Fla. church organizing burning of Quran

yeh that pretty much makes me sick, the people that have decided to do this are idiots, thats not an attack on christians but just on the church that is doing this btw, im not religious but i really do get sick fed up with these religious nuts that do these crazy things, spreading more hate is what there doing

 

You would naturally assume that we have, as people changed for the better over time....Obviously not.

That anyone today would still burn books is beyond reason.

 

Especially if they're done dirt cheap

And one of the worst signs of pure, unadulterated ignorance.


I'm always still surprised when people do this. I'm not surprised however to see that most every time it is done by fundamentalist christians.

 

Is it really a book-burning in principle? Book-burnings are usually the attempt to remove a book from use. This appears more to be a symbolic act of rejection of islam which this small group believes to be a threat to freedom.

 

Call it what you'd like. It's a book burning. They don't like the book or what it says and they think it's wrong.

 

And that's pure, unadulterated ignorance?

 

Yep. Books represent knowledge. The passing down of ideas throughout the generations of man. To burn this is to show an ignorant misunderstaning of an idea. Keep in mind an idea is merely just a thought. What does that tell you? "Your thoughts are wrong, mine are better."

 

So. Mein Kampff is a good book, deserving of respect?

 

Yes it is. It gives us a clearer picture of who Adolf Hitler was. What's wrong with that? His message may have been "wrong". That doesn't mean we shouldn't get to know him and his thoughts through his writing.


Many people didn't like Walt Whitman because he may have been gay. But I'd hate to imagine the world of poetry without his writing. His writing is beautiful and extremely progressive for that time.

 

Even though the Nazi movement reveres it as their blueprint?

 

Yes. No one can judge the way one interprets a book or piece of art.


What do you say about those folks who kill people and say god told them to do it?

 

So. if you saw a group of Jews burning copies of Mein Kampff you would call them pure, unadulterated ignorants?

 

I'd say they're either lying or they were hallucinating or God actually did tell them to do it. I'd be inclined to believe the first most strongly, the second less so and the third very much less so. But each is possible.

 

Absolutely. I wouldn't be swayed by nostalgia. Ignorance is ignorace, no matter what it thinks it is trying to prove.

You think god wants his children to kill each other?

 

Any reaction to quran burning is as ignorant as the burning itself.

 

The old testament says He does. He instructed the jews to wipe out every man, woman and child from the land that was intended for them. Which they did for awhile. But then they started sparing some of the women to take for themselves and before too long they're defeated and scattered, no longer backed by the Big Guy.

 

http://blog.adw.org/2010/09/burning-the-quran-is-a-bad-idea-and-a-sin/

The planned event is a sin (on many levels). An interesting viewpoint.

 

How about if they hold up a 10x12 colour photograph of the Koran and burn that?

 

Yeah, us Christians, golly gee! We don't have any extreamists! I guess that fella J. Jones out of Jonestown Guyana was just trying to help his folks....? Oh, and what's that fella's name out of Kansas that says "God Hates Faghs" and he protests at military funerals?

But what about the "The Sons of Freedom", a sect of Doukhobor anarchists?
And the "National Liberation Front of Tripura", a rebel group operating in Tripura, North-East India?

Then there's the "National Socialist Council of Nagaland" (NSCN) and continues today with its faction NSCN - Isaac Muivah which explicitly calls for a "Nagalim for Christ."

Or the "Irish Republican Army"?

Have you heard of "The Orange Volunteers"? They're infamous for carrying out simultaneous terrorist attacks on Catholic churches.

And the "Iron Guard" and "Lăncieri" of Romania? Who are responsible for involvement in the Holocaust, Bucharest pogrom, and political murders during the 1930s....

The "Russian National Unity" is there as well. A far right ultra-nationalist political party and paramilitary organization that has been accused of murders, and several terrorist attacks including the bombing of the US Consulate in Ekaterinburg.

"The Lord's Resistance Army", a cult guerrilla army in Uganada, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves. Their leader is Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the Christian Holy Spirit which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations.
AND "LRA fighters" are known to wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle....

And then here, stateside, not to mention the old coot in Kansas that hates faghs and soldiers (the same soldiers that gave their lives so he can spew out his hatred like toxic vomit)....
You have the "KKK"! Yep, they're Christian too, didn't ya know that> Uh huh. Back in the days when the "Ku Klux Klan" was burning, beating, cross burning, destroying property, lynching, murdering, raping, tar-and-feathering, and whipping against African Americans, Jews, Catholics and other social or ethnic minorities. How loving.

Then we also have the "Army of God", who has been killing people in order to save people(?).
Wait a minute here. Taking the lives of others....so others could live....? Heck, maybe if they didn't kill people a lot more folks would be alive today? I dunno.

And not to forget "Christian Identity", the "Lambs of Christ", or "Concerned Christians" (who were deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999, believing that their deaths would "lead them to heaven."

And there are groups that fall under Christian Radicals, though I'm not sure how Christian they really are. I call them "ultra-extreamists". Groups like the "Aryan Nations", "Aryan Republican Army", "Holy Order of the Phinehas Priesthood", "The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord".

Ok, so I cannot effectively name all the radicals that proliferate in Christianity, but you will find them in all cultures, politics and religions.

 

so you agree with me, but made it sound like you didnt? lol