Alexanian, Moorad wrote:
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> Perhaps I convoluted my message too much to show the relevance of the book-burning saying, "Any book worth burning is a book worth reading." Christians need to mind if you speak against Jesus the Christ (Matt. 12:32), why would they mind if you burn the Bible? The logic of Christians is that paper burns but the truth in the Bible survives the flames. However, the reaction of Muslims of criticisms of Mohammed is often quite violent. Similarly, a Muslim by reacting violently to someone burning the Koran is tacitly admitting that there is not truth in it and so the Koran is not worth reading.
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I have recently been cutting my library at our summer cottage in half.
I am disposing of the books as follows:
1. Packing some to take home to the city to add to my library there.
2. Sending some to the thrift store, for them to sell in order to raise
money for social work or some such.
3. Burning some that either I think are not of interest to anyone at
this point in time or which I think are positively destructive eg those
that I picked up at someone's garage sale and which turned out to
contain excessive violence or sex or things like Hal Lindsey's writings
which I do not consider helpful. Please I am not saying that such
material as Lindsey's writings should not be in public or other
libraries just that they seem less than up building. They make good
fuel to consume the kitchen garbage.
On the other hand books that are burned in a public manner by civil or
religious authorities often are worth at least considering.
Dave W
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