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Florida church sponsors "International Burn A Koran Day"
The Dove World Outreach Center, a non-denominational church in Gainesville FL, is planning to mark this year's anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with a little bonfire of Korans, the holy book of Islam. They even have a Facebook page with a mission statement to justify their actions.
More, including a video of one of them ranting and burning a Koran, here.
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Permalink Reply by Grace Fitzpatrick on -
Another bunch of religious crazies. *rolleyes*
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Permalink Reply by Hassan Faramarz on -
The man in the video is as irrational as the Muslim leaders are. By defending one reasonless faith – Christianity – against another reasonless faith – Islam – he is not doing anything positive. Is he?
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Permalink Reply by Tom Thompson on -
If I was local I'd show up to contribute to the cause by tossing some Bibles in :)
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Permalink Reply by Dave Rogers on -
I'll bring the marshmallows.
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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on -
This reminds me of a memorable line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
Prof. Henry Jones: It [his diary with the secrets of the Grail] tells me, that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!
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Permalink Reply by Lorryslorrys on -
I think the Christians in question have exercised their second amendment rights enough to neither need your or their god's support.
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Permalink Reply by Mr. Clare Dotson on -
Book burning, that seems to be the answer for these Christian fanatics, just like the Apostle Paul incited on Mars hill, lets go burn some books and burnt all the books of ancient knowledge. What a waste, and even the Nazis did the same thing, seems to me that religious nuts love to keep mankind bound in the chains of ignorance. Burning the Koran isn't going to stop a thing. You can not kill a concept or an idea or a superstition that is only written down in a book, you have to change it with education and common sense and reasoning, and a good psychological cleansing and evaluation.
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Permalink Reply by Mr. Clare Dotson on
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If they are going to burn the Koran then they should burn their bibles too, after all the Koran is just a duplicate of the bible only with more BS added for good measure.
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Permalink Reply by Lorryslorrys on
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That's not really true. But you're right that it's Bullshit and I suppose a similar genre of Bullshit. They can burn their Bibles if they want I suppose. It occurs to me that if they want to be safe they should have written a longer holy book: http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-English-Dictionary-Vols-1-20/dp/019861... this sort of length. And unlike the Bible it's certainly a book I recommend you Americans read (just messin').
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Permalink Reply by Alixanderia Egbert on -
I've stated this about eighty million times. I feel that these people are intolerant, racist, and hateful -- all of the things Christians are supposed to be against. But, as much as I wish they would all just shut up and get along, I can't force them not to do something with their own property. These people have a right to do with their property as they please, and burning it is within those rights. I have a right to protest it, but I don't have a right to stop them. It's just all around stupid. I'd love to burn a bible on video and put it on the web, but, I'm a lot nicer than those people are. I won't stoop to that level.
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Permalink Reply by Jonny Marko on -
What I cant figure out is how this book burning thing accomplishes ANYTHING at all, even from a religious point of view. It seems like the only reason could possibly be out of hatred and frustration.
I really should stop trying to rationalize the zany antics of these religious folks. I actually think this whole story is a good thing, simply because... The more religious crazies are in the spotlight, the more people will start to catch on that religion is pretty crazy all around.
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