Mitchell
I have my opinions, but want to know what you think.
Check out the article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42386587/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/
15 Answers
leeroy
mom
Colleen
I live in FL part of the year, this so called "pastor", was threatening to burn the Koran a few months ago. Some politician talked him out of it. Well, it looks like he just couldn't contain himself any longer and just had to do it. What an idiot, like the U.S. doesn't have enough enemies...
It might have been Jessie Jackson who talked him out of doing it the first time, I don't remember exactly who. The pastor is burning the Koran because of the Muslims that burn the Bible. Christians in other parts of the Muslim world are tortured, raped and murdered. I see how he is thinking, and it's wrong.
Two wrongs don't make a right no matter what you do. Although, three rights do make a left.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
t.u.2u, thanks. I saw him on the local news a while ago when he decided not to do it, I was thankful that he had a change of heart.
But I suppose he just couldn't help himself???
I understand where he is coming from, after 9-11 I wanted to punish the ones behind the attack, but once reason got a hold of me, I realized the Bible says to love your enemies. That's the best way to be an example of Christ. LOVE, show it, don't blow it.
matheneyg
Mitchell
I agree with you! It goes against Christianity to make such an offensive spectacle. The Pastor was wrong. On the other hand, addressing the response from the Muslims, wow! So someone burns a Bible, I've got my own. If he burns my Bible, I know where the book store is. Vengeance is mine sayeth the mob or the Pastor, who had no business performing the execution.
Just as a side not Colleen, it is my opinion that evil men performed the crusades and not the Bible, much the same as the Pastor performed the execution of a Koran and not the Bible. The Bible bids us to live peaceably with all men. If men actually lived up to the counsel in the Bible the Crusades wouldn't have happened, nor much of what is done bearing the name of Christianity.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
witchway
Vinny
There is evil everywhere, burning the Qur'an or Koran as you prefer is wrong, regardless of where you stand on the religious issue. I don't pay a whole lot of attention to MSNBC but there is no right way to do something wrong. Muslims and Christians have been at it for 2000 years. Its still wrong but I don't see much change in the fact in several lifetimes. Building a mosque at ground zero i think is wrong as well.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
nomdeplume
zorro
Gabalis
God has inspired many scriptures in his idea of himself, out of which many traditions were born. These teachings being the mysteries and the keys to Love and Peace or the Christos and the Father. They are guides to the Inward-Man, the True-Man, Ones Christ-man heard within. To burn any such works is in essence to ignorantly burn yourself, for hate and intolerance is a mighty fire. This creature, this fundamentalist is such a creature, dark and ignorant of God. Creating chaos where ever he can. But pay him no mind, for the darkness ever recedes before the Light. :)
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
hkg
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
eggplant
Adreamer2
In the New Testament, there were men who were walking around healing people in the name of God and the disciples of Jesus noticed them. They ran back and told Jesus what they witnessed and told him that they told these men to stop doing it. Jesus said, they are doing so in the name of God, prevent them not!
With that said, we must remember that God is no respecter of persons. And that it is written that there are those who follow a law which God had written upon their hearts to follow righteous ways. Although they do not know our laws, they are a law unto themselves in His eyes(Romans 2:15)
We should also let them have their faith. We should not persecute people on the basis of faith because we believe we have a right to trample on it. We do not! We don't know when we call what is of God evil. I say be very very careful!
Your sister,
Ginger,
Adreamer2
Work1ders
| 13 years ago. Rating: 0 | |
Mat
That is not even a question, NO.