I don’t know about you, but I have little patience with people of any religious persuasion who claim that what they are about to do originated from a directive (or was it merely a suggestion?) received directly from God. I don’t mean to trivialize anyone’s faith conviction, but I have yet to find someone who has discovered a direct communications connection to the Almighty, especially when it comes to burning holy books.
Intelligent, faithful mystics have for centuries spent day after day in quiet contemplation and meditation trying to open their souls to the message of the Creator – it’s not an easy task, and certainly not one with any guaranteed results. So don’t believe, much less pay any attention, to any charlatan with questionable credentials who comes along and tells you that he has found the key.
And certainly not when that message is about burning somebody else’s holy book.
Pastor Terry Jones of the unaffiliated 50-member Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida may think otherwise. From all reports, it seems that God wants him to go ahead and make a statement by burning a bunch of Qurans on Saturday, the anniversary of 9/11.
What bugs me about that, and what is just as bad, is the laser-like focus on this situation by the national media which should simply turn the lights out on this guy and take him off the international stage. From the media coverage of this person, you’d think that Pastor Jones is a prominent mega-church leader who is about to start a bonfire with Qurans as the fuel.
This guy is simply not worth the attention.
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