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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

“Bible or Koran – which burns best?”

Queensland lawyer Alex Stewart smokes pages from the Koran and Bible

Lawyer says “Bible smokes better than Koran” …

In the [Youtube video] clip, titled “Bible or Koran – which burns best?”, the professed atheist says burning religious books is no big deal and people need to get over it.

“It’s just a f—ing book,” he says.

Via Slashdot

Burning Holy Books: Some Fact Checking

Claim:
“How many Bibles have been burned in the Muslim world in the last nine years? None.”

Evidence:

From Putting tolerance in perspective.

Selling books again

I am once again selling books from my library. I shipped one today, getting $78 for it. Today I listed another 10 math, physics, and statistics books at Amazon.com. My pricing strategy is simple: For any given book my price is clearly the lowest. In a couple cases that still let me set a price in 3 digits. There is also a history book I want to sell, but I am giving colgaffneyis members a chance at it before going to Amazon.

Again there was a quantum mechanics text that, after some thought, decided I could not bear parting with. I wonder if it was the same book as back in 2005.