The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina grabbed headlines in mid-October when it announced a “Halloween Book Burning.” It was going to be anything but your typical book burning, assuming there is such a thing.

To be sure, they planned to burn heavy metal music and smutty movies. But they also had country, gospel, and Christian contemporary music and videos about Jesus in their crosshairs. Most shockingly, they said that they would burn all non-King James versions of the Bible — aka “Satan’s bibles.”

They also announced a long list of “Satan’s popular books written by heretics” which would be burned. And to top it all off, they offered “fried chicken, and all the sides.”

But when the big day came around, a combination of rain, protesters, a nd a state law against burning paper all conspired against them. Here’s what happened:

And here, in their own words, is what Amazing Grace said about their quote-unquote book burning: