NOT COOL

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Okay, two things about this clusterfuck:

1. Terry Jones is an anthropologically myopic asshole, ascribing attributes to another religion that could have an equal application, or misapplication, to his own. On the other hand,

2. I don’t fucking care what the book says; it is not more important than somebody’s life. If you have become murderously violent toward random people simply because some asshole on the other side of the world has disrespected a copy of it, you really need to reexamine your priorities.

People wonder why atheists get exasperated by religion. Sure, without it I’m sure humans would behave this stupidly over something else, and I would probaby get just as exasperated over that, too, but I hate that religion gets a free pass to do this sort of bullshit. This is just unbelievable.

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[piccolo-pirate.livejournal.com]

The best part (I'm using "best" loosely here), is that Jones didn't just burn the book this time - his "church" put the Quran "on trial", and found it guilty of crimes against humanity. The book. THE BOOK. On trial. I'm losing my mind here and sputtering out two-word sentences of total headdesk. Jones was quoted as saying "...we put together a trial. In that sense, we were not going out just to burn the Koran, although the result was that it was burned. If you are found guilty of a crime in the US, you do not get to go home. There has to be a punishment."

Because apparently in the US court system, we also try religious texts. And the punishment for the verdict of "didn't like it" is "BURN IT TO DEATH!" That's not symbolic and inflammatory at all. *headdesk*

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

So are they going to put the Bible on trial next week?

[piccolo-pirate.livejournal.com]

That would require them to acknowledge the amount of senseless violence (not to mention blatant contradiction, if you're "reading it literally") in the Bible, so I suspect... no.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

They're not rational people; don't expect them to act rationally.