U.S. Military Burns Bibles In Afghanistan

You know what else we burn? I got there before the war started and was there during...Before bases are established we use 4 hole burnouts..look em up..we defecated and urinate into a half and oil drum full of kerosene..then when its full its the new guys job to sit and stir it while it burns..sounds fun huh? Plus we have huge pits that we throw all of our trash in and the dead dogs and everything else...it was great waking up every morning to the smell of that..I'll take the folgers any day...

...than actual living breathing infidels and their spawn.

Most "christians" are amoral slugs who care more about empty ritual and paperback mythologies, even if they're printed in languages that they can't even read, than they care about real people.

Perhaps I have a skewed view, but fewer than ten per cent of the "christians" of my acquaintance have actually read their so-called sacred text. If scholarship were salvation, I would be saved and they would be condemned. But of course, having read the rules, I know that neither scholarship nor "good works" win one a ticket to paradise.

in two Afghan languages and I agree they could have been sent back for anyone that reads those languages instead of being burned.
Our troops are free to worship amongst themselves but it IS against military rules to preach or spread religious material in an occupied country.

I would love to see Christian outrage over the burning of innocent civilians instead of being outraged over the bibles (which they should know was against military rules before sending them.)

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"I truly wish that real life would no longer surpass the worst excesses of my nightmarish imaginings... Arthur Silber **

They're just books...paper with words on it..nothing more nothing less...would probably make for good campfire...kumbaya

ahh they are just supposed tonbe over there killing them correct?

"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson

I am more concerned about the return of my money than the return on my money. --Mark Twain

When they aren't on duty aren't they free? Should they not be allowed to do whatever they want on their own time?

This is the same sort of logic (no pun intended) that says that "terrorist" don't have Constitutional rights.

If we truly believe that rights and liberty doesn't come from government but are natural rights, then what authority does the government have to dictate what they do in their personal life/time, any more than they have the right to to tell a guy he can't stand on a public street corner and talk about the dewi-decimal system?

We own ourselves, the government doesn't own us. They think they do, but they don't. This, to me, sets a dangerous precedent, it further entrenches the concept of the government gives us rights, rather than our rights are natural.

If we as people don't have the "right" to interact with others, then what do we have?

To use the argument that this would cause them to be offended and fight us, is absurd. They are fighting us to get us the heck off of their land, they are going to keep fighting us till we leave. They are offended that our government has invaded, occupied and killed them.

If these soldiers meet up with someone who isn't shooting at them, and give them a Bible, a comic book, a muffin, or hair drier, to think that they would then start to fight them even more is silly.

It just falls into the underlying propaganda that these people are sub-human, this is the propaganda that our government has been pushing for years without coming out and saying it.

They imply this by giving all the crazy reasons they are fighting, by labeling them with crazy names, by holding them without trial, by creating special courts that are sure to condemn them. By saying that they are not eligible to receive the same natural rights that we supposedly have, just because they aren't american citizens.

So instead of maintaining that all men have the right to govern themselves, the government says that the "insurgents" , "the terrorist", etc. are less than human and don't have these rights.

And, now yet another precedent has been set that US citizens don't even have these natural rights that were specifically mentioned by our Declaration of Independence and supposedly guaranteed not to be infringed by our Constitution.

"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me