Bible Burning
I hear people trying to make something of American soldiers burning some confiscated Bibles in Afghanistan last year since burning things is cool again. Actually the burning of the Bibles makes sense to me. Even a hint of proselytizing in Afghanistan is one of the worst things with which our soldiers could be connected. Burning sacred objects like Bibles when they are not needed is what the Catholic church requires out of respect. The directive is that if it's been blessed, and you have to dispose of it, it must be burned or buried. If it hasn't been blessed, you can just throw it away, it's just a thing.
I don't know what other religions require, but to me this was a sensitive, albeit somewhat creepy, act out of respect for the Muslims of the region. Ground zero Mosque supporters might also want to take note of the sensitivity exercised by the Carmelite Nuns who moved their entire convent further away from Auschwitz when some raised the fear of proselytizing near this "ground zero" for Jews, although many Catholics died at Auschwitz like St. Maximilian Kolbe. But actually I just threw that in so I could post this cool stained glass picture of the Saint.
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May '10
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A year or two ago, Ebay allowed the sale of consecrated hosts. Nobody seemed to care. For all I know, it still occurs, but I refuse to use Ebay for that reason. They forbid the sale of tribal holy items, just not Catholic holy items.
Jul '10
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Personally, I'm planning on burning the entire VHS library of "Cheers".
Let others read into that what they may.
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they had a cashed check signed by Padre Pio also. I wanted it, but it's a sin. :( So I bought more glass blown poodles to add to my collection.
Edited on Sep 11, 2010 at 10:19pmAug '10
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Good move Aaron. There are additional reasons that I have never used eBay. But, Joe, that is a nice angle on the burning of Bibles. Besides, even when the intended message is an insult, I have always been impressed with people that that can take it for a long time. I say a "long time," but not necessarily indefinitely. Yeah Fr. Kolbe, but yeah Allied Forces. At some point a culture war must be recognized as having been instigated by the other side, that war must be fought, and one side must win decisively. We are fighting wars on two fronts. The one was started by the Left, Hollywood and schlumpy academics. The other, partly in response to the former, are responding to the anti-Western, anti-Christian decadence which they like to call Western, Christian decadence. Then as a further deflection just to keep everybody riled up and confused, both of our opponents say it's about Israel. Whatever.
Jun '10
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The Bibles tended to confirm a pernicious stereotype about American soldiers. That was the problem with those Bibles, that were printed in an Afghan language. The people that sent them said they were only for Afghans that asked for them, but no Afghan Muslim was likely to believe that. I remember a black comedian saying that the cruelest thing that white racists ever did to him, personally, was shame him out of putting one of those big juicy 30-lb watermelons in his shopping cart. He loved watermelon, but couldn't bring himself to do it because he didn't want to confirm any racist stereotypes about blacks--not that one anyway.
Jun '10
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The priest that presided over our wedding Mass had with him a lock of Padre Pio's beard hair.....now that's a first class relic!
...we're also reserving Maximilian Kolbe for our first son.....his life is astounding.
Edited on Sep 11, 2010 at 7:59pmJul '10
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Joe Escalante
they had a cashed check signed by Padre Pio also. I wanted it, but it's a sin. :( So I bought more glass blown poodles to ad to my collection. · Sep 11 at 7:50pm
So you're the clown I'm always bidding against!
What a coincidence!
I just found out recently that I've been in constant bidding wars against Peter Robinson for vintage Howdy Doodie lunch boxes.
Small world.
May '10
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Kenneth: Personally, I'm planning on burning the entire VHS library of "Cheers".
Let others read into that what they may. · Sep 11 at 7:49pm
Alright. That does it. I'm adding you to my "Following" list. So there.
Jul '10
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FeliciaB
Kenneth: Personally, I'm planning on burning the entire VHS library of "Cheers".
Let others read into that what they may. · Sep 11 at 7:49pm
Alright. That does it. I'm adding you to my "Following" list. So there. · Sep 11 at 10:01pm
You're a gutsy little lady.
A bit self-absorbed, but spunky.
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My wife and I are going to Poland in October to check out the Kolbe, St. Faustina, J.P. II, and Black Madonna sites, etc. Poland: "so hot right now" on the Catholic scene.
May '10
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Please. Those Bibles could just as easily been collected by the Military and donated to some organization for use in a part of the world that is not controlled by an insane sociopolitical construct masquerading as a religion. Notice that in all the hoopla about burning Korans, no one seems to be criticizing the blood thirsty reaction of the Moslems, no one in the Military seemed to be concerned that inraged Christians around the world will riot and kill because of burned Bibles. We refuse to face the fact of what we in the West are dealing with in Islam. And ignoring reality is a sign of our collective insanity.
Aug '10
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Exaaaaactly. One side must win. The other must lose. I had one of those delightful coincidences during prayers this morning. I have settled on one of those One-year Bibles. That mix-it-up format with a dated selection as a place holder gives me a sense of accomplishment, security and progress that is robust against the occasional missed day. "I'll get it next year!"--I comfort myself and press on the following day. Anyway, yesterday (9/11) and today's readings have involved passages from Isaiah 8-11: "...[D]o not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod...my wrath will be directed toward their destruction." Then, a fine book by Fr. Drexelius [German] A.D. 1630, Heliotropium, is my spiritual reading and I also read in reference to Isaiah, "But when I have chastened My people by the Assyrians, then woe to this rod! Woe to the Assyrians! For as the instrument of my anger I will cast them into the fire." I have no doubt that American frivolity and decadence will likewise be chastened by the rod—the rod of Islam.
Edited on Sep 12, 2010 at 8:59am