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And Northern non-slave owners used it to justify NOT having slaves
People can twist just about anything to suit their needs
The 10 commandments says you need to treat servants that you own (aka slaves) correctly. No twisting needed on that. There other passages speaking of bible characters who owned slaves with no negative judgement of that fact and the value of slaves in trade. At the time the bible was written slave ownership was common and considered acceptable. Therefore it was not forbidden in the bible. And that had a big impact on slavery in America.
A simple commandment "man shall not own other men" would have prevented the suffering of millions or more people and made the protests today unnecessary.
I'm not--I said it may be your right to do so. But what is the significance of burning Bibles...that is the question. If you are having a bonfire of Bibles you purchased, I would assume it is because you are making a statement about Christianity.
I would assume every public destruction of an item - from blowing up disco records at Wrigley Field, to burning Lebron James jerseys in OH, to these knuckleheads burning Bibles in OR is meant to convey a message.
Big whoop.
As long as they aren't destroying someone else's property against the property owner's will, more power to them.
I guess the BLM thugs finally ran out of things to loot. All that's left are the book stores.
All the haters can come out and protest or riot and hurt people or damage property, and they will be protected and left alone. If anyone just shows up at one of the BLM protests, they are beyond the touch of the law.
I am sure it is, unless it is Democrat bounty from the lootings.
Can someone please answer the simple question - is burning books in the middle of the road while blocking traffic normally legal? Yes or no?
Is burning books normally considered liberal or illiberal?
I would assume burning things in the street is illegal. Not really germane to the discussion being had, but whatever.
Is burning something in protest liberal or illiberal? Dunno. Bra burning in the 60s seemed pretty liberal. Same with the burning of draft cards. Burning the flag? Depends on who's doing it, I would think. Vietnam protesters here were probably pretty liberal. Iranians burning it in Tehran? Probably more illiberal.
I would assume burning things in the street is illegal. Not really germane to the discussion being had, but whatever.
Is burning something in protest liberal or illiberal? Dunno. Bra burning in the 60s seemed pretty liberal. Same with the burning of draft cards. Burning the flag? Depends on who's doing it, I would think. Vietnam protesters here were probably pretty liberal. Iranians burning it in Tehran? Probably more illiberal.
It is perfectly germane that these are lawless people.
Burning a bra is not the same as Nazi-Democrat book burning in my mind.
Nazi-Democrat book burning is saying we don't tolerate diversity of thought.
We already have cancel culture being pushed by Democrats to ruin people's lives over differing thoughts now we are burning Ayn Rand's books in the middle of the street.
It they can burn a Bible. Than it is my Right to burn books too. Let me burn white fragility and how to be a. Anti racist and let's see how enraged these activists and the media will be.
did anybody actually go do this yesterday and broadcast it on Twitter?
It is perfectly germane that these are lawless people.
OK. So, it's the physical location of the burning of these Bibles that you're taking issue with, then? If so, I agree with you, they shouldn't be doing it in the middle of a public street.
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Burning a bra is not the same as Nazi-Democrat book burning in my mind.
Shocker.
Burning an item in protest is burning an item in protest, in my mind. Why should this be different?
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We already have cancel culture being pushed by Democrats to ruin people's lives over differing thoughts now we are burning Ayn Rand's books in the middle of the street.
Democrats have become illiberal.
Ayn Rand wrote the Bible? Huh, never heard of the "New Rand Version" of the Bible before. Neat.
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