Youtube atheists burning bibles??

jameswright · Oct 3, 2009

Hi this is my first post here, I apologize if this isn't in the right place.

Now I'm not too worried because this stuff is very common on the internet, but on the youtube website, the atheists encouraged other atheists to burn copies of the bible, as one user with the name "BornWithoutReligion" did.

I don't know what makes atheists think that we lack any of what she mentioned in her video.

youtube.com/watch?v=qlyIIFu4afU

Crispie · Oct 3, 2009

You know, it doesn't really matter. This is her way of protesting certain people, and I have no issue with it. Heck, I'd burn my bible if it meant getting across the point that I am not bound to my religion like some slave.

MrJDSmith · Oct 3, 2009

It is their book that they paid for so what is the probelm ?

Freodin · Oct 4, 2009

Yeah, let´s destroy what we disagree with. Purity rules! Kill everyone and let, err, non-God sort out his own.

Sorry, I just can´t agree with such behaviour. You don´t burn books. Fullstop!

Dark_Lite · Oct 4, 2009

Militant atheism makes me lol.

MrJim · Oct 4, 2009

But she is cute..

MrJDSmith · Oct 4, 2009

Freodin said:
Yeah, let´s destroy what we disagree with. Purity rules! Kill everyone and let, err, non-God sort out his own.

Sorry, I just can´t agree with such behaviour. You don´t burn books. Fullstop!

So they can't express what they what in legal form that they are because you don't agree with their view ?

Krus · Oct 4, 2009

MrJDSmith said:
It is their book that they paid for so what is the probelm ?

The problem is not in ownership of the book.
They can burn their property home, but they did that with the purpose to show their attitude. They showed it for everybody.
And it doesn't matter whose property was burned.
This is a problem.

MrJDSmith · Oct 4, 2009

Krus said:
The problem is not in ownership of the book.
They can burn their property home, but they did that with the purpose to show their attitude. They showed it for everybody.
And it doesn't matter whose property was burned.
This is a problem.

so if their purpose or attitude does not agree with you, they are not allowed to express it ?

Freodin · Oct 4, 2009

Oh, they are allowed to do that.

But not everything that is allowed is appropriate.

Krus · Oct 4, 2009

MrJDSmith said:
so if their purpose or attitude does not agree with you, they are not allowed to express it ?

I can not allow or restrict anybody as I'm not God.
God created a human to be free. But it doesn't mean that each thing people do is good.

kerplin · Oct 5, 2009

The basic view is that this is no different from any other form of protest. People won't agree with it based on their own feelings of the situation. When truly, it's just an expression. I don't view it as my place to claim whether the people that took this challenge were bad, or good, just different. They didn't hurt anyone, didn't cost anyone anything. So it's fine to do it if you feel the need, or have that desire.

coastie · Oct 5, 2009

She kind of misses the whole point of Christianity.... and she's kinda creepy too.

tanzanos · Oct 5, 2009

Burning books is just not appropriate behaviour. This brings to mind things like Kristallnacht, and the burning of the library of Alexandria.

Personally I cannot bring myself to burn a book! One should express one's disagreements with words and not with fire!

peadar1987 · Oct 5, 2009

tanzanos said:
Burning books is just not appropriate behaviour. This brings to mind things like Kristallnacht, and the burning of the library of Alexandria.

Personally I cannot bring myself to burn a book! One should express one's disagreements with words and not with fire!

I agree 100% with you. Burning books is especially laden with such heavy symbolism.

pgp_protector · Oct 5, 2009

Well reading Acts, it does appear as though burning things that you no longer agree with is the normal thing.

Acts 19:19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

PhilosophicalBluster · Oct 5, 2009

You would think that by this era of global knowledge, people would realize that burning books is barbaric.

JBJoe · Oct 8, 2009

I don't see what the big deal is here. Historically when we talk about "book burning" it means destroying every extant copy so that nobody reads the contents of the book. For example Beowulf is such an important Old English epic poem not because it was the greatest of its time, but because it is the greatest of its time that didn't get destroyed by the Christians of the day.

What you have here is someone destroying a single copy of the new testament to demonstrate the conviction of their position. The book is the newer portion of the most popular book of all time. It's going to take more than a couple of angry atheists before there are no Bibles for people to read.

tanzanos · Oct 8, 2009

JBJoe said:
I don't see what the big deal is here. Historically when we talk about "book burning" it means destroying every extant copy so that nobody reads the contents of the book. For example Beowulf is such an important Old English epic poem not because it was the greatest of its time, but because it is the greatest of its time that didn't get destroyed by the Christians of the day.

What you have here is someone destroying a single copy of the new testament to demonstrate the conviction of their position. The book is the newer portion of the most popular book of all time. It's going to take more than a couple of angry atheists before there are no Bibles for people to read.

You are missing the point. It is not the actual fact that a book got burnt but the condoning of such acts that is to be taken seriously into account. If people condone book burnings then we as a society have lost a little more to the ones who would wreak their ignorance in the form destruction. I do not want to sound apocalyptic but like we say in my country "Bean by bean you fill the sack".
Damn shame really.

canukian · Oct 8, 2009

she is gutless to burn a bible in a christian country. now burning a koran in a muslim country is more like suiside.

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