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El Pinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 11:45 AM
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23. It's not Holy. It is apparently holey - now.
It's just a bunch of papers bound together, just like a bible or a talmud or a sutra. Just because various superstitious people call a stack of papers "holy" doesn't make it so.

I wonder how long supposedly objective journalists will continue to humor the superstitious by referring to their various talismans and texts as "holy" without at least quotation marks or saying "the book held to be holy by followers of Islam".

It's not holy to me - there is no such thing as a holy book.
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