Priest burns himself to death over Islam

[Freedom_from_Chains]

Now who says that the war and everything else we have going on in the world and in this country is not also a war over religion?



Priest burns himself to death over Islam
From David Crossland in Berlin

A retired priest committed suicide by setting himself on fire in a German monastery in protest at the spread of Islam and the Protestant Church’s inability to contain it.
Roland Weisselberg, 73, poured a can of petrol over his head and set light to himself in the grounds of the Augustine monastery in the eastern city of Erfurt, where Martin Luther spent six years as a monk at the beginning of the 16th century.

Witnesses said that Weisselberg climbed into a building site next to the monastery church, where a Reformation Day service was being held. He shouted “Jesus and Oskar” before the flames engulfed him. The latter name was an apparent reference to Oskar Brüsewitz, a priest who burnt himself in 1976 in protest against the Communist regime in East Germany. Monastery staff tried to put out the flames and Weisselberg was still conscious as a nun prayed with him before he was taken to hospital. He died a day later, on Wednesday.


(con't)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2434625,00.html

[Nolo_Contendre]

1. Everyone with similar sfeelings should follow suit

Bigot burns himself to death. I don't see a problem here.

[Vidar]

14. He wins an especially ironic Darwin Award.

[Trajan]

2. Hmmmm ....

:freak: :crazy: :freak: :crazy: :freak: :crazy:

Crazy man kills himself through self-immolation ....

This is news, yes ...... but is it insight ? ...

[AndreaCG]

3. I knew someone who immolated himself

He was dating this girl in my dorm. We were very happy because he was older and seemed like a stable influence on her. (She had psychological problems.) Then over Christmas break he killed himself. Fortunately, she was smart and checked herself into the mental hospital.

[baldguy]

4. Suicide is a sin equal to murder.

[gaspee]

5. yeah, since

we all believe in things like sin.

:banghead:

[Vidar]

11. Not according to the Bible. Suicide was made a sin by an early

Catholic pope who was dustressed at the number of Christians trying to martyr themselves into heaven. Personally, I accept suicide & only buy into sin as a clumsy metaphor.

[beam me up scottie]

12. Yes, but is it worse than being a homosexual?

:eyes:

Sin doesn't exist.

It's a tool used to control the sheep.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. That is pitiful

on many, many levels.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. This is an example of someone being literally consumed by hatred

:-(

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. And that is what I have always said about hatred, it always starts

out being directed outward but in the end it always consumes it source.

[Vidar]

13. Not a bad way to look at it. On the other hand, I looked on

the Buddhists who did this to protest the Vietnam war as highly principled.
I suppose I regard the act(suicide) as morally neutral & the intention as paramount.

[NMMNG]

9. Yes, because Islam taking over the world

is so much worse than Christianity doing so. :sarcasm:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

10. Yea, after all we're the good guys, our past is as pure as the

virgin snow, not like those evil Islamo-fascist who hate us for our freedoms. :sarcasm: