The Bible. So childish. So full of rubbish. The Koran, Book of Mormon, and books of other religions are probably similarly grotesque.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
I came across this article from an ex-Muslim explaining how reading the Quran led him to become an atheist:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
This is reported by the BBC and others:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11223457
US church defiant despite condemnation of Koran burning
Terry Jones said he had prayed over the matter but insisted the Koran-burning would go ahead
A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary
This is just plain wrong. As much as I think that the Koran (and the Bible for that matter) is full of nonsense, I don’t think a public event to glorify the burning of the book is the correct way to highlight the nonsense. A critical review of the Koran with critical arguments and appropriate mocking is the best and honest way. All that this book-burning will do is push people further to the extremes and everything that is associated with such extremism.
For a quick (mostly correct) check on the nonsense in the Koran look at these links:
And for balance, here’s a check for nonsense in the Bible:
Although there is a lot of nonsense in the Bible, “Christian extremism” is now rare and has not really existed in any tangible form for some time (eg Spanish Inquisition) but this Koran-burning event is an unwelcome and unneeded move in that direction of extremism; it rather smacks of the naive and irrational burning of the “The Satanic Verses” by Muslims and the book-burning events by the Nazis. If a Christian wants to question and explore what the Koran says then Christians have already done most of the hard work:
Please note that I do not endorse everything at this site (as I think Christianity is absurd too) but what I was attempting to do was show a better way for a Christian to criticise the Koran than book-burning.
Here are some links that I do (mostly!) endorse:
What I would ask is for you to examine the evidence, the arguments and make up your own minds. But make sure that it is an honest assessment of the evidence otherwise the effort is just a waste of your time.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
Is that Pharyngula being nasty to you again? There, there. Have a cookie.
Here’s a man basing his morality, his way of live, on that hilariously hideous book called the Bible. The more I look at that book, the more I find it incredible that anyone can take it seriously (the Koran is just as bad). It’s just plain bonkers in many places with a monster ruining people’s lives.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Richard Dawkins, “The God Delusion”
The Pope and his friends do not have any moral high-ground and no rights to be immune from criticism. So I and others will call it as we see it. And if that means being “nasty” then so be it. Religion deserves no special privileges.
I’ve added some links here that some may find amusing:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010