Dear "Pastor" Jones:

[Brigid]

Well, you finally did it. You held your precious Koran burning, and right on cue the intended audience went batshit crazy, just as you knew they would. It's true they didn't have to let you play them like a cheap piano, but it's also true that you did'nt have to deliberately provoke them.

Are you happy now, dumbass?

[MH1]

1. Of course he's happy. People are paying attention to him.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. He's not happy until his mustasche is as awesome as Hulk Hogan's...

[W_HAMILTON]

3. I'm a little behind on this story

I know he was going to have a book burning in the past, but I suppose it was called off.

Did he go through with a book burning just recently? And deaths are being blamed for it?

I haven't seen this reported on, so I am out of the loop.

[Raine]

9. Yes ... here is the link

Afghan Mob Kills 10 United Nations Workers - Democratic Underground
Address:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4796710

[Taverner]

4. Fuck religion

It does poison everything

[Kurmudgeon]

6. That's like saying fuck cooking, because some people shouldn't be allowed near a kitchen.

Your bias has poisoned you, I see.

[Taverner]

8. Look - I have no problem with religion that defers to science and reason

If religion can reconcile science, fine. So be it. Let it flourish.

But Pastor Terry Jones' religion hasn't. And that is hurting us.

And as a result, people are dead because of the mutually assured destruction that is in both peoples' religion.

You can't say it's not that.

If someone here burned Das Kapital, do you think Communists would go out and behead UN workers?

If someone burned The Origin of Species, would Richard Dawkins go behead the first Christian he saw?

[Brigid]

7. Religion does not poison everything.

Idiots like Jones who use religion to advance their own agendas poison it.

[Taverner]

10. See post #8

If you can reconcile religion and reason then fine. So mote it be.

But Terry Jones and other fundamentalists of both Islam and Christianity cannot, and as a result perfectly good folks are dead.

Fuck religion.

[Modern_Matthew]

5. Now if only Viacom would run those South Park episodes uncensored.

They should be ridiculed on so many fronts that their target list will exhaust them. Religious extremists are not omnipresent.

[Ian David]

11. He's not in any danger here in America. Why doesn't he go burn a Quoran in Afghanistan? n/t