[ In response to the question "Would you burn a bible to save you and your familys life? If you absolutely had to would you?" ]
No, never, burn me and my family before burning the word of God.
Yes, bibles are burned that are old at some times. The question though, asks if I would do it to save or in exchange for, my family and myself.
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Nevermind that it's just a booooook. It's just ink on paper, regardless of what's in it. Even if you believe EVERY word in the bible, why wouldn't you sacrifice it to save your family? Couldn't you just go get another one?
People are stupid.
No, not that Bible! Here, burn Sally instead! Oh, wait, it's an original Gutenberg? Oh, ok, then, yeah burn the old pile o' crap.
Luck old Sally, eh?
If I was your kid, I'd personally light the fucking thing on fire.
So, you burn it because it's old(and is it not the Word of God any longer?), but not to save your family?. Makes no fucking sense.
Indeed.
Yes, bibles are burned that are old at some times.
Your point? Bibles are also burned because they're considered evil sometimes?
Good thinking, dmd. As you and your family are going to heaven when you die, why not take this idea to its ultimate conclusion? Burn yourself and your family instead of doing the dishes, washing the car or even opening your eyes in the morning.
Perhaps he's talking about his Family Bible.
That's the expensive leatherbound Bible you sign with your name and the names of your children, and then your children sign their children's names in it when they grow up, and you keep this book in the family for as many generations as you can. (If you're a Christian, I mean.)
The dime-store $5 paperback KJV it ain't.
@ Vampirehummingbird - excellent point. But of course, the Fundy can never see past their own opinions, so if there is an afterlife, I can imagine they'd drag themselves down into Hell through sheer ignorance.
Vampirehummingbird nails it. Their bible is their idol, no matter how you slice or dice it. Take their bible away and they just wander around aimlessly.
"No, never, burn me and my family before burning the word of God."
So you worship a book.
Isn't that idolatry?
It's a book.
Let me repeat: IT'S A BOOK.
It's not God. You can buy another.
You're choosing to save a book over the lives of your family.
No, when it comes out the other end it's just as valid as when it went in.
According to Robert W. Service, who ran out of rolling papers once, and found a use for it - "Your book makes a mighty lousy smoke."
OK, but what happens when the bible becomes possessed by demons? Do you burn it then, or stone it, or what?
That is, if you can capture it -- the covers grow into ghastly stinking bat wings, and it flaps around at shrill whistling speed, slinging its poison words like dark bird shit napalm...
Believe it. I saw it.
Scary...
"No. And I would desire to be the first to go.
There ARE people who hate us that bad, in attempts for us to renounce Jesus as our Savior.
"I will rather trust God to save me and my family. If He doesn't (for some reason), then we can always meet in heaven! Death is not the end of the story for the born-again Christian.
If 'burning the Bible' signifies denying the Lord, then I will not."
No, never, burn me and my family before burning the word of God.
... bragged the fundie, smug and confident in the knowledge that he will never be called upon to make that decision...
Mmmmm, priorities.
The Bible is a book, no more. If the message means something to you, well, it would be natural to be offended by the prospect of someone desecrating a Bible, but it really seems a very hard thing to sacrifice yourself for anything short of a consecrated Torah scroll, and even then possibly a tad over-the-top.
In fact, since the heirloom Bible isn't as common as it used to be, and since any Bible is trivially replaced in many countries, I really wouldn't get my knickers in a twist about it. (Unless the copy being burned held notes for my sermon or a research paper; then I'd be kind of pissed.)
Rhys:
Don't forget that without the burden of forced absolutes, we can take full advantage of situational ethics. Yes, burning a book is pretty high in the pyramid of secularist sin, but intentionally taking a life is at the very top. Nothing is more important than saving a life in the here and now.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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