[Vision2020] Church plans Quran-burning event: A local option

[Art Deco]

1.    Some books such as scientific text books (medical texts, for example) with outdated or otherwise erroneous information need to be destroyed to prevent the consequences of actions resulting from these errors.  Composting them is probably better than burning, however.

2.    The key phrase for those who missed it in my suggestion below is "with just as much accuracy."  Think irony.  When statements result from religious or other fantasies with probabilities infinitesimally close to zero, and no critical decisive tests exist (save the tests for logical inconsistency) to decide which fantasy has the probability closest to zero, any claims made by believers based on either fantasy ought be seen for what they are and reacted to accordingly.  In the case cited the reactions ought include laughter, horror, and the sadness that comes with knowing that rationality is far from distinguishes man from the other animals despite the claims of Aristotle.


W.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Rumelhart 
  To: Art Deco 
  Cc: Vision 2020 
  Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:50 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Church plans Quran-burning event: A local option



  When you burn a book, you are saying to the world that you fear what is 
  in that book.  Isn't it high time we stopped being afraid?

  Paul

  Art Deco wrote:
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  >   Church plans Quran-burning event
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  > In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a 
  > nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an 
  > "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the 
  > September 11, 2001, attacks...
  >  
  > http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/29/florida.burn.quran.day/index.html
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  > Maybe the local Muslims can initiate a Burn Douglas Wilson 
  > Writings/Rantings Day claiming with just as much accuracy as the 
  > claims about the Quran made in the above referenced article 
  > that Cultmaster Wilson's  writings/rantings are the work of the devil.
  >
  > Wayne A. Fox
  > 1009 Karen Lane
  > PO Box 9421
  > Moscow, ID  83843
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  > waf at moscow.com <mailto:waf at moscow.com>
  > 208 882-7975
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