While recording his insidious actions - can you believe that an intelligent 29 year old Australian lawyer based in Queensland has torn pages out of the Bible and Korean and then burnt them?
He then uploaded this stupid act to U Tube for the whole world to see.
Needless to say citing the shenanigans of the individual in question he has not impressed his employers. Accordingly his behaviour could have the tendency to back fire on him were and he has since been sent on leave of the more permanent variety.
The motivations of the person concerned remain questionable but one can only assume that he had performed this brainless act for no other reason other than to attract attention to himself.
Well at least in that sphere he has succeeded way beyond his wildest dreams as there are definite doubts as to his ability to ever obtain work in his chosen field again.
There may be some people of the Islamic faith that may have found his behaviour at little upsetting, but as a fundamentalist, if l am able to speak for other Christians, if his intentions were to offend Bible believing Christians he has also failed in that area to.
However what concerns me more, and a whole lot more, for this young man there is a lot more at stake here for him than simply losing his livelihood; there really are grave concerns for his spiritual well being and just where he is going to spend eternity.
He really did not know what he was doing when he set out to burn the pages of the Bible and l can only hope that the Lord is able to grant him forgiveness for his act of foolhardiness for he certainly needs forgiveness, and in bucket full's.
Accordingly, to anyone who reads this may you remember this stupid and impetuous young man in your prayers, for he certainly needs our prayers.
Here is how the world viewed the event from the Brisbane Times
Brisbane Atheist Burns Korean and Bible
A Brisbane university lawyer expects to be sacked after posting a video of himself burning the Koran and Bible online.
Queensland University of Technology employee Alex Stewart has taken leave from his non-academic position as a commercial contracts lawyer.
The university is investigating the video in which Mr Stewart appears to smoke marijuana rolled in pages from the religious texts, before rating which "burns better".
The homemade video was posted on video sharing website YouTube on Friday.
Widespread criticism of the clip led The Islamic Association of Australia this morning to call on Muslims to remain calm.
The Catholic Church, QUT and the Queensland Law Society also have condemned the clip.
The video followed international outrage at a firebrand US pastor who threatened to burn 200 Korans to mark the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Terry Jones was apparently persuaded to abandon the provocative ceremony by a promise to rethink plans to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero in New York.
Mr Stewart, an atheist, met QUT management this morning and agreed to take leave, a university spokeswoman said.
However, Mr Stewart fears he will not be allowed to return to the Brisbane campus.
"I'm screwed. I think I will lose my job over this. Damn it," he wrote on a website for Brisbane Atheists, of which he is an assistant organiser.
He wrote that the substance portrayed in the video was lawn clippings.
However, on the video he alluded to it being marijuana and pre-empted a police investigation.
"I probably won't appear on webcam again after the police come and arrest me," he says.
A spokeswoman this morning said police would not charge Mr Stewart.
"We haven't detected any criminal offences," the spokeswoman said.
During the 12-minute film Mr Stewart says he is performing an experiment to test whether the Islamic or Christian text is more conducive to burning.
He says people offended by the experiment are taking it "too seriously".
"It's just a f...ing book, who cares," Mr Stewart says.
"Like you can burn a flag and no one cares, people get over it so with respect to books like the Bible, the Koran, or whatever, just get over it."
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