Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Pentecostal Pastor Plans On Publicly Burning Qurans in Bon Fire

http://home.myhughesnet.com/news/read.php?ps=1018&rip_id=%3CD9I38FCG0%40news.ap.org%3E&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCLM_UNEWS&page=1 While I'd rather he not use such an incendiary act; I recognise this man's inherent right to do this. It's not much different from people openly burning a flag; or from Marilyn Manson burning a Bible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCPSnaf3XSg But yet it is also as counterproductively futile as the bishops burning Tyndale's translation of the Bible. The money spent for books to burn will only go to print even more of them! But I am still glad to be living in a free country, where people may get away with blaspheming other's religion. Though I also remember with caution the words of Heinrich Heine, whom stated that where people burn books they will later burn people. http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/burning/burning.html

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