re: #79 Gus 802

Well if we’re going to use a left-wing/right-wing model here than how can a right-wing person say it’s OK to desecrate the Koran as an act of religious and/or political liberty yet at the same time say it’s NOT OK to desecrate the Crucifix?

But that’s not entirely the whole story of course because you will find plenty of left-wing atheists that support the burning of Korans.

IOW, we only find it acceptable when the desecration is done on a symbol that represents an ideology we despise.

Or it could be, at least in the case of atheists, that we’re trying to show the symbol is just an idea, not something concrete with a value of its own. There is no way to desecrate something that is intrinsically valueless.