*Conservative Pastor Holds Actual Book Burning In Tennessee*
/Farron Balanced/
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"A pro-Trump conservative pastor in Tennessee named Greg Locke held an
actual book burning this week, where parents were encouraged to throw
young adult novels into the flames. It didn't take long to go from book
bannings to book burnings, and the fact that anyone would
enthusiastically participate in this event should send shivers down all
of our spines. Farron Cousins explains what's happening."

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"Well, it certainly hasn't taken long for Republicans to go from let's
band books to let's burn books. And this week in Tennessee, pro Trump
conspiracy theory, love, and pastor Greg Locke actually held a book
burning. There was an actual book earning put forth by a Republican, a
conservative, a pro-Trump mega freak this week here in the United States
in the year 2022. A lot of the books that parents and other people
brought in were, you know, the traditional ones you'd expect Harry Potter
people burning their Harry Potter books because of, of witchcraft and
wizardry people burning the Twilight books, cuz it deals with
supernatural things like vampires and wear wolves, you know, works of
fiction and they burned them because they believe these books are
corrupting today's youth.

Let me read some of this from the Nashville's scene. Locke described
beefing with free Mason devils and said, I ain't gonna be subsiding
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 support
this individual. I, I, I, I don't even, I don't even know what to say. I,
I can't even, I can't wrap my head around that kind of level of just
utter insanity to say these things, to do these things. So the question I
have is it performative, you know, is, is pastor Locke doing this because
he knows it gets a rise out of his, out of his, uh, uh, congregation,
because it maybe gets him some headlines or is he doing it because he is
absolutely nuts. I, I don't know. I, I don't know, but raw story continue
here. Um, he forbade his supporters from wearing face masks in his church
as the COVID 19 pandemic flared up and even told a Duncan donuts employee
to try to make him wear a mask quote, I'm going to kick your teeth down
your throat. He also urged children to deliberately fail history classes
because they're part of a Islamic invasion.

So I don't know. Does that seem like somebody who's just doing this for,
for kicks, trying to make money or do those seem like the words and
actions of somebody who might have a couple of screw loose, uh, screws
loose upstairs. I'm gonna personally go with the ladder. Now you're free
to, to make up your own opinion about this individual. I certainly did,
but this isn't normal, especially by the way, a, a man of God, allegedly
a pastor

Telling a, a, a minimum wage worker. Who's asking him to protect others,
that I'm gonna kick your teeth down your throat. Hmm. I must have missed
that part of the Bible, but that's the point. None of these people are
religious. None of these people actually give it about what is being
taught in that Bible. If they did, they wouldn't be out there by books.
Like this was 1940s in Germany. They would be out there clothing, the
naked, feeding the hungry and healing, the sick that's, what's actually
in the Bible, at least the new Testament, but they don't wanna
acknowledge that. They want to use it, obscure it, misread it because it
makes them a ton of money when they pull idiotic stunts like this."

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Petz and his ilk will love this wonderful news!
If it was up to him and all those in hard-right politicians (in Family
First, LNP, ON, etc...etc..etc...) committed to varying degrees of
religious fundamentalism the book burnings and the rest of that horribly
scary crap would start today!

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