Burn a Koran day
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So he's doing this book burning to highlight the fact that Islam is intolerant of other religions ?
Religious people never have any sense of irony, do they ?
If they did then they'd see their arbitrary fairytale was as unlikely as any other and come to their senses. To understand irony is the be able to hold 2 ideas in mind at once, if you are religious, you are deluded - you cannot hold the ideas of your religion and think critically at the same time - you have 2 distinct modes of operation, truth and Truth, and you can never combine the 2, you can never break the compartmentalization that protects your religious 'belief' from your rational mind, no matter whatever ever sophistry you undertake where you try to look like a rational person, a 'christian scientist' or set up a false dichotomy whereby you fill in gaps in your rational understanding of the world with your religion. Humour, irony, parody, mockery - all these are far more powerful tools at destroying the veil of religious thought than any other religion, hence the terribly furor over the Danish cartoons. Burning a religious book will have precisely no effect other than making people who already hate you shout it even louder and make you look like a petulant child.