> Last night, Mt. Juliet pastor and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Greg Locke decided to turn it up a notch by organizing an old-fashioned book burning.
> In a sermon preceding the bonfire, Locke described beefing with "Free Mason devils" and said "I ain't gonna be 'suiciding myself' no time soon." Locke also said people aren't mad that they were burning books, but mad because of the books they were burning — implying that his critics, even other pastors, were devil and witchcraft supporters.
> You can see the footage in Locke's Facebook video of the event — the burning starts about an hour in.
From the OP. This was actually an old-fashioned book burning...
This misses the crucial question: Whose books were burnt?
If this guy bought a copy of Harry Potter and then burned it, that's just a somewhat over-the-top way of saying he doesn't like the book. Which is an opinion he's completely free to have.
The problem with book burning comes when people (or the state) burns books owned by people who don't want them burned.
> In a sermon preceding the bonfire, Locke described beefing with "Free Mason devils" and said "I ain't gonna be 'suiciding myself' no time soon." Locke also said people aren't mad that they were burning books, but mad because of the books they were burning — implying that his critics, even other pastors, were devil and witchcraft supporters.
> You can see the footage in Locke's Facebook video of the event — the burning starts about an hour in.
From the OP. This was actually an old-fashioned book burning...