To want to burn one of each Religious text today?

[JustMakingAPoint]

Not because I hate or dislike them.

Not because I think burning books is good (I do not)

But because I should be able too. Because we have no Blasphemy laws and mean as it is, it’s not illegal and shouldn’t be.

And I want to do it to all of them to make the point it’s not about Islam, though it is provoked by today’s news.

This country is secular, blasphemy laws do not exist. And they shouldn’t.

if it takes every person burning a single religious book of their choosing to make the point - then I’m up for that.

I'm not respectful of any religion, but neither am I actively seeking out opportunities to display that. I can see the difference between burning an Islamic text versus burning a Christian one though.

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If the OP wants to burn religious texts there is no blasphemy law in England, Scotland or Wales to prevent her from doing so - unless somebody perceives it as a "hate crime" or "hate incident". Whatever they are.

If you want to burn them, go for it.

Attention seeker.

As a Catholic I'd be very upset - and repulsed - to see you burn the Bible, but I wouldn't have you arrested for it.

Burn the Quran and you'll probably have to go into hiding. The boy who dropped the Quran in school was suspended and his mother had to don a hijab and apologise for it on television. How does anyone think 'yes, this is the normal and good response'?

Secular country? Rampant nonsense. There's a church on every corner round my way, plus a Hindu temple, several mosques....

Can you link to the television apology? Which channel?

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

Oh fabulous

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

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

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

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

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

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

The link doesn't work.

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

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.

What’s the difference?

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.

How respectful of you.

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.

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

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

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.

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.