So some yahoo pastor, Terry Jones by name, out of Florida, gets the hairbrained scheme to go to Afghanistan to burn the Quran, their (the Muslim) version of the bible. And of course there's backlash and about 9-11 people have been killed over it, the number has been fluctuating. He could argue that if they were truly "god fearing" they would not kill anyone. But he certainly set some wheels in motion, in my mind, for someone to do something heinous. All in the name of religion.
Let me clue you in, Pastor Jones...those people have religion! It may not be your religion, but it is religion, and they're entitled to believe what they think. And the truly religious do NOT believe in violence, just the yahoos.
If you read any religious book you can say that some sort of violence is prescribed. An "eye for an eye", for example. And if you think "christians" are not violent, look no further than the Crusades.
So why oh why did you choose to go to Afghanistan to do this? Who paid for the trip? Your hard-working parishioners? If I were part of your church, and knew my tithing paid for that trip, I would have you excommunicated, or whatever it is they could do in your religion.
If you want to "do the right thing" read the 10 commandments. I think all the religion a person needs is right there, not in a book that has been written and rewritten over thousands of years. Quoted and misquoted to serve the narrator's purposes.
I had a wise priest once say to the congregation that all religions follow the same God, be you Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Taoist, etc. "He's" all the same person. And I'm sure He would not condone burning any of His books, however written, whenever written, and the awful aftermath, on this Day 117!
Let me clue you in, Pastor Jones...those people have religion! It may not be your religion, but it is religion, and they're entitled to believe what they think. And the truly religious do NOT believe in violence, just the yahoos.
If you read any religious book you can say that some sort of violence is prescribed. An "eye for an eye", for example. And if you think "christians" are not violent, look no further than the Crusades.
So why oh why did you choose to go to Afghanistan to do this? Who paid for the trip? Your hard-working parishioners? If I were part of your church, and knew my tithing paid for that trip, I would have you excommunicated, or whatever it is they could do in your religion.
If you want to "do the right thing" read the 10 commandments. I think all the religion a person needs is right there, not in a book that has been written and rewritten over thousands of years. Quoted and misquoted to serve the narrator's purposes.
I had a wise priest once say to the congregation that all religions follow the same God, be you Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Taoist, etc. "He's" all the same person. And I'm sure He would not condone burning any of His books, however written, whenever written, and the awful aftermath, on this Day 117!
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