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Originally Posted by Platapus
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Doesn't shock me in the least. I've seen church people do all sorts of crazy things.
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Book burning in America? Have some sunk that far? What do they really expect to accomplish with this?
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When it comes to religion, our society went somewhere over the coo-coo's nest awhile ago. What do they expect to accomplish? Affirmation of their belief's while concurrently sending a political and "patriotic" message.
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I hope the world recognizes that these people do not represent the culture of the United States.
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We're not all judeo christian evangelical fundamentalists, but there are a larger number who are. The rest of the world might be able to tell the difference, but the muslim world won't. To be fair, i cant tell the difference between muslims either. To me they're ALL whackjobs in my eyes, so im indifferent to our own judeo christian whackjobs burning the koran.
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. I know that freedom of expression allows burning books, but it just seems so wrong, hateful, and ineffective.
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You got the wrong and hateful part right.
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p.s. One religion calling another religion "deceptive" 
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Christianity as an organization has always done this in one form or another, thoughout history. To Judeo christian evangelicals, their god is the one true god, their religion the one true religion, and everyone else must be converted, and brought to see "the light and the way."
FYI, my two favorite bumper stickers on this subject are:
- "It's not God i Have a problem with, it's his fan club"
- "Jesus save me from your followers".
One of these days i may have the balls to put them on my truck, but i tend to keep my beleifs to myself, less I become what i despise.