Burning books

Why do people burn books?

Here is a negative statement about the origins of the Bible.

Before the Bible was written god had been a women. Some say she was called Lilleth and her emblems were an apple, and a snake. In the Bible Lilleth is turned into the snake of the Garden of eden tempting Adam and Eve into eating an apple. Also Lilleth in the Bible is represented as being an Owl. The Bible is propaganda and has its own agenda and Lilleth was turned from being the mother god of the earth into satan. I am guessing now but maybe people worship images of the Owl as it represents a time of wisdom and a connection with the earth. A time before the destructive Biblical hegemony.

Now imagine from this statement that a new religion of Lilleth arose and replaced the Abrahamic religions. The Bible would be seen to be a threat to the new risen Lilleth religion so they would burn the Bible.

Burning books is a powerful message. Have you ever seen the film Fahrenheit 451? Its based on a novel by Ray Bradbury. The freedom to read and write and to learn is an immutable human right. Through the history of the written word, politicians and religious figures have burned books. One of the greatest pieces of vandalism was the burning of the great library at Alexandria. Burning a copy of a Bible may seem like a nothing event, or burning copies of many of the Gideon Bibles that gather dust in Hotel drawers may seem just an empty issue, but it would lead to other vandalism. Imagine if a friend of yours took all your books and CDs and put them on the fire, what would your reaction be?

Imagine tomorrow if all the Libraries and all the book shops and every place that the written word is placed just vanished. Then like a continuing virus all the music disappeared together with every work of art. Just imagine a world where every creative expression was simply wiped away until a void was left. Not one speck of human creativity left to be admired or hated. And on tomorrow you woke to find that every word that you had ever written or music that you had ever composed or every photo you had ever taken completely vanished.