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Have aProblem? Burn A Book! Some Thoughts on The Flames Of Control

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In 1844, over the course of several days, nativists in Philadelphia claiming that Catholics wanted the Bible out of the schools killed thirteen people and burned a Catholic Church to the ground...Rioting in dozens of cities in the 1840s and '50s could be connected to the fight over the Bible in the schools.

- Noah Feldman, Divided by God

Control. I won't bother to talk about Germany's conflagration in 1933. It was about control. I wonder where Hitler got the idea?

"Knowledge Is Power" And whoever controls knowledge has the ultimate power.

When Is Uganda hosting a bonfire? Ask Lou Engle, he'll know.

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