Much ado has been made about how Muslims overseas have been burning American flags in protest of American assholery towards Islam these last couple of months.
I say ‘let ‘em burn it’ because it doesn’t matter. America has a much more important item in it’s possession. It’s called the constitution. And today is it’s ‘birthday’.
Some people would do well to spend some time today actually reading it. We (and they) can burn as many flags as we want as long as our constitution remains intact because that flag would mean nothing without it.
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Bravo. The best response to stupid claims of sacred texts is to demonstrate that we don’t hold *any* text to be sacred.
Burn copies of the constitution of your hated country. Burn copies of its flag. Burn copies of the works of Robert Green Ingersoll and Christopher Hitchens and Charles Darwin, see if we care. The ideas in them are not sacred; they are valued because they are open to robust criticism and survive regardless.
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