(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: I guess you can go ahead and burn a Bible or a Quran if you really need to release your anger that way.
Who said anything about anger?
(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: But, other than that, I don't see any positive effects that can come out of doing such a thing.
Oh I don't know...my garden is looking great!
(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: And if you do it, then you shouldn't do it in front of others because they will obviously know that you're burning them just to make them feel offended (which is going to put you in a bad light).
Only a Theist would be THAT sensitive and take the ideology that people should do as THEY say
(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: So, I think it would be much a wiser action to just tell them why you hate those books or perhaps what particular things you find to be repulsive in those books instead of burning them. This is just my opinion.
At the end of the day they are just books...out of date and out of fashion...they will be burned or composted or thrown into the great midden that is humanities rubbish heap...there is nothing sacred about them raayan...since there is nothing sacred about all those works that have been destroyed over the centuries by religious zealots in the name of their deity.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5