To want to burn one of each Religious text today?

For those interested in the case of the teenage boy who scuffed a copy of the Qu'ran, here is a link to a discussion of it on Anti- Social
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jsr2

Its well worth a listen.

This was a disgraceful incident. The boy, who was autistic, had committed no crime at all. Others sent death threats to him and he was terrified. His Mother had to go and beg at a local mosque for the harassment and threats to her son to end. The police were there watching her beg and nothing was done to those threatening her son. The muslim speaker in the linked programme talks of how terrible it is that the Qu'ran was disrespected yet dismisses the death threats with a laugh as, ' ;'boys will be boys.' He had committed no crime, others were committing crimes against him with the threats and harassment. Yet his Mother is the one publicly begging for forgiveness for him, with police there, and the police and no-one else are holding in mind that he is the victim of crime, not the muslim community.

I imagine this is the sort of thing OP is referencing. This should not be happening in a secular country.

100% this

Indeed that's the issue. Of course it's offensive to burn religious texts, but it beggars belief that anyone thinks it's a good idea to apply a different standard to Islam on its own.

Well I have no desire to burn any books, really, or to deliberately cause offence, but I agree that it should not be a criminal offence to do so.

Do you have copies lying around or are you going to buy them specially for burning @JustMakingAPoint?

Secular country does not mean there are no people of faith in it. It means we are not a theocracy.

Yes you should be able to without having to fear retaliation and going into hiding.

Being a free, democratic society means people can do things which are provocative and which offends others. Being a free society means people are free to do things which others find 'not nice.' Being a free society means that people raise their objections to the words and actions of others without threatening or harming the other person. We should be a tolerant, pluralistic society and that means people don't have to be respectful of views or ideologies they do not respect or which they consider harmful. Being a tolerant society means we don't try to silence views, or people, we disagree with. We debate them. And our politicians and leaders, and each of us, should all stand up for this tolerant, debating and free society.

So yes OP, you are being reasonable.

And people saying, ' yes you can but you shouldn't because that's not respectful' are entirely missing the point.

It's fine, just make sure that you are clearly identifiable in the footage as you burn them and make it very clear which texts are being destroyed. So there are no misunderstandings.

OP clearly dissappeared off to have a big bonfire 😂 probably having a sulk somewhere now because no one paid any attention

What is today's news that is making the OP want to burn religious books? The new Pope?

Burning books are typically what the uneducated, illiterate beings do. Mainly because they don’t have the intelligence to communicate in any other way.

In regard to religion be root of all evil etc. Take yourself to your local library and dig into some history books. Bloody thirsty atheists aplenty.

The root of all evil, imo, all boils down to money.
The people at the top don’t want the masses to follow the restraint that religion teaches- it’s bad for business. How to get rid of religion? Vilify it. It works on the lazy who have little to no knowledge, and garner all their “information “ from the media.

religion isn’t evil. People are.

How respectful of you.

To be fair, some out-of-date texts are a menace to society. I once had a first aid manual that insisted on tourniquets to control bleeding. And when I was an advice worker, we were haunted by redundant law texts, especially The Reader's Digest You and Your Rights. According to some of our clients, it was the favourite reading of Walter the Windbag, their local's in-house "legal expert." Because it was badly out-of-date, (assuming it was all that accurate to start with) it caused a lot of confusion and distress to people who already had a lot of deal with.

What’s the difference?

Gotta remove the query string from the url. But someone has posted it above anyway.

I take back television - I should have written broadcasted.

Either way it is utterly BONKERS.

I think Catholics stopped caring when they started selling snow globes with Jesus’ face at the Vatican.

The link doesn't work.

A secular country does not mean a country where religion doesn't exist.

It's linked in the Reddit post somewhere upthread. Just because it's not mainstream television doesn't mean it's not broadcasted.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2888961/Video-Mother-boy-dropped-Quran-says-received-death-threats.html
@PlutoCat

Not when you could give them away for the next set of students to use.

It's pointless, weird and polluting so...no.

Knock yourself out. Every Qu’ran you burn just strengthens a Muslim’s faith.

Oh fabulous

well if you have a uni education you shouldn’t really have to have the difference between the two explained to you