Pastor Terry Jones Defends Quran Burning at Dove World Outreach Church
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA (LALATE) – Pastor Terry Jones is defending his Quran burning at Dove World Outreach Church as a message of “warning”. Yet Terry Jones now admits his “International Burn a Quran Day” may not be so popular as he thinks after Gen. David Petraeus, the commander in Afghanistan, to Glenn Beck denounced his scheduled 9/11 burning. Jones himself admits that as of Monday he’s already received at least 100 death threats and has to carry a .40 caliber pistol at all times.
Apparently Jones is not fearful of local ordinances either. His attorneys claim the First Amendment allows him to burn the Quran without a permit. But the same attorneys don’t explain why Jones applied for a permit in the first place, only to be denied by the local fire authority.
The Boston Herald claims he “has about 50 followers” and last year posted signs “Islam is of the Devil.” FBI agents have reportedly visited Jones to discuss his safety. Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American Islamic Relations said in a statement today “Whenever there’s a perception that America is somehow anti-Muslim, that harms our image and interests around the Islamic world.”
On his blog, Jones gives “Ten Reasons to Burn a Koran.” Among them, “Any religion which would profess anything other than this truth is of the devil. This is why we also take a stand against Islam, which teaches that Jesus is not the Son of God, therefore taking away the saving power of Jesus Christ and leading people straight to Hell. It is our vision to go around, to preach and to challenge, and to get the church involved and ready. We must go outside of the walls, and march for righteousness.”
The Church was founded in 1986 as a “total concept church for the rich, the poor, the young and the old … to stand up for righteousness and for the truth of the Bible.”
Rabbi Jonathan Siger told an audience of multiple faiths this weekend that “The Jews, particularly, are very familiar with book burnings. First they burn books, then they burn people.”
Glenn Beck denounced the burning as well, stating this weekend “It’s just like the Ground Zero mosque plan. Does this church have the right? Yes. Should they? No. And not because of the potential backlash or violence. Simply because it is wrong.”
The Pastor claims the burning is not a message of hate. But as Beck explains, “Burning the Koran is like burning the flag or the Bible. You can do it, but whose heart will you change by doing it? You will only harden the hearts of those who could be moved. None of those who are thinking about killing us will be affected, but our good Muslim friends and neighbors will be saddened. It makes the battle that they face inside their own communities even harder.”
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on September 7th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
To Terry Jones;
Didn’t the Christian brethren pass along the warning from GOD! Lloyd the Baptist communicated to all the Christian organizations and associations, apparently they didn’t think much of you to save your soul.
Heard last Christmas from Lloyd the Baptist in southern edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near El Macho, NM.
DON’T KILL THE MESSENGER!
Sermon from Lloyd the Baptist
Matthew 24:35-36
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth NO MAN, no, not the angels of heaven, but my FATHER ONLY”
Matthew 25:13
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the SON of man cometh”
REMEMBER those two Bible quotes. I’ll get back to THAT later…
I give thanks and praise to the Almighty GOD, the SON JESUS, and HOLY SPIRIT… I’ve just come back from my yearly Christmas pilgrimage into the Blood of Christ mountains. I walked out of the Sangre de Cristos with a MESSAGE from the SON. The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY is NOT happy…
Search your hearts and minds for the faith to BELIEVE what I tell you is TRUE. The WRATH of GOD is about to come down on those that displease the LORD. I’m bring a WARNING for CHRISTIANS, heed the WORD of the LORD or be punished for your ignorance…
I was baptized in HOLY SPIRIT and tell you NOW… the HOLY TRINITY is in NO WAY associated with ANY of the paranoid, delusional right-wing, moralists that congregate in America’s Evangelical Christian community. An angel of GOD, surrounded with the Holy Spirit, appeared to me near the mountain top at the Holy Hot Spring.
A terrifying vision was revealed to me… the suffering and degradation of a whole generation of good Christians who were led astray by FALSE PROPHETS. Ohhh can one even imagine the PAINFUL scene of so many Christians being cast into HELL?
(Lloyd weeping)
Basically decent, hardworking Americans who were convinced that GOD was their good friend and JESUS their personal savior. Only to find out… to REALIZE they were supporting policies that came from satan himself. Holy delusions that actually fooled millions of church goers into a belief system that PRAYS FOR WAR while PRAYING AGAINST HEALTH CARE for fellow Americans and the least of their Brothers/Sisters. 47 million of them… JESUS was a healer, right?
Christians allowed themselves to be turned away from Nature and this precious environment GOD created to meet ALL our needs. While their Corporate Masters used the air and water as SEWERS and ground to bury TOXIC WASTE… Pastors were taught to demonize or make fun of cultures that cherish Nature or the Sun. Science is sent to the back of the bus. So lost in their right-wing Christian vanity… they consider themselves more intelligent than the world’s top climate scientists.
Instead of feeding the starving human beings of the world… Christians allowed their tax dollars to be used to PROVIDE WEAPONS instead. How dare you BELIEVE that JESUS was on the same side as the WAR PROFITEERS, ARMS DEALERS!
JESUS says “…satan thrives on chaos, suffering, conflict, war, destroying nature, etc. and those who PROFIT from THAT are his followers”
Back in the USA 40+MILLION Americans are struggling below the poverty level but Conservative Christian priorities are about tax cuts for the RICH and tax deductible status for churches connected to their Evangelical Associations. Listening to Pat Robertson speak out against Wall St. reform and regulation, one could get the idea these type Christians would have defended the “money changers” from JESUS.
Charity is NOT for love’s sake but a MISSION to spread their warped belief system and hatred of gays/lesbians to the poor peoples of the world.
JESUS says Christians are not using the good brain cells the FATHER blessed them with. They ignored Bible quotes above, while listening to authors of the FICTIONAL “Left Behind” books (OR John Nelson Darby) ARE YOU MORoNS CRAZY? Jumping for joy that the end is near and JESUS is on his way to take them to paradise in the clouds.
The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY says Christians will be STOPPED before they give the Neo-Cons/Republican Party enough wealth and power to hurry along Armageddon. Only GOD knows the time of Revelations prophecies, those that tell you different are false prophets leading you on the PATH TO HELL! The WRATH of GOD will soon be upon you unless YOU REPENT! Show humility and ask forgiveness for your FOOLISHNESS, LOW GRADE THOUGHT PROCESSES and SINS of the past.
After December 27, 2009 if you do not turn from the wicked ways… the very words from Christian mouths will be a plague on their daily lives. If they cast stones, they will be shown and exposed as hypocrites… If they curse their fellow man/woman the curse will come back at them. If they fail to look out for the poor, jobless, homeless, starving, physically/mentally ill or any other of the least of your brothers/sisters then fortunes will be lost and your children will know of these afflictions.
In the name of father GOD, JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT… So it is written, so shall it be DONE! Through the blessed mercy of JESUS CHRIST you been given this WARNING and last chance… What you do with it is up to YOU!
AMEN…
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on September 8th, 2010 at 5:26 am
But for all the death threats our reverend has allegedly received, he shows little sign of putting out the bonfire that has surely caught the attention of those entities who would stop to show the Reverend that two can play with ‘no return upon sale’ match sticks. Which begs the question does Reverend Jones really just want to end up as a martyr?