US Military approves burning Bibles

**justanotherboy** · September-09-10, 02:35 PM

Why do we care what the military thinks about some nut job in Florida burning a Quran if they don't have any problem with burning Bibles?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/as...bibles.burned/

**Johnlodge** · September-09-10, 02:59 PM

Religion sucks. Just look what it does in nutjob theocracies like Iran and Detroit.

**gnome** · September-09-10, 03:05 PM

Why do we care what the military thinks ...

you don't have to, that is your right, just as it is their right to express their opinion. Unless you are in favor of squashing the ability for volunteer soldiers to speak their minds.

From inference, your post hints that soldiers should sit-down and shut-up if they don't agree with your enlightened vision of what is right and wrong. I believe soldiers have a conflicting opinion, and since the burning of the q'ran might put them in harm's way, I believe their opinion is more informed.

therefore, you are less informed on this issue, and in common parlance, an asshat.

**gazhekwe** · September-09-10, 03:35 PM

They were burning them as a clean up of unused goods, not as a religious protest. So, the problem is ..... What IS the problem?

There is a problem with churches sending such, expecting the US presence to be used to convert people to a Biblical religion. If the Jesuits had minded their own business here, we would be in a lot better shape, having been able to maintain our own world view rather than being forced into one where we were regarded as inferior.

**Papasito** · September-09-10, 03:39 PM

Who cares if bibles or korans are being burned?
...besides Al Gore, the smoke is a pollutant and may contribute to Global Warming.
These burners should look into purchasing some carbon offsets....

**rb336** · September-10-10, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Papasito

Who cares if bibles or korans are being burned?
...besides Al Gore, the smoke is a pollutant and may contribute to Global Warming.
These burners should look into purchasing some carbon offsets....

book burning is carbon-neutral

**johnsmith** · September-10-10, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by rb336

book burning is carbon-neutral

The same way burning oil is carbon neutral? After all, the carbon didn't start out as part of oil molecules.

**rb336** · September-10-10, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by johnsmith

The same way burning oil is carbon neutral? After all, the carbon didn't start out as part of oil molecules.

ah, but it hasn't removed carbon from the atmosphere for hundreds of millions of years, whereas the book did fairly recently

**gibran** · September-10-10, 05:32 PM

it is about higher ground...we are a country that should take a higher road then the enemies..but then again the enemies sometime come from home.

**gibran** · September-10-10, 06:15 PM

on another note a Palestinian group [[specificaly and a individual) are building a Temple for the Jewish community of Fayetteville...one man is personally donating 200000 dollars to build "peace temple"...where is the cameras on this..by the way I know some of the peopel involved...they are truly heros...both jews and arabs...This is what we need...wouldnt it be greta if we built a mutifaith center...Mosque, Church an dtemple on the same ground with a shared common area?

**Gistok** · September-10-10, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by gibran

on another note a Palestinian group [[specificaly and a individual) are building a Temple for the Jewish community of Fayetteville...one man is personally donating 200000 dollars to build "peace temple"...where is the cameras on this..by the way I know some of the peopel involved...they are truly heros...both jews and arabs...This is what we need...wouldnt it be greta if we built a mutifaith center...Mosque, Church an dtemple on the same ground with a shared common area?

It sounds like a good idea until one looks at how the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has had so many squabbles between the Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Maronite Catholics, etc. which each claim their little niche in the church. Lots of petty arguments happen there all the time.... so multi-faith sounds great in principle... but the proverbial devil is in the details!

**Jimaz** · September-10-10, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by justanotherboy

Why do we care what the military thinks about some nut job in Florida burning a Quran if they don't have any problem with burning Bibles?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/as...bibles.burned/

Indignities contrived cheapen genuine indignity. There are far more genuine indignities than this.

**maxx** · September-12-10, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by justanotherboy

Why do we care what the military thinks about some nut job in Florida burning a Quran if they don't have any problem with burning Bibles?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/as...bibles.burned/

"Boy" is right. As the story says, the military was trying to protect themselves by burning the Bibles. Your logic is second grade logic.