I hear that some very sick people in Florida are going to burn the Koran as some sort of anti-Islamic display. That really won't help us propagate the Gospel of Jesus to our Moslem neighbours. Why create stumbling blocks?
There are others who initiated book burnings. In 1933 the Nazis burnt books, by 1940 they were burning people. Not a happy precendent.
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Please don't call them sick, misguided, mistaken, but not sick. They say Islam is of the devil, you say that they are sick.
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James Michael-Smith has responded with an excellent letter. Perhaps a leter writing/email campaign modeled on his letter might be a way forward, otherwise thes people could trigger another wave of killings by Islam.
http://www.examiner.com/x-8276-Methodist-Examiner~y2010m7d26-Koranburning-church-leader-responds
For some reason the previous post removed the link - see above.
James Michael-Smith has got it spot on, and the reference to 1 Cor.14:20 is perfect: burning the Koran is not a Christian Spirit-led response, it is a very childish one.
We have often seen TV images of excited crowds burning the US flag; doing that really says something to them. Imagine what burning the Koran will say to that crowd. It is an inflammatory escalation, and about as far from following the example of Jesus as it is possible to get. This is selecting an even bigger stick with which to beat your opponent, rather than turning the other cheek and bearing the cross.
They do not do it in my name, and they certainly do not do it in Jesus' name, whatever they may say.
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