Book Burnings are known to happen from time to time over the course of history. Reason go from trying to erase an entire culture to just not believing in the writings. But, if someone told a group of people to jump off an airplane without a chute they wouldn’t, because they know they shouldn’t and there will be consequences. The seemingly non harmful action of destroying the writing of someone else affects us in more ways than we can count. Mass book burnings are due to the ignorance of citizens mandated by dictators with motives to rewrite history.
In 1996, reactions from John Lennon’s out-of-context quote about The Beatles being more popular than Jesus, made communities across the Bible Belt burn records and other Beatles merchandise.
In 1996, reactions from John Lennon’s out-of-context quote about The Beatles being more popular than Jesus, made communities across the Bible Belt burn records and other Beatles merchandise.