APGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.
"We are still determined to it, yes," the Rev. Terry Jones told the CBS Early Show.
Jones says he has received more than 100 death threats and has started wearing a .40-caliber pistol strapped to his hip since announcing his plan to burn the book Muslims consider the word of God and insist be treated with the utmost respect. The 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage "International Burn-a-Quran Day."
But I always thought a great act of reparation for the damage done to families by contraception would be to have a big burning. Pills, condoms, ... surgical snippers, along with porn and any other decadent devices.... But on further reflection, those fumes would be a bit more toxic than say a couple thousand pages paper. Too bad it all wouldn't just curl up nicely like the Wicked Witch of the West. Oddly enough, only the Jihadists would participate along with a few practicing Catholics.
Back to Florida, if St Louis and St Francis could not bring an end to Islam, then I'm sorry Pastor Jones, you're not gonna win this one.
Chesterton wrote in The Everlasting Man.
Yet there are some who cannot see what the Crusaders were fighting for; and some even who talk as if Christianity had never been anything but a form of what they called Hebraism coming in with the decay of Hellenism [Matthew Arnold]. Those people must certainly be very much puzzled by the war between the Crescent and the Cross. If Christianity had never been anything but a simple morality sweeping away polytheism, there is no reason why Christendom should not have been swept into Islam. The truth is that Islam itself was a barbaric reaction against that very humane complexity that is really a Christian character; that idea of balance in the deity, as of balance in the family, that makes that creed a sort of sanity, and that sanity the soul of civilization.
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I'm scared to see what those contraceptives would do in a big bonfire. With all those chemicals, it might look like the Fourth of July! Nice Chesterton quote.
This would be fun to do after a Theology on Tap night with the theme of "Saving women/marriages from the dangers of contraception"!! Of course, one may want to was a gas mask. It's bad enough we get to drink the chemicals in the water without inhailing them.
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