I am not a Christian, but my view on Christianity changed to that off great respect when I read the bible, thought about it, and read it again... Mostly because I feel like the greater number of those who call themselves Christian don't understand their own religion. That the books of the bible are not meant to be a narrative about the life o an actual person; but rather a story about the personification of the logos - a philosophical idea dating back to Greece. Jesus taught people to reject their beliefs, to turn against that which they took for absolute truth. Jesus himself is a character who personified the ideas which lead to the logos (similar to Buddhist Nirvana), he was not an actual person, but the result of the minds of some very wise men. Too bad only 30 books of more than 300 remain.

Christianity is a religion of love, love is what remains when belief is stripped away.

These pastors in Florida, they are not true Christians; hate mongering is something that grinds right against he core of what it means to be Christian.

So I'm hearing that book burning might be back on again.

 Read about it on USA Today.

There are examples found in scripture where Isreal destroy and burn up idols / false gods. Christianity and Islam can not be compatible because of where both stand on the person of Christ.  The reason why christians should not go around burning korans is this draws attention away from glorifying  Christ not because of tolerant or intolerant.  In America Christianity seems to have lost it meaning. It's true chrsitians are not  suppose to be in a physical war with Islam but no doubt according to scripture they are in a spiritual war against them.

lol you're making things up. Gnosticism was rejected by the Bible authors themselves (John and Paul) and Christian Gnosticism was practically erased already in the 2nd century AD.

Also how can anyone misunderstand the Bible so badly? The words of Jesus have lots of symbolism and aren't always easy to interpret but the Bible narrative itself is very concrete and down-to earth and clearly depicts real life events.

If you think child pornography doesn't directly harm anyone, you might want to see someone. That's a strange position to take on that subject. Sure, looking at it doesn't. But to look at it, it had to be created. Nothing bad had to happen in order for this man to have a book and a match.

I think what people need to focus on with respect to possible violence, is the people who would cause the violence, and why they would cause it.

The problem is not that 50 morons somewhere want to burn a stack of papers. The problem is that means so much to someone, they would kill over it. 

Your idea to bring peace to with the Western World and Islam is to make sure every one of the 300 million Americans walk on eggshells, and cater to the most violent of a religion?

Fuck that. I say that man, and every other American, has the freedom to exercise there rights, and if it pisses someone else off enough for them to inflict violence, the solution is to fix whomever is violent.

I don't mean to sound rude or anything. But I don't see why this is such a big deal. It's one lousy book. There are tons of them, does this really need to get out of hand? It's so stupid. There are more important issues in the world over the burning of a book.

Kasz, he has a point that you have not given one iota of evidence that a mosque would really trigger such a reaction in many of the 9/11 PTSD sufferers.  It does seem like kind of an indirect thing to me, although I'm no expert on PTSD. 

(planes crashing into office building which is destroyed-->Muslim terrorists-->Islam in general-->Muslim architecture)

I kind of agree here.

Only thing that I could say where this could be an issue, is for the victims that visit the memorial to come out and see a big "we stuck it to you" structure down the street (I hear the Center is going to be 12 stories tall, and visible from the site).

So, there is a chance that the building could negate an area where people could visit to try and get closer.

I think that's a weak argument, but I am also not a victim looking for closer. My opinion is:
American victims of 911 > foreign investors who want to put a mosque next to it.

Of course its no coincidence, it's a basic power play. America and the Iranian Reformists have the same vested interest against Ahmadinejad and the Conservatives.

In the 90's, America was viewed favorably by some radical Islamists: we helped them shoot the Soviets, and we saved the Bosnian Muslims from the Serbs. Its all a matter of perception.

Can you link me to one?