatory thingy-majigger is over, I'm going to go for the exact opposite of what I just warned about. I think that Richard Dawkins' The God Dilemma needs to get burned. Why? Because I'm allowed to believe what I want, and having a book calling me a dumbass isn't going to change my mind.
Is it really so wrong that I believe in something rather primitive? No sir, no it is not. It may be primitive, silly, all around unlikely, but you know what? It makes me happy. So I reserve the right to believe that there is an invisible man in the sky.

Edit: It's actually called The God Delusion. I apologize to any fans, readers, or devout worshipers of this piece of literature that I may have offended.

Wow, your so original in your thinly veiled bashing of Dawkins as anyone else.. *eyerolls*

Delusion was a title hook for the book. Why not read it for once, instead of copying all the negative responses on Amazon under it for bandwagon effect, eh?

You fully have the right to be happy and content, no one is telling you differently. As long as you maintain you are wanting to be happy and content for the right reasons, rather than simply believing for the sake of believing.

 

[twaddle]

the bloody twilight saga


and zane books. nothing but smut

 

[Kris015]

Cathcer in the Rye, that book sucked like hell.

NO WAI.

Seriously, I loved that book. I felt like I was in that guy's head.

Than your a phony, LOL

Kill the phonies!

Seriously though i wouldn't ever want to burn any book.

EDIT: Oh wait, now that i think about it there is one book i'd burn: Dianetics by L Ron Hubbard. I'd have people going Christian extremely Christian than converting to Scientology. At least the christian church doesn't charge that much.

 

[sgt. soap mctavish]

the twilight series and anything with justin beiber on it (basically teen magazines

 

[2fish]

I have two answers, first is my gut response.

"but he who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself"
-John Milton

But the part of me that knows this is a joke type thread says to burn all the legal books. Burn all the rule books!

 

[LaBambaMan]

"The Stranger" by Albert Camus.

Why? It's just terrible. The writing is terrible, the main protagonist is a boring static blob who shows no emotion and you simply can't connect with. I get that the whole book is existentialist bullshit, but that isn't an excuse for it to be as terrible as it is.

 

[Talshere]

None there is no point in burning books just because you dont like them.

The only real serious reason NOT to burn twilight would be to serve as a lesson on how NOT to write. Which tbh, isn't needed. Its not often you get trash on that level, we dont NEED it to exist. All it does is taint us.

If we wipe ourselves out, and in one million years time some new race digs up a library, and the only text left is twilight, I for one am disowning humanity.

 

[Blatherscythe]

The First Testament, scary stuff in that bible. With all the books they burned back then, how did that one avoid the pile? Seriously, that book orders you to kill people differant from you or people who try to convert you to their faith, it promotes sexism, hatred and violence. And man is god an asshole in that one.

 

[ANImaniac89]

the "official" sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula the Un-dead

 

[RedDeadFred]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

Humans have been cooking up excuses to kill each other since time began, religion is just another one of those interchangable excuses. Going to war to prove which book on morality and justice should be upheld...great move.

In fact that goes to all people going "THE BIBLE HERP DERP HERP" and any other books central to a religion, do you really think you're going to get some kind of prize for taking cheap shots at groups, creeds and gods that are grounded in the human story? But no sense trying to argue with you people, you refuse to believe anything but because I'm a Catholic I instantly hate the LGBT community, other religions and would start a war at the drop of a hat if I'm not busy lecturing someone about the way they should live the life that's in their hand. That I'm instantly okay, and indeed, proud of what horrible, blind acts people have commited in the name of religion (This is especially stupid, I mean if you come from the states are you going to praise the fact that you once had slaves and slaughtered the natives?).

OT: Two books that I read at a young age, "The web" and 'Ex-spelled". Don't get me wrong I absolutely love reading (I'm currently stuck into both Jurassic Park and the first in the Flashman series) and the burning of books is a truly despicable act in my eyes (No matter what the source material may be, the destruction of information and creativity is something I do not uphold) but these books are just so...awful. Awful characters, awful plots, they're like the literature equivalent of eating deep fried chicken shit.

Sorry to get all ragey in the first two paragraphs, I just knew coming into this thread people were going to post unjustifiable nonsense like that. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off yell at Protestants and picket the funeral of a soldier.

The war on terror is the big war being fought now (as I'm sure you know). These terrorists believe that by killing themselves and has many "infidels" while they die, they will be rewarded in the after life. If religion didn't exist I guarantee modern day war would be almost non-existent (minus the few freaks who just want to see the world burn). Don't say people would just find something else to fight over. That is not true. Mutually assured destruction means that people would not attack each other because everyone would end up dead. This is why the Cold War did not become WWIII. The main people going to war are the people who want to die and believe they will be rewarded for doing so. SO maybe it's not christians who are killing other races in blood baths but war will always exist if religion exists.

So I'd say my statement is perfectly justifiable.

 

[captainwillies]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

Buddhist a peaceful

 

[RedDeadFred]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

No. The world would be a lot more peaceful without people using religion as an excuse to hate.

Modern day terrorist aren't using it as an excuse to hate. They truly believe they need to kill as many people as possible so that they can be rewarded in the after life. Although, there are a lot of people who just use it as an excuse.