September 11 is fast approaching. Everyone is focused on Rev Jerry Jones and his flock in Gainesville, Fla. He has promised to burn the Qu'ran on Sept. 11 to bring attention to the extremist in the Muslim faith, and the Sharia law.
The world is watching! The State department has put out a travel warning. General Petraeus has said that it would put the troops in harms way.
There are images of the folks, presumbably Muslims, burning the American Flag and Rev Jerry Jones image.
I have questions on many levels about this. Hopefully, the community will be able to shed some light on it all.
- Does the WH intervene by asking the Pastor to not to burn the books?
If so, then when we expect the WH (big government, big brother, to step in and solve all of our religious problems.
- So the Rev Jerry Jones isn't breaking a law, right, by burning the book. And this is the land of the free, where we are all free to worship as we see fit. If we stop him from burning the books, are we no longer free?
- Would Christians, Jews, Buddhist, satanists, witches, all other religious began to kill in retailiation of someone burning the Bible, Torah, Buddha, statues of elephants, monkeys, cows, and whatever religious symbol? Is it okay to kill because someone burned your religious artifact?
It seems extreme to me that one's reaction would be to kill someone over a book. Is the same as a comic of Mohammad? I have heard Jesus's name used in vain, God's name used as a curse word, Jesus and God have been mocked, and mistreated in every imaginable way, yet I haven't killed anybody about it. I haven't wanted to kill anybody about it.
My God is greater than any mocking, burning, cursing, dissing , or any other thing anybody can do or say about Him. He is not diminished at all by any such act.
I can't understand why Muslims would think that thier God, or Mohammad is diminished by such human efforts.