Who's Up For A Good Old Fashioned Bible Burning?

[JFN1]

If it is good for Muslims, it should do wonders for Christians, don't 'ya think?

I'll bring the marshmallows...!

:evilgrin:

[demmiblue]

1. Not me. n/t

[ReggieVeggie]

2. me! me!

Let's have some fun.

[Fumesucker]

3. I can think of something better to mix with burning paper than marshmallows..

That Biblical rice paper is nice and thin.

:evilgrin:

[madmom]

4. bible pages make really good

papers for rolling...just saying:evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

20. I agree. Told to me from an undisclosed source. n/t

[freshwest]

5. It'll make the fundies abroad happy, proving Americans will burn any book! That'll show 'em!

And we'll close all the schools, throw the old folks out of the nursing home, kick the kids to the curb homeless and without food!

What a great example we're setting for the world...

[lynne]

6. As a Christian, let me just say -

- to go ahead and have your burning. I have great love and respect for the Bible but they're nothing but paper and ink and you burning it certainly doesn't impact me in any fashion.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. On one hand, I would love to. But on the other hand,

I don't think that any act by one idiot should change my opinion that it is wrong to desecrate a group's holy book, even if I see little value in it.

[Marrah_G]

8. You can burn any of my religious items and I won't get homocidal

I won't even throw a punch.

[blondeatlast]

10. I have a few milagros that I'll get cranky about but my heirloom Bible

was destroyed in a house fire many years ago and I can just run to B&N to get a new one.

The milagros won't burn anyhow. :shrug:

[Liquorice]

9. I'm against burning any book on principle. nt

[Edweird]

11. I'm down for it but don't leave out the Jews, Mormons or scientologists.

If it's worth doing - it's worth doing right.
Better throw in a koran just to make sure all
the bases are covered....

[FooshIt]

13. no not a Koran

please have some sense

[Edweird]

17. Eh. Ain't skeered.

[FooshIt]

37. how about just practicing some tolerance then?

[valerief]

12. Sure, I'm game. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. Yawnnnn... n/t

[Raine]

15. The reason I wouldn't is because personally I couldn't

destroy something that has meaning to others whether it be the bible, the koran or a comic book. I find it just plain wrong and cruel. :-(

[Obamanaut]

18. If it is a copy recently purchased from, say Walmart, it is just a recently

purchased item that has no meaning to anyone. It is just a book.

[Raine]

28. Lol, good point!

:hi:

[Bluerthanblue]

24. +1000

well done- I agree.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Invite the fundies and they can throw on some Elvis records.

[ReggieVeggie]

19. I don't anticipate a pleasant experience if the fundies are around

something tells me they'll get physical

[Diclotican]

40. Tierra_y_Libertad

Tierra_y_Libertad

There is the limits.... Burning holly books is bad... But buring ELVIS RECORDS is DEVILS DEEDS.....

Diclotican

[Terra Alta]

21. Make sure it's a King James Bible.

That would really tick the fundies off.

Seriously though, I wouldn't burn any religion's holy book. I disagree with most religions, but I do have some respect for them.

[Yo_Mama]

22. Aren't you a bit out of step with reality?

The US military burned a bunch of bibles sent to Afghanistan:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/

Bible burning in Israel:
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-28/world/bible.burning_1_messianic-jews-deputy-mayor-israeli-radio-and-television?_s=PM:WORLD

This one's very funny; not only is this a Protestant church that believes in sola scriptura, the ONLY VALID TEXT is the King James version. So they decided to burn some other "satanic" versions to make a point:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/6346662/North-Carolina-church-plans-Halloween-Bible-burning.html
I still wonder if this was really a publicity stunt; surely they cannot believe that Genesis was originally written by King James?

It happens all the time.

Making a point in Norway:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1261100.ece

[JFN1]

23. From the "Let's take ourselves WAY too seriously" Department

Jeez, lighten up, will you people? THIS kind of failure to empathize and to avoid self-examination lies at the heart of the ROT eating away at our civilization.

If you cannot see the utter hypocrisy my OP attempts to poke fun at, if you cannot be honest enough with yourself to recognize the TRUTH of that hypocrisy as it applies to the crazy fringe in our society, I would like to advise you to get a really long mirror, bend over in front of it, and ensure you have nothing protruding from any bodily orifice which might account for an overabundance of self-righteous indignation, which is very likely blocking the ability mature adults possess to laugh at ourselves when someone points out the ridiculous double standards we all accept in our culture.

And in answer to the inevitable "why are you going off so hard on this" - please carefully read above - I have explained it fully.

[crazyjoe]

25. go ahead, i promise i won't kill anybody since i'm not a psycho.

[Buzz Clik]

26. I'm not big on burning books. I'll pass.

[ileus]

27. You'll probably be surprised when not one person is killed for revenge.

[WolverineDG]

33. Probably disappointed, not surprised nt

[msongs]

29. it's a weak religion that can't take criticism. nt

[Historic NY]

30. Motels got free ones.

[pipi_k]

36. Rocky Raccoon was saved by one of those... n/t

[some guy]

31. If I were into burning things

to make some sort of statement, I think I'd go for burning the Jones church.

But ignorant people wouldn't be educated, so ti would serve no useful purpose.

The whole eye for an eye thing that is mentioned in the bible is bullshit. So is escalation.


Education is the only worthwhile endeavor. It's why science and teachers are vilified in this society.

[JoePhilly]

32. Maybe if my mountain cabin has no heat and its -20F and snowing.

Otherwise, book burning of any kind is pretty stupid.

[TroglodyteScholar]

34. Sry, I'm against the burning of any book. n/t

[jakestake]

35. I can think of a lot of books I would burn way before The Bible....

but I probably wouldn't even burn them unless I really needed to for heat.

[Lucian]

38. I'm up for burning of all religious books.

The Bible, the Torah, and the Qur'an.

[davidthegnome]

39. Not me..

I treasure books way too much even to burn one I don't particularly like.