Burning the book of Mormon

[millertime24 8]

I live in UT and if you dont already know, the vast majority of the population out here is mormon. Would I be within my constitutional rights to burn this book here? Methinks I would get convicted with a charge of inciting a riot. Anywho what are your thoughts on burning a book of mormon in SLC?

Muff #5048

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I think unless the courts could show your expression would always result in "immediate lawless action" Texas v. Johnson (1989) would have you covered.

Not saying it's a good idea, but the 1A has your back.

Peace, love and hoppiness

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I don't give a fuck.

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I don't give a fuck.

copyright infringement
plagiarism !

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I don't give a fuck.

I was going to say the same thing.

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I don't give a fuck.

I was going to say the same thing.

You don't have a potty mouth.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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I don't give a fuck.

I was going to say the same thing.

You don't have a potty mouth.

2 disadvantages to potty mouth
you have to eat with it
you have to kiss your mom with it !

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2 disadvantages to potty mouth
you have to eat with it
you have to kiss your mom with it !

Still, the advantages of being able to use the full vocabulary rather than the dishonesty of euphemisms is worth it.

Mostly because they're just fuckin' words buddy. It's not actually shit.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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you could try 'burning' a favorite wife.

Those mor(m)ons are as whacked out as the fraudulent priest.

fancy haveing 5+ wives...

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

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you could try 'burning' a favorite wife.

Those mor(m)ons are as whacked out as the fraudulent priest.

fancy haveing 5+ wives...

That's a lot of Pussy.

Could you please show us where in the last time a burning of a wife has been done in the name of Jesus by the mormons. I searched, but I couldn't come up with anything this century.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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It may be your right, but I would find it offensive. I'm not a Mormom but respect that to those who are the Book of Mormon s a sacred script, why would anyone want to burn any book? Let alone one that people believe to be sacred.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I live in UT and if you dont already know, the vast majority of the population out here is mormon. Would I be within my constitutional rights to burn this book here? Methinks I would get convicted with a charge of inciting a riot. Anywho what are your thoughts on burning a book of mormon in SLC?

I doubt any Mormon would care.
Have a conversation about burning garments, however...you'd likely get a different response (locally).

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It may be your right, but I would find it offensive. I'm not a Mormom but respect that to those who are the Book of Mormon s a sacred script, why would anyone want to burn any book? Let alone one that people believe to be sacred.

. . . to generate a reaction.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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It may be your right, but I would find it offensive. I'm not a Mormom but respect that to those who are the Book of Mormon s a sacred script, why would anyone want to burn any book? Let alone one that people believe to be sacred.

Sacred script? The outpourings of a convicted swindler, which pins the "plagiarism meter" when subjected to a style comparison against the KJV?

EVERY verifiable statement made in the Book of Mormon is entirely false. Native Americans do not have a drop of Hebrew blood, the stated locations of cities with claimed populations of hundreds of thousands reveal no hint of habitation before the arrival of Europeans, and so forth.

The Book of Mormon is sacred to the same extent that Bernie Madoff is a financial genius. It is the most definitive collection of baseless nonsense to come along - at least until "Dianetics" showed up.

The Book of Mormon is significantly less holy than the phone book. Get over it.

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Are you implying any religious text holds up to the strict scrutiny of reality?

Peace, love and hoppiness

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Brilliant post!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

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Are you implying any religious text holds up to the strict scrutiny of reality?

In a sense, yes.

During Purim we read the Magilla, which purports to relate experiences during the Babylonian Exile.

However, independent documentation of the era makes no reference to the "Queen" Esther, nor of Hamen and so forth.

Thus, is the Book of Esther factually accurate? Not bloody likely. Does it have some utility from an historical perspective? Yes. It's also a good excuse to overeat (like most of our better holidays - to include Shabbat).

Many texts of the Bronze age follow a similar format - inexact accounts with supernatural influence and a poetic use of numbers - but there is much valid information that can be gleaned from the Iliad or the Odyssey, for example.

If you buy into the paternal lineage of Theseus to include Poseidon, you don't get it. EVERYBODY was the son/daughter of the diety du jour in that day and age, if they were important enough to be a protagonist.

If we get away from the supernatural hokum, and get used to the fact that the accounts are in broad strokes, with very local agenda, there is something to be gained from many old texts deemed "religious" in this day and age.

If you want to take much of any of it literally, you are free to do so. Religion is, by its very nature, a disease of denial - of reality in particular - and I am not sure that reality is everyone's cup of tea in the first place. Much reality is nasty, so a warm, fuzzy fantasy may look good from that standpoint.

Whatever you think, we are all doomed, so it does not make much difference in the long run whether or what you believe.

I, for one, am a skeptic. Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo cogito sum and all that.


BSBD,

Winsor

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I can dig that.

Peace, love and hoppiness

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i think therefore i am
ergo therefore
cogito
i think
dubito
i question ?

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It may be your right, but I would find it offensive. I'm not a Mormom but respect that to those who are the Book of Mormon s a sacred script, why would anyone want to burn any book? Let alone one that people believe to be sacred.

Sacred script? The outpourings of a convicted swindler, which pins the "plagiarism meter" when subjected to a style comparison against the KJV?

EVERY verifiable statement made in the Book of Mormon is entirely false. Native Americans do not have a drop of Hebrew blood, the stated locations of cities with claimed populations of hundreds of thousands reveal no hint of habitation before the arrival of Europeans, and so forth.

The Book of Mormon is sacred to the same extent that Bernie Madoff is a financial genius. It is the most definitive collection of baseless nonsense to come along - at least until "Dianetics" showed up.

The Book of Mormon is significantly less holy than the phone book. Get over it.

to those who are Mormon, the Book of Mormon s a sacred script. I on the other hand am not a Mormon and so to me its not a sacred script, but to burn it or any other book (except Harry Potter of course) is not acceptable behaviour as far as I'm concerned.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Who is one to say one piece of religious text is of more importance or validity than another.

Christian scriptures, Qur`an, Scientology teachings, book of Mormon- they're all the same in my eyes. Only difference being that some are older than others. But at one stage all religious text was new and looked at as crazy by people of that time.

BUT, I think one is free to burn whatever they so God damn please. We can't start regulating things depending on how people take offence to it.

If you want to burn a book go ahead. It's a book, you have the right to do with it as you please. Just as one should have the right to burn a flag.

If you're one who gets all butthurt over someone disrespecting your religion then you're the one with the problem, not them. It's not THEIR religion, they should have no obligation to respect it in any way.

All religions are equally as retarded.

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to those who are Mormon, the Book of Mormon s a sacred script.

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You reinforced my point that any book, regardless of nature has equal rights to be burned as the next. And that it's value depends entirely on an individual and that there is no line when it comes to the freedom involved in burning a book.

Either you can support the freedom to burn any book regardless of it's significance or you can go against burning any book that may be offensive to anyone. You can include comic books into that if you want.

Otherwise one just has double standards.

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You reinforced my point that any book, regardless of nature has equal rights to be burned as the next. And that it's value depends entirely on an individual and that there is no line when it comes to the freedom involved in burning a book.

Either you can support the freedom to burn any book regardless of it's significance or you can go against burning any book that may be offensive to anyone. You can include comic books into that if you want.

Otherwise one just has double standards.

Though I support the freedom to burn books in principle, I find the practice repugnant. Putting libraries to the torch is the hallmark of the unenlightened conqueror.

Repellent though I may find Dianetics, the Book of Mormon, the Koran or the Christian Scriptures, actually burning them does more to validate them than anything.

The Tanakh is a different issue altogether, being but the collected folklore of a big, dysfunctional family. It was not prepared for universal consumption, and those outside the family really don't get it.

If something requires belief to be taken into serious consideration, it is not deserving of such. Ridicule is the appropriate response.


BSBD,

Winsor

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