Church plans Qur'an burning
 

Wow.

I knew we had nutters in this country, but this really shocks me.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/29/flo...day/index.html


Book burning in America? Have some sunk that far? What do they really expect to accomplish with this?



I hope the world recognizes that these people do not represent the culture of the United States. I, for one, did not spill my blood in a foreign country to support a culture of book burnings. I know that freedom of expression allows burning books, but it just seems so wrong, hateful, and ineffective.



p.s. One religion calling another religion "deceptive" :shifty:

Disgusting.

Almost as bad as burning the flag, and that practice has a lot of defenders.

Burning books ain't my thing (I collect them ;) ).

That said, it is freedom of expression. What would really disturb me would not be a few nuts burning books, but the government protecting THAT book out of being PC.

I don't think this go far enough, I think they need to burn all religious texts.

Only way to start to replace superstition with science and rational thought..

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Oh I agree, the Government should not take any stand on this. Just like the government should not take a stand on burning the flag.

I am just sorry that this "church" is so insecure about their own faith that the would need to stoop to the lowest level like this. They would be pitiful if I were not so angered about this.

What was the reaction of the major churches to the Danish cartoons?

At the very least I recall some of them saying that the problem was in fact... blasphemy. That fit well with the generalized Western reaction which was to not print the images the news story was about, then also bend over backwards to throw THOSE nuts a bone and claim that sensitivity trumps freedom of expression.

Not something I'd do (one holy book being pretty much the same as any other to me—If I really needed to start a fire badly and I had to burn books, I's start with the religious stuff ;) ), but it doesn't really get my knickers in a bunch.

This will go a long way in the Islamist's propaganda wars.:damn:
How dumb can one get...says the guy from a country that burnt books 75 years ago.....?

Children will play...

Burning holy books is a very reasonable things in cold witner nights when you are cold and could need a seat near a fire. No other type of book has brought more horror and injustice upon mankind, than holy books.

On this special event in question, there are two ways I think about it in detail.

The first is illustrated by this famous image of Huineng, 6th Chan patriarch, and those who are familiar with the context understand the relevance here:

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The other way to think on the matter, has something to do with this:

http://article.nationalreview.com/pr...AwNzljYjFiNDM=



Stop Islam now, while there still may be time. Since half a century the West delivers monumental advanced investements to islamic demands - but islam does not deliver anything in return, and does not answer on the same terms, but pushes for more special status for itself and minimising the rights of other cultures.

Do not tolerate what does not tolerate you in return, in the same way.
Do not give others those rights that these others want to withhold from you.
Insist on a principle of reciprocity. 50 years of one-sided advanced investement of ours while the other side only always points fingers at us, are more than just thin evidence that we have shown good will. Such hilarious ammount of good will even int he face of totalitarian intolerance could also be called - stupidity, or rejection of reality.

Well it would seem that the orginization has acheived its goal.

Even if not a single book is burned it has A:Gotten a mention in mainstream media and B:Got you guys talking about it.

Mission accomplished.

People who burn books usually end up burning people sometime in the future.

Note that the OP article of course interviews CAIR, an organization that is in fact connected to terrorism, and the Islamic Brotherhood.

They should at the very least wait until the dead of winter when the poor are having a hard time keeping warm. :yeah:

Thinking outside the box.. I like it.

Well this has got to be the worst idea I have read of this week.

It is funny though, this church will have to spend money getting copies of the book just so they can burn it.
Book burners of this ilk are a publishers dream.

Reminds me of the protesters in Postal 2 chanting "Save a tree, burn a book!"

People like this make it hard for me to be a Christian. I have absolutely no compunction about announcing to the world that I believe a miracle-working carpenter from Nazareth was the Son of God and died for our sins - that's easy, but then I turn around and see that these people are my fellow believers!? WTF?

Thanks for showing people the better side of our religion, guys. No, really. We'll win a ton of converts that way. I'm sure Jesus is smiling down on your intolerant asses right now. After all, Christianity's message is that you get to look down on non-Christians, right? Hey, as long as we're burning their books, why not don crosses and go slaughter their women and children in the name of God? Peace be with you. A-holes:stare:

What we should do is take all religious extremists we find, shove them all on an island and let them duke it out to find out who is right, the winners get a slice of pie and some .50 caliber aspirine. The whole even would be refereed by hardcore pacifists, as those ****ers wouldn't interfere. After the slaughter is done and the pacifists have either caught a stray bullet or starved to death the entire island could be turned into an actual throne of skulls for Khorne with fountains of blood beside it for tourist attraction and general atmosphere. then to plagiarize even more stuff there should allso be everburning bushes spelling out gods last words to his entire creation: "Sorry for the inconvenience".