Burning the Quran - Is This the Way We Want Our Religious Leaders to Act?
On that note as I read about Reverend Terry Jones and his idiotic plight, I once again feel sickened. I want to go on record as saying that I, as an American Citizen, feel that such an act has no place in civilized society. Our great country was founded on the concept of freedom, that includes freedom of religion, which is a constitutional right afforded to every citizen. In my opinion, Religious Leaders should be shining examples of peace and peace-keeping, and should certainly not be carrying out public acts of vengeance and intolerance.
Terry Jones should be locked up to prevent him from carrying out this stupid demonstration. I feel it is just a sensationalist stunt, dreamed up by a small town pastor, as a way to gain notoriety for himself and his church. What he is planning, and I don't care to hear the reasons or excuses he uses to support, makes him just as bad, if not worse than the fundamentalist groups he claims to be sending a message to. The only message he could possibly send is: " I'm an idiot looking for my fifteen minutes of fame."
Not only is he about nine years too late to honor the victims of the terrorist attacks, he is way out of line. If he really wants to honor the victims, he could send their families a big fat check, or hold a memorial service, or plant a tree. Surely he could find a more positive way to honor the memories of those who perished. Is this who you want leading your spiritual journey? It's surely not who I would want commanding mine. I would be much too afraid I'd wind up drinking poison.
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Post a CommentI agree with Tony. I agree that Jones is way out of line but your reaction of wanting to lock him up is pretty out of line too and that's part of the problem with what he is doing, it simply provokes others to over react to him and tends to discredit Christianity in the minds of others. One of the best positive solutions is this group, I can't think what they are called, that interposes themselves between the military families and Jones' demonstrators. Jones is addressing several moral problems in a way that only intensifies them rather than helping anything. It's really very sad. Of course Liberal hate speech is OK. I am called a racist by them because I want to bring the illegal alien problem under control.
I have to side with you on this! We are never going to solve anything through stupidity! Nice job on this!
Sickened is a great word for all of it. Right on!
I'm glad to see the varying viewpoints about this situation here. Thanks for writing this article!
I don't know Tony, but how can we claim we are better if we stoop to the same level? I guess like any religion you have people who take it to the extreme. I guess it is just a good reason for us to feel grateful for our great country and the freedom it affords us. :)
I agree with you, it was a stupid act to go and burn religious books. It never worked in the past, and it probably won't in the future. All it does is stir up more hatred. The problem with these moslem radicals though is that no matter how tolerent we try to become of them and of other religions, the tolerence is not reciprocated, especially in the Middle East, where if you don't conform and question the system, you disappear or are savagely murdered. Just how to you deal with a brutal medieval culture that wants to take over the world?