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  • #16
    Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
    Fixed.
    Y'know, we might have felt bad about/stolen less land from the Injuns if we hadn't known God wanted us to have it.
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    • #17
      Originally posted by Elok View Post
      Y'know, we might have felt bad about/stolen less land from the Injuns if we hadn't known God wanted us to have it.

      Elok, I know that you aren't an idiot - stop acting as one
      With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Elok View Post
        Y'know, we might have felt bad about LIBERATING the Injuns if we hadn't known God wanted us to do it.
        Fixed Ben-style.
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        • #19
          Al, you have totally miised the point
          With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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          • #20
            England is worse than us... be vigilant my friends

            I mean, stay thirsty

            or as Uncle Jimbo says, everything is legal in Mexico, its the American way

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Elok View Post
              Like the Jyllands-Posten cartoons, this is just astonishingly bad taste and should not be criminal.


              Seriously burning a few sheets of paper you own that happen to own is illegal? I mean its not like she destroyed one of the few copies of a rare manuscript.

              Also its unusual to see a teen girl do something nonconformist (rebelling against your parents is pretty conformist), I usually see a angry frustrated guy doing things like this.
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              The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
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              • #22
                An English translation of the Quran won't be considered to be a Quran by muslims, so burning it can't be a problem at all.
                Besides that: book burnings.....
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                • #23
                  Burning the Quran is probably safer than burning the Bible because it is made out more natural materials. Bibles, these days, are often made with plastics and other agents that emit noxious fumes when burnt. Is this an anti-burning mechanism or are manufacturers just cheap?
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                  • #24
                    We have hysterical laws against "inciting religious hatred" which ISTR seemed to get rushed through after the 7/7 bombings, for some strange reason.

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                    • #25
                      Having said that, I checked and it turns out that they had tried twice before to pass this bill before getting it through in 2006. Just goes to show how the responses to terrorism invariably lead to bad laws and a repressive state.

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                      • #26
                        In the UK maybe, I have taken sharpies to bibles in school and nothing ever happened to me
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                          In the UK maybe, I have taken sharpies to bibles in school and nothing ever happened to me
                          Just out of idle curiosity. What does the phrase " I have taken sharpies to bibles " mean?
                          (i am not exactly familiar with US slang).

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Braindead View Post
                            Just out of idle curiosity. What does the phrase " I have taken sharpies to bibles " mean?
                            (i am not exactly familiar with US slang).
                            I ruined a bible with a sharpie. We were redacting it, as I recall.
                            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                            • #29
                              A sharpie is a marker.
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                              • #30
                                I admit it was one of the most tasteless things I have ever done but the only thing that happened to me was a teacher warned me that other kids might find it offensive and then let me get back to my sacrilege.
                                If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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