"Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in, then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him." Ishmael – From Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
Ah, religion,150 years after Moby Dick and the words ring truer than ever…
"We’re not big debaters. We’re not very well educated. We ‘re just simple people trying to do the right thing." Luke Jones, 29 year old sun of Christian Reverend Terry Jones speaking for all Evangelical Christians.
Though the media gave it little attention, Evangelical Christian Reverend Terry Jones – and his congregation of 30 – went back on his word and did indeed burn the Koran in a portable fire pit in his church yard on March 20th. Though promising not to do so to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates last September, Jones said,
"If you want to be technical, I guess we broke our word." Rev. Terry Jones
To his credit this Christian pastor did not burn the book without first taking it to trial in his backyard where the trailer is that serves as his church, Dove World Outreach. The 30 member Christian congregation was presented with the evidence, there was no defense of course, and a guilty verdict and sentence was unanimously handed down from on high. Which in turn got a verdict from the other religion with a $2.4 million price for the Pastor’s head on a plate. Ah religion…
Since the burning was steamed live on the Internet groups of murdering religious Afghanistan Muslims have been killing more and more innocent people from other religions. Ah, religion…
The the count of these religious murders is now around 20, it is a nanonit compared to the amount of American teen suicides caused by American Evangelical Christians refusing to accept gay teens for what they are. As Jesus Christ said so well, "A good homo is a dead homo." Ah, religion…
Of course causing thousands of teen suicides because of homosexual bigotry is not enough for American Evangelical Christians. They are primary purpose these days is to accomplish even more suicides and backroom butcher jobs on teenage girls by denying them the right to choose an abortion. As Jesus Christ said, "Let the government decide." Ah religion…
Pastor Terry Jones Receives Death Threats After Koran Burning