Texas Rev Now Plans to Burn Copies of The God Delusion instead of the Koran
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/bookburning-sh...
The Texan pastor's moved on from the Koran to a pyre of The God Delusion.
IN SCENES of calm bemusement not seen in the lower United States since John Scopes taught innocent schoolchildren evolution, it was reported yesterday that Pastor Terry Jones had given up on his plans to burn 200 Korans and was instead planning to incite atheists by soaking a gross of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion in moonshine and putting a match to them.
Atheists, who hadn't been expected to come out in pick-up trucks with gun racks on their rear windows and circle his church with their engines revving like goaded Rottweilers, didn't.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Metcalfe on -
As long as those books were paid for it matters not what people do with them. It's their property after all. It just goes to show the vast difference between the mentalities of muslims and people in the western nations.
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Permalink Reply by Marvina Benzekri on -
Isn't Pastor Terry Jones in the United States, a western nation? I would say more like there is a vast difference between ANY fundamentalist religion and free thinkers.
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Permalink Reply by BryanPaul on -
I guess if he buys them he's helping the cause at least that much. Dawkins should send him a thank you letter for helping the Atheist cause. The local paper should print the story "Local pastor supports Atheism by perchasing every copy of The God Delusion from book story!"
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Permalink Reply by Cara Coleen on -
like!
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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on -
that's ok with me..atheists wont get as upset as religious people would over a book burning.
I'd only be offended if he started burning brand new science text books.
I say let him cause a scene. the more he bitches and moans about his religion, the more people will see that he's a loon.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Metcalfe on
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I wish I'd published a best seller. He could burn the whole damned lot for all I care as long as he paid for them first. He's probably enjoyed the brief notoriety and wants to prolong it but he's only made himself a laughing stock.
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Permalink Reply by Perthy on -
How funny. He's probably pretty upset at the lack of response :)
Hilarious piece of satire.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Sizer-Watt on -
yes, and we seem to be proud of it (and rightly so IMO)
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