[lit-ideas] Re: I get 72... raisins?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:44:39 -0400
I think Mike's point is that peeing on Jesus is worse than torturing
someone to death. Is it?
> [Original Message]
> From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/16/2005 10:38:08 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: I get 72... raisins?
>
> Mike Geary wrote:
>
> >... No riots over Abu Graib or Guantanamo. But tear a page from a "holy
book" of which there are a 100 million copies and everyone goes crazy.
> >
>
> I like a term Huston Smith invented in THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS. He said
> that for Muslims, the Quran is God "inlibriate" much the way Christians
> would say that Jesus is God "incarnate." One may disagree with either
> of these, or both, but one must understand the depth of the belief in
> order to deal with either. Desecrating a consecrated host for Catholics
> by defecating on it, or peeing on Jesus, would feel the same to
> Christians as flushing a copy of the Quran would feel to Muslims.
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