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| Cerrinea wrote: |
The perpetrator of the Koran burning can dress it up any way he likes and excuse it with bible quotations, but his motivation is hatred, plain and simple. |
Which in itself shows that he is not even a good student of the Bible- and especially the New Testament. Peter, Paul, and company didn't seem to need to go into a temple to Diana, or otherwise and burn their sacred writings- they did this thing called reasoning; in fact Paul even praises the zeal of the Athenians even though he believed it misdirected. Unfortunately too many didn't learn his lesson and they, like this nut-job pastor, get trotted out as typical examples and products of their inherent beliefs- and maybe sometimes we deserve that.
Being a Christian (leaning Orthodox Christian) I don't agree with Islam, I've read a lot of the Koran and Hadith, been many times to the middle east and have seen what Sharia Law can bring- and in my view it isn't good. But, on the other hand, I have met scores of these people who deserve my basic human respect, who sat me down next to a campfire and offered me tea, who laugh and try and talk with me. I believe the Koran and Hadith are wrong, I believe the path they teach is wrong; but to then burn it and hope that people will come and meet Jesus? Who would want the false Jesus that that book-burning represents? To me that may be as dangerous, if not more so, than any particular Islamic teaching.
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