Lord of the Rings

In 2001 a group of people gathered outside a church in the in town of Alamogordo, New Mexico and started a fire. They did not set fire to the church – this was not some sort of anti-religious arson attack – far from it. In fact, this group gathered to set light to a large pile of books that they deemed to be anti-Christian, satanic, and corrupting the minds of the youth by promoting witchcraft. All of these books in the pile that went up in smoke that day by one author J. R. R. Tolkien. Yep, they burned Lord of the Rings. Which is somewhat ironic as, if they had bothered to read it and comprehend what they were reading, they would soon have discovered that, for all its talk of wizards and magical creatures, it is one of the most Christianity influenced stories to have ever sat on a bookshelf.