{"id":967,"date":"2010-09-12T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/dont-burn-a-quran-day-in-review\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:38:00","slug":"dont-burn-a-quran-day-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/dont-burn-a-quran-day-in-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Burn a Qur&#8217;an Day in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s the estimated number of people who participated in \u201cDon\u2019t Burn A Qur\u2019an Day\u201d (most of whom are still continuing to observe it): Somewhere in the vicinity of 6,865,942,376 people refrained from burning Qur\u2019ans over the past 24 hours. This was a major global event! <\/p>\n<p>I brought a copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/koran00rodw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Qur\u2019an<\/a> with me to Sunday school today \u2013 or more precisely, Arberry\u2019s English translation. We spent some time\u00a0discussing Islam, differences between Islam and Christianity, and the possibility of expressing disagreement without engaging in acts of hate or malice.<\/p>\n<p>One person who skimmed the pages of the Qur\u2019an, never having held one before much less read it, was struck by all the familiar names they encountered.<\/p>\n<p>Next week we\u2019ll return to our study of the letter of James in the New Testament.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6560195791730091278?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the estimated number of people who participated in \u201cDon\u2019t Burn A Qur\u2019an Day\u201d (most of whom are still continuing to observe it): Somewhere in the vicinity of 6,865,942,376 people refrained from burning Qur\u2019ans over the past 24 hours. This was a major global event! I brought a copy of the Qur\u2019an with me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t Burn a Qur&#039;an Day in Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here&#039;s the estimated number of people who participated in &quot;Don&#039;t Burn A Qur&#039;an Day&quot; (most of whom are still continuing to observe it): Somewhere in the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/dont-burn-a-quran-day-in-review.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Don&#039;t Burn a Qur&#039;an Day in Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#039;s the estimated number of people who participated in &quot;Don&#039;t Burn A Qur&#039;an Day&quot; (most of whom are still continuing to observe it): Somewhere in the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/dont-burn-a-quran-day-in-review.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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