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

[keely emerinemix]

Aristotle and Wayne might be in disagreement over how rational human beings -- particularly the religious among us are -- compared to animals, but speaking as a religious human being, a Christian, I condemn the burning of a book considered holy to roughly one-third of the world.  That I do not choose to believe, nor to follow, the teachings of the Q'uaran doesn't mitigate in the slightest my disgust that those who profess to share my faith would behave in such an ugly manner.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: deco at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 14:00:21 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Church plans Quran-burning event:  A local option











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(medical texts, for example) with outdated or otherwise erroneous information 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...
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> 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
>  
> waf at moscow.com <mailto:waf at moscow.com>
> 208 
  882-7975
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