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A Tennessee church leader who fears “witchcraft” has befallen his church claimed that God “directed” him to lead a book burning event to rid the world of “Harry Potter,” “Twilight” and other such best selling fantasy books.
He also invited them to destroy “tarot cards, Ouija boards, healing crystals, idol statues, spell books and everything else tied to the occult.”
Pastor Greg Locke of the Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, near Nashville, began his sermon on Wednesday night with an announcement that he’d received a missive from God — to skip Holy Communion on that particular evening and instead hold a book-burning event for his followers.
During the event, a married couple who were part of the counter protest across the way tossed a bible into the fire and declared the husband was saving Darwin's Origin of the Species and Fahrenheit 451 as he held them up to the crowd.
The counter-protest across the park featured the song Highway To Hell while showing Harry Potter movies on a big screen.