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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreg Locke, a supposed "minister" burned books.
There's an old saying, "Where they burn books, soon they burn people."
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)patphil
(6,179 posts)They would introduce themselves as the book's title. I'm "To Kill a Mockingbird", or I'm Slaughterhouse Five".
And they would speak the book, and teach others to be the book.
keithbvadu2
(36,813 posts)Think of the African griot who knew the village's history for a few hundred years back.
patphil
(6,179 posts)The group's shaman would relate the verbal history of the tribe as they sat around the campfire.
In the Americas, Europeans would kill all the shamans to destroy the indigenous people's link to their past. It helped reinforce the false claim that they were savages.
The real savages came from Europe.
keithbvadu2
(36,813 posts)Alex Haley (Roots) found his ancestor through a griot.
Great movie/semi-documentary.
orwell
(7,773 posts)...it burns!
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)who had been the wife's "best friend." What a fraud all the way around.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.christianpost.com/amp/popular-internet-pastor-greg-locke-marries-church-assistant-after-divorce.html
"After months of denying they were in an intimate relationship before his recent divorce, Greg Locke, the outspoken internet preacher and lead pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, has married his administrative assistant and ex-wife's best friend, Tai Cowan McGee.
Pulpit and Pen first cited a copy of the newlywed's marriage certificate filed in Wilson County, showing that Locke, 42, and McGee who also recently went through a divorce, were married on Tuesday by Global Vision Bible Church's Executive Pastor Jarrod Almond. The marriage came after Locke legally divorced his ex-wife Melissa, whom he said he "loved for 21 years."...(more)