Books You Want Horribly Destroyed.

[SantoUno]

Did you watch Extra Credit's "Free Speech" video? That quote about destroying a book equals destroying an idea is so compelling and true. No book should be destroyed no matter what the subject.

But of course, the only exception to this quote for me is the Bible obviously.

Actually, both the Bible and the Koran should be destroyed.

 

[fenderstrat]

destroying books is a horrible horrible crime, regardless of their content. you just dont do it. unless you're a nazi

 

[Jfswift]

Great Expectations by Charlies Dickens. Please.. make it go away.

 

[Nalesnik]

I would burn EVERY SINGLE BOOK IN THE WHOLE WORLD! But secretly I would stash away as many as I could in a hidden, underground library, and become the most powerful man in the entire world! (Cause knowledge is power)

 

[Burningsok]

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.

Ummmm... Eclipse. It's easily the worst out of the Twilight saga...

Even though I believe in God, I found that absolutely hilarious!! XD
I'm not very religious; just saying.

 

[SantoUno]

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.

It may be obvious, but I still feel like pointing it out.

Clearly you haven't read the book or else you would know that it NEVER insults people who believe in religion, and neither does The End of Faith.

Seriously, do you really think any of these books related to atheism would be bestsellers if either of them openly insulted religious believers?

 

[Hristo Petrov]

Ah burning books we don't like truly the mature and reasonable thing to do. And why is it always burning books why isn't it burn a movie you don't like or a video game ?


But seriously Twilight needs to BURN

 

[Pegghead]

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

-Snip-

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.

In the early formations of mathematics philosophers executed a scholar who suggest that decimal numbers could be a possibility.

The driving force behind ww2 was eugenics, resource and territory struggle, not to mention the conflict of ideologies.

Martin Luther King was assasinated for speaking out against racial injustices.

Abraham Lincoln was assasinated for speaking out against slavery.

People will kill for any reason you could possibly name, and seeing how enormous religion is it's understandable that religion has been one of the many hot-topics on every idiots "Reasons to kill" list, because mindless destruuction is idiocy. Hate is idiocy too.

The Crusades were devastating but it's not as simple as a theological struggle, there were opportunists fuelling the effort, the fact that many trade routes belonging to the British were being ambushed in the area...

The modern war on terror is also not as simple, really nothing's as simple as it seems. There's the fact that, through past experiences and long-held misconceptions many Middle-Eastern countries view America as some kind of all evil force. The way to move forward in this, acceptance on both sides. More religious folk should learn that people are entitled to their own beliefs, those opposed to religion should learn exactly the same. It's not a question of continuing while another continues now, it's a question of who's going to be the bigger man.

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

I'm going to go back in time and do the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

And maybe the last 10 or so pages of Watchmen so Moore has to come up with something less asinine.

 

[necromanzer52]

The boy in the striped pyjamas.
I had to read this for english class and it's quite possibly the worst book I've ever read in my life.

 

[The Axon Hillock]

Ugh. This thread was a disaster last time someone wrote it...

I guess if I HAD to choose one (I'm opposed to book burning) it would be Eragon. Reading that was like having someone personally insult my intelligence with each page turn.

 

[Hatchet90]

Burning books in itself is wrong. No matter what the idea, no matter how radical, no book should ever be burned. Because there's always some artistic value in any book. The book in itself gives one a picture of the way an author sees the world and the way the world was at the time of the author's writing. This is a horrible topic. Atheism is a religion.

... To be funny Fahrenheit 451

 

[Jack and Calumon]

All the books that say the world is flat. There are a few out there, and people still believe it.

Calumon: Why burn them? If you place the right, You have a house!

 

[Harlemura]

Pride and Prejudice.
So it can't be forced down the throat of another entire English class that doesn't give a crap about it.

I tell a lie, it wasn't the entire class that hated it. Maybe two people liked it, at most.
That's still 28 people having to trudge through months of that junk.

 

[Anggul]

In any situation I would normally say that burning a book is ridiculous, and go take a look at Hitler.

But well... Twilight should be removed from all of time and space. Burning just isn't enough to atone for it's crimes. It should never have occurred.

 

[onewheeled]

... To be funny Fahrenheit 451

Spoiler

As much as I'm against burning books and their ideas, I'd go with Mythology by Edith Hamilton. It was a requirement for freshman year of high school, and it was by far the most dull, excruciatingly long, pointless book I've ever read.

 

[ANImaniac89]

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

I would like to take back what I have said, yes some book are stupid this is true but if you make it okay to destroy one book then you make it OK to destroy any book and despite what the so-called "Edgy" social rebels might say Religionists text are an important thing to the human mind. Even if you don't necessarily believe in God, most likely you still follow to some degree a base form of the morals they teach.

 

[Scout Tactical]

As I Lay Dying. The world doesn't need to know about the aquatic state of your mother, good sir.

 

[comet5002]

Seriously everyone who said the Bible? SERIOUSLY? Are we that immature and childish that we would say something like "let's burn the effin Bible durr hurr fart"

You're no better than the brilliant priest who decided that burning the Qur'an was a good idea.

It's also ironic that you all capitalized the word Bible, I must say.

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

This is honestly probably one of the most idiotic and ignorant things I've ever read in my entire life, and now I'm horribly frightened for the human race. You really think there wouldn't be conflict and war without religious TEXTS? First of all, as someone already said, religion can exist without texts depicting it. Second of all, if there wasn't religion, humanity would definitely find something else to shoot at each other for. Let's look at the Revolutionary War, hmm?

Sorry to go off topic, but these flame starters are asking for it. Religion is something that gives humanity something to hold onto and to have hope in. Sorry if I like to believe that life isn't a complete waste of time screwing people, wasting money, and getting drunk every week. Sorry if I like to believe that there's something waiting for me after I die instead of perpetual darkness for the rest of eternity.

I don't mean to be rude, I really don't, but really? It's ignorance like this that really ticks me off.

Back on topic, I don't think any book deserves to be burned. But I could certainly do without Twilight having ever existed.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

While I can't and won't advocate any sort of deliberate book burning.

I can't say I'd shed any tears if an electrical fire were to destroy an entire warehouse full of Glenn Beck books.

I don't know why there would be an entire warehouse dedicated to just his printed works but hey, this is my poorly thought out scenario.