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May 19, 2005

Confused Americans for Truth - Bible Shredding

by Ferdinand T Cat

Over at CNS News there is an interesting article (cited on Townhall C-Log) in which it is alleged that Saudi Arabian customs routinely confiscates and shreds Christian Bibles. The article seeks to counterpoint Bible-shredding to the controversy surrounding Koran-flushing.

The Koran is a vastly different thing from the Christian Bible. While the Bible is something more or less assembled from disparate documents by a succession of translaters and church officials, the Koran is the direct result of a divine relevation to Mohammed. As a result, it is not just a learning tool, it is a holy object, like a Christian cross or crucifix. This means that while it is offensive, the Bible-shredding practice (if it is indeed still going on) is an assault on freedom of speech, not a religious violation. As far as I know, the only government agency world-wide that supports desecration of a crucifix is the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.

Respectfully submitted

Ferdinand T. Cat


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While our nation continues down the destructive path of assiduous secularization and the relentless unabated demonization of Christianity, these words will be interpreted and seen by the Muslim world as our nation's acquiescence to the superiority of Islam. That our government would place Islam in such high regard and elevate it upon of pedestal of reverence while we give government grants to individuals so that they may desecrate the Christian faith only strenghens the hand of militant Islam.


Posted by: LHM at May 19, 2005 3:37 PM

That would be unfortunate. However, I'm fairly certain the policy of the Bush administration is to discourage federal funding of religious desecration in general, whether it be art OR interrogation.


Posted by: Ferdy [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 19, 2005 5:33 PM

While the Bible has suffered more translations than... language, there are still those who believe the Bible to be the divinely-inspired indirectly-written Word of God, not really that different from the Koran... Just a thought :).

As for what type of violation this is, I am going to have to disagree with you over this being a religious assault... Whether or not this object (being the Bible) is divinely inspired or not, it is still very much a holy object, in that it contains the verbatim (or at least as close as we can get) word of a religion's God.

Now, if Saudi Arabia does this... I honestly do not care. Their country, their rules. I know that my uncle could not take any manner of any kind of Christian paraphernalia into Quatar when he went over there.... and they really did search his luggage to check.

Anywise, my (now that I look at it, somewhat pointless) two cents...


Posted by: Linoge [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 19, 2005 6:06 PM

"Now, if Saudi Arabia does this... I honestly do not care. Their country, their rules. I know that my uncle could not take any manner of any kind of Christian paraphernalia into Quatar when he went over there.... and they really did search his luggage to check"

That sounds very humiliating does it not?


Posted by: LHM at May 19, 2005 10:57 PM

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