Of more concern to me, frankly, is that most so-called Christians have never read books they want to ban/burn. Banning and burning are kissing cousins.

I have a basic distrust of books that are prompted by writers' individual talks with The Creator. That distrust extends to The Book of Mormon, The Koran, The Bible. At various times I have had discussions with proponents of each and always come away wondering what kind of dope they were smoking.

I dislike fanatics regardless their religious affiliation. A LDS pair and I got into it with the "it was revealed" horse shit. I ended that conversation a while later by saying, "It was just revealed to me that you're wasting my time. Have a nice evening." Truthfully, I was more POed that some 'elder' (who was about twenty-five years old) thought me stupid enough to buy into that stuff. A doctor I knew who was educated in Egypt told me why Muslims didn't eat pork. I asked why, if The Creator really meant it, He allowed it under certain circumstance, such as mentioned at the end of passage 5:4 in his holy book. What I got back was "Who are we to question the will of The Creator (he said Allah)?" He had me there. Observant Jews will not eat pork (Leviticus and Deuteronomy (and Genesis)), but some stretch it by eating in restaurants that aren't kosher. A Jewish friend and I got into that! And of course the Christians who are equally restricted by their holy book can rationalize it all so blithely by cherry picking: "Well, God meant the Jews, not US."

I don't really think that people who follow religions do so because they are evil, but some religious leaders are evil personified, and if in our ignorance we follow them, we in turn become evil. Such as those who listen to and believe the words of people like 'Pastors' Wayne Sapp and Terry Jones. The dumb shits in Afghanistan and Pakistan should take out their wrath on them. Talk about stupid, and talk about evil!

imo