Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead

[chatpilot]

Oh rj, you hurt my feelings. Seriously though, he should be ashamed for inciting the violence that now engulfs the middle east due to his childish actions. I bet he wont dare do that in Afghanistan in a public square where he is surrounded by violent, backward, crazy ass Muslims. Honestly though, I would trade the lives of all those that have died and continue to die due his actions for his any day.

It's not about freedom for me it's about common sense. It's easy to speak of war when you are not sitting in the bunker being shot at.

[reverendjeremiah]

My point is that many other people are being killed because of this morons actions.

NO. Absolutely not. That is not happening in real life. The people are being killed because of the savage tendencies of thier society. Burning a book in America does not kill people on the other side of the globe. The reality is that barbarians are using a burnt book as a poor excuse to go on a murderous rampage...as if they needed the excuse to begin with. This is what terrorists do, and you have fallen for it hook line and sinker. You are willing to curb our freedoms to make the terrorists happy. Once they know they can go that far, they will go a bit farther. Next they will go on a terrorist spree for allowing non-muslims to have the same freedom in America.

We can't expect other countries to abide by these same rules, they have their own ways and customs.

But you expect americans to abide, or at least have a healthy respect for the barbaric laws of afcrapistan, since you think the pastor should be punished according to the laws of afghanistan. So we have to abide their murderous ways and walk on eggshells around them, while we hold them blameless. You have posted on other topics that out first amendment is "nothing but paper", but at the same time consider quranic law to be upholding "Burn a Quran: Death sentence". That alone has cost you my respect.

We are supposed to be an advanced nation who has left the stone age behind although that's debatable, yet we still have idiots like pastor moron there pulling childish stunts and putting not himself or his congregation at risk but others that he could care less about.

Okay. Me and you are obviously at an impasse. I support that pastors freedom to do what he did, regardless if I think it was wise or not. If I say otherwise then I remove my own freedoms, and that of others and that is unacceptable to me. No amount of words will ever change the reality that those people MURDERED those other people...not the pastor.

[chatpilot]

"You have posted on other topics that out first amendment is "nothing but paper", but at the same time consider quranic law to be upholding "Burn a Quran: Death sentence". That alone has cost you my respect."

Thankfully, I don't need nor require your respect.

[Ashendant]

Like i said i defend the priest right to burn, but not defend what he did and he should be punished, he knew fully well what this would cause and he did it because he's safe, but there are victims and he should be held accountable, trough he did nothing illegal his punishment should be public ostracisation and guilt

[reverendjeremiah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQ_OfOTEHc

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Christians burning a book because they don't like the contents, who'd have thunk? -Oh,wait-----

[chatpilot]

Smells like a shit load of Patriotism which to me is just as dangerous as religious extremism. Remember what Oscar Wilde said about Patriotism.

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

[reverendjeremiah]

Christians burning a book because they don't like the contents, who'd have thunk? -Oh,wait-----

I burned the koran and the bible..who'd have thunk? - Oh, wait----LOL.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

"You have posted on other topics that out first amendment is "nothing but paper", but at the same time consider quranic law to be upholding "Burn a Quran: Death sentence". That alone has cost you my respect."

Thankfully, I don't need nor require your respect.

The declaration of independence and the US Constitution are fascinating because of their contradictions.

At the same time,they manage to be arguably the most noble political documents ever written AS WELL AS the the most fatuous and disingenuous.

I think you're right Chatty; just pieces of paper. Their power lies in their ideas and those who enact and defend them.

Sadly, like many governments (including mine) US governments have a long tradition of ignoring bits of the constitution whenever it has seen fit.

[chatpilot]

I burned my bible when I left the church but it was a private affair and I felt at the time that I needed to do that to break my fear of God permanently. I was a very fundamental Pentecostal evangelist who truly feared the imaginary guy in the sky with all my heart.