Terry Jones is the real deal

[Enrique]

Ginrich, Palin, Steve King, Michele Bachmann, Louie Gohmert, they all talk a good game. But who stopped the mosque? Pastor Terry Jones, that's who.

Did any of those people put up a sign saying "No Homo Mayor?" No, only Pastor Jones did.

That's because all those people are just Washington insiders. Pastor Terry Jones crawled out of the Florida swamps, which is the Real America. :patriot:

[burnsei sensei]

1. The real deal in stupid too.

Do you realize that he's endangered Americans further?
All he's done is kick a hornet's nest or even more accurate, a hive of African honeybees.
The man is just plain stupid.

[lapislzi]

8. Not stupid in the slightest.

Don't think for a minute that he doesn't know exactly what he's doing. He wants his name on a "holy" war, and he just might get it.

Eschatology at its finest and most juvenile.

[burnsei sensei]

12. Were it merely juvenile, I could forgive it.

He's not much of a humanist, is he?
Renaissance Humanism is all that redeems Christianity or any religion in my view.

[lapislzi]

16. Of course it's not merely juvenile.

He knows he's poking a bear with a cattle prod and getting his crazy ass church on TV. Crazy like a fox.

I always think that it's dangerous to assume someone is stupid merely because you can't wrap your head around the stupidity of their actions. Nobody ever lost a battle by OVERestimating the strength and intelligence of his enemy.

[Lint Head]

2. This is sarcasm I take it?

[SargeUNN]

3. if it isn't the OP

is mentally disturbed and I have read enough of their post to believe this is sarcasm.

[Historic NY]

4. don't you mean real a$$hole like the rest....

[Ron Green]

5. K&R. This is the truth.

All these weak-kneed posts asking about "sarcasm..." Huh!

The fact is that Real America is an ugly and fearful place just below the surface.

[hfojvt]

6. Well I will follow anybody who is a pastor

and named Jones.

Pour me a glass of coolaid, will you reverend?

[Winterblues]

7. Stopped the Mosque?????

How did you get such an idea?

[prolesunited]

9. You really crave attention, don't you?

[Enrique]

10. why so harsh?

what in my post would cause you to say that?

[Phlem]

11. WTF

He caused the dangerous situation in the first place.

I'd lay off whatever you've been smoking or drinking.

-p

[IndianaGreen]

13. Why is the media giving a platform to this incarnation of Jim Jones?

The man is mentally unstable and ran a cult in Germany. Why hasn't the US media picked up the Der Spiegel expose on Terry Jones?

US fundamentalist pastor Terry Jones, who wants to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, ran a church in the western German city of Cologne until last year when members of the congregation expelled him. Former members have spoken of his hate-filled sermons and insistence on "blind obedience."

Islamophobe's Past in Germany

Terry Jones Accused of 'Spiritual Abuse' at Cologne Church

By Yassin Musharbash and Dominik Peters

'Delusional Personality'

Former church members are still undergoing therapy as a result of "spiritual abuse," Schäfer said. According to Schäfer, Jones urged church members to beat their children with a rod and also taught "a distinctive demonology" and conducted brainwashing.

"Terry Jones appears to have a delusional personality," speculates Schäfer. When he came to Germany in the 1980s, Jones apparently considered Cologne "a city of Hell that was founded by Nero's mother," while he thought Germany was "a key country for the supposed Christian revival of Europe," Schäfer says.

Terry Jones used his powers of persuasion to expand the congregation. By the end, Schäfer estimates, it numbered between 800 and 1,000 people. They had to work in the so-called "Lisa Jones Houses," charitable institutions named after his first wife who has since died, under very poor conditions.

Increasingly Radical

Jones became increasingly radical as the years went by, former associates say. At one point he wanted to help a homosexual member to "pray away his sins." Later he began to increasingly target Islam in his sermons. A congregation member reported that some members were afraid to attend services because they expected to be attacked by Muslims. "Terry Jones has a talent for finding topical social issues and seizing on them for his own cause," says Schäfer.

Read more:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,716409,00.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. The mistake was that everyone has paid respect to this "pastor".

If they had just looked past this "pastor" thing they would have seen an otherwise homeless nitwit. Now imagine the god damn regret that they all have now that the bastard is making all kinds of new demands.

[blogslut]

15. Jones did not stop Park51

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100909/park51-leaders-no-intention-to-move-mosque-away-from-ground-zero/