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To: NicknamedBob

Re books and their sanctity....

Mohammedans don’t have a problem with their holy books being desecrated...They do it all the time...They just don’t want anyone else to do it.

Similarly they have no problem blowing up the mosques belonging to other Islamic sects...Neither to they have a problem using them as a sniping nest or an arsenal.

Re: Christianity....Where exactly have you ever seen war re the desecration of a book.

Wars were waged re: content of dogma but not content of the book...And then not in 200-300 years...and despite the outward appearance of the wars being religious they were really the typical political power grab.


108 posted on 10/09/2007 3:15:23 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: TASMANIANRED
"Re: Christianity....Where exactly have you ever seen war re the desecration of a book."



http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/Guns-Germs-and-Steel.jpg

The events depicted on the illustration of Mr. Diamond's book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" spring to mind.

Supposedly, because the Holy Bible was not treated with proper deference and awe, about seven thousand "government workers" were slain in an orgy of violence.

109 posted on 10/09/2007 3:58:09 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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