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Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Israel
JERUSALEM: Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land.
Or Yehuda Deputy Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently entered a neighborhood in the predominantly religious town of 34,000 in central Israel, distributing hundreds of New Testaments and missionary material.
Originally posted by fiorano
books should not be burned..even the most ridiculous of them all.
they are all of some value.
Originally posted by whatukno
To qualify that this is not an act of violence by definition that no one was injured by the act is while technically correct is however flawed.
vi·o·lence (v-lns)
n.
1. Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing: crimes of violence.
2. The act or an instance of violent action or behavior.
3. Intensity or severity, as in natural phenomena; untamed force: the violence of a tornado.
4. Abusive or unjust exercise of power.
5. Abuse or injury to meaning, content, or intent: do violence to a text.
6. Vehemence of feeling or expression; fervor.
act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land.
Earlier this year, the teenage son of a prominent Christian missionary was seriously wounded when a package bomb delivered to the family's West Bank home went off in his hands.
Last year, arsonists burst into a Jerusalem church used by Messianic Jews and set the building on fire, raising suspicions that Jewish extremists were behind the attack. No one claimed responsibility, but the same church was burned down 25 years ago by ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists.
I wonder what kind of hubbub there'd be on this thread if it were Muslims burning the Torah.
Originally posted by mr. wildflowers
Well, I certainly can't say I agree with what the Jews were doing, but I absolutely support their right for free speech. If they want to burn the new testament, that's their right.
Originally posted by whatukno
It is the intention behind the act that makes it violent or not.
Originally posted by whatukno
Furthermore to reiterate #4 of the definition of the word violence they went around in cars with loudspeakers to round up the distributed works for the perpose of destroying them.
Originally posted by whatukno
To destroy your own copy of a book however is not a violent act because that is your personal property to do with as you wish.