I have read the Dove World Outreach Center intends to burn copies of the Quran Sept. 11. This is profound ignorance, straight and simple, and it is hypocritical.
Has Christianity forgotten all of its centuries of untold violence and divisiveness? There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Quran. And how many millions of women did the Christian church massacre in Europe over several centuries because they were considered witches?
Such actions show religious doctrine does not give one a relationship with God. They are only belief structures, of which there are many, and their adherents can behave like cult followers as often as not.
Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna and others came and gave their beautiful teachings. It is people who formed religions around them and burried these lessons in muck.
Often, diamonds are taken from the coal. Religions do the reverse; they construct theological coal around the diamond of teaching.
And to use the word “dove” in the church’s name, considering it intends to burn another religion’s holy book, might be considered blasphemous by some Christians. After all, the descending dove is iconography depicting the baptism of Jesus — Christ being the embodiment of love and not book-burning hatred. And the dove is a universal symbol of peace. The church-goers should remember that fact.
