Lady Checkmate's headline: "Alt-left Insanity: David Buckel, gay rights lawyer, burns himself to death in protest"
(cut and pasted from Fox News, link here: David Buckel, prominent gay rights lawyer, burns himself to death in New York to protest global warming )
He has my vote for Donkey of the Week. I just can't mourn people like this. He burned here, now he is burning there. "Good riddance" is the best I can muster.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
Thích Quang Ðuc; 189711 June 1963, born Lâm Van Túc), was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quang Ðuc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Ðình Diem . Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely across the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diem government. John F. Kennedy said in reference to a photograph of Ðuc on fire, "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one." Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the monk's death
Thich Quang Ðuc's heart survived his sacrifice: it was impossible to burn, even by cremation. There's a message there: and in more ways than one.
The most compassionate of hearts are impossible to destroy: even in the hottest of fires.
What that Buddhist monk did: and the ramifications of his sacrifice. Also, Martyrs .
You cannot kill an idea . Just ask Malala Yousafzai: and she has a Nobel Peace Prize.
Strange that no fundie Christain has ever been awarded one: certainly one with your attitude. Now ask yourself why .
I think someone said this on this site a long time ago, but since she talks so much about the "alt-left", I'd like to know what she thinks the "mainstream left" is.
And, I gotta say, "good riddance" doesn't really seem like a Christ-like sentiment...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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