NC Baptist church plans Halloween book burning. A North Carolina Baptist church plans to go ahead with a Halloween celebration that will center around the burning of bibles and other books, even though the event will be illegal. The Amazing Grace Baptist Church will be subject to a $25,000 fine for violating open burning laws, yet Pastor Marc Grizzard says the event will go forward.

The church, located in Canton, N.C., is a small. fledgling operation, with only 14 members. No doubt the Halloween book burning is a publicity stunt; apparently Pastor Grizzard wants to build a church. According to the church web site the book burning promises to be a good time.

Crazy. The donations are for burning! The whole thing is odd. Pastor Grizzard mainly wants to burn Bibles and religious commentary (although he seems willing to burn almost anything). Apparently any Bible that is not the King James version is unacceptable to Pastor Grizzard, as well as many mainstream Christian writers and commentators.