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To: aruanan; mtntop3; HiTech RedNeck; ohioWfan; xzins; Buggman
Your comment is replete with the fallacies of special emphasis and special pleading, ignoring everything in actual teaching about how to behave toward outsiders/unbelievers in favor of making, ad hoc for the purpose of justifying the burning of the Koran on supposedly Christian grounds, a specific, single historical incident into some sort of general Christian rule of behavior.

FWIW there were several Popes who ordered the public burning not only of Korans, but also copies of the Talmud and other sacred Jewish texts. So if you need a modern example of Christians burning Korans, you need look no further than the Catholic Church.

Are you willing to condemn the Catholic Church for it's history of torching Jewish and Islamic Sacred texts? This of course does not even touch on the Catholic Church's burning of Mayan and Aztec texts as well as Protestant translations of the Bible.

215 posted on 09/07/2010 6:23:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe
Well any Protestant would, of course, protest. Luther and the other reformers would have considered them, for the most part, nuts. Actually the former pope kissed a Koran, which is going a bit far in the other direction. This Catholic book burning didn't happen in a vacuum anyhow did it? It happened in the context of actual Catholic ownership of the state, right? Where they felt they were responsible for the well being of the whole state, diplomacy in evangelism be damned?
221 posted on 09/07/2010 8:44:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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