I'm Catholic, not Muslim, but I can't think of a better response
Anyone else?
I'm Catholic, not Muslim, but I can't think of a better response
Anyone else?
If you really want to express solidarity with the Muslims you should probably go out and burn some US flags (or Americans).
The Koran is like the Book of Mormon in many ways, not least of which is in living up to Mark Twain's description of the latter... "Chloroform in print".
I'm Catholic Agnostic, go figure on the agnostic.I like that this Florida preacher isn't taking anymore threats. It's a shame the radical Muslim community are such bobbleheads that they will riot and blow up stuff rather than just say 'shame on you reverend, and move on'. So he does have a point, there is a certain barabarism in that community.Maybe I'll read it too...right after I finish reading the Bible (it's kind of like War and Peace for me, never been able to get past, 'so and so begat so and so, and so and so begat so and so, and so and so begat so and so....;
Not a Muslim.... wrote:
I'm Catholic, not Muslim, but I can't think of a better response
http://al-quran.info/default.aspx?x=y#&&sura=1&aya=1&trans=en-hilali-khan&show=both,quran-uthmani&ver=2.00Anyone else?
"I like that this Florida preacher isn't taking anymore threats. It's a shame the radical Muslim community are such bobbleheads that they will riot and blow up stuff rather than just say 'shame on you reverend, and move on'. So he does have a point, there is a certain barabarism in that community."
Yeah, it is too bad Muslims can't be as civilized as Christians, who sublimate their desire for revenge into fevered and eagerly anticipated imaginings of the tortures God will inflict on us scoffers for our impious regard for their Bible. It will be a giant step for Islam when they learn they can mask their cowardice as letting God reap his vengeance while they get to watch and laugh.
Brian wrote:
The Koran is like the Book of Mormon in many ways, not least of which is in living up to Mark Twain's description of the latter... "Chloroform in print".
Brian, maybe you can help me with this: I'm trying to think of a society with public book burnings that was nonetheless heading in the right direction. Any come to mind?
The Book of Mormon was actually plagiarism by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery of a work called "Manuscript Found"
Depends on your definition of "heading". I mean lots of places that are decent today used to do that stuff, although they had to spend some time in the wrong direction.
I was only being a little sarcastic ain my prior comment. The capacity for Christianity to be neutered by the power of secular equalist society (which, of course, it unwittingly helped to spawn) cannot be underestimated. Islam just doesn't have a latent egalitarian streak in it. I am not holding my breath. It is Christianities ultimate milquetoastiness that makes it so powerful.
Brian wrote:
Depends on your definition of "heading".
Places that generally haven't done that stuff for a long time that start doing them more.
Perhaps I'll read from that Heinrich Heine play, "Almansor" instead.
That sounds like a good idea. It'll probably be boring, but its worth it to protest, and I can always have a beer or two while reading.
"Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians -- whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord. And there will be no fear for them, nor shall they grieve" (Koran 2:62, 5:69, and many other verses).
I for one think we should burn all copies of the Qur'an, but only if we add all the Bibles and Torahs as well. Make it a nice and big campfire and save a few million lives over the years.
Catholics are the biggest joke. 99% can't quote anything out the bible as they just listen to a guy in a pointy hat speaking latin that they don't understand. In fact, if the ever did read it they would see they've been going counter to what it says for 2000 years. Infant baptism? Bowing to statues, paying for pentance (sic), purgatory, forbiding clergy to marry, confession to priest,... etc.
In fact, catholism had the crusades that the muslims still bring up. Thus, making them no better.
Catholicy killed true christians that wouldn't bow to the pope. Forbid owning a bible upon penalty of death.
Problem is, the world think that the catholic church speaks for the christian God.
yesweshould wrote:
I for one think we should burn all copies of the Qur'an, but only if we add all the Bibles and Torahs as well. Make it a nice and big campfire and save a few million lives over the years.
You are so right... once we have burned all the hard copies of religious texts we can find, they will no longer be accessible to the general public.
idiot.
You Say What? wrote:
Catholics are the biggest joke. 99% can't quote anything out the bible as they just listen to a guy in a pointy hat speaking latin that they don't understand. In fact, if the ever did read it they would see they've been going counter to what it says for 2000 years. Infant baptism? Bowing to statues, paying for pentance (sic), purgatory, forbiding clergy to marry, confession to priest,... etc.
In fact, catholism had the crusades that the muslims still bring up. Thus, making them no better.
Catholicy killed true christians that wouldn't bow to the pope. Forbid owning a bible upon penalty of death.
It's not 1900, or 1100 for that matter.
You Say What? wrote:
Catholics are the biggest joke. 99% can't quote anything out the bible as they just listen to a guy in a pointy hat speaking latin that they don't understand.
It might be good for you to learn a little about other faiths.
But I guess it's more fun to parrot what other ignorant people say. Have fun at the burning.
You're right- the problem really isn't the books, it's the cults surrounding those books. Many fewer people have ever actually READ those texts than have hated, hurt, or killed others in the name of them.
Still, the aim of my proposal (like that of the Qur'an burning) is symbolic.
I should add that I am very pro-Muslim with the recent idiocy surrounding the Burlington Coat Factory Mosque (and really everything post-9/11). I'm certainly with the OP on this one. But this issue is only current, and only local. Which religion is persecuted and which is doing the persecuting depends on where and when you live. But the real problem is religion itself.