Posted on 09/08/2010 2:20:52 PM PDT by Binstence
SEPTEMBER 8--The Florida pastor who is planning to burn a pile of Korans this weekend runs a church that has established a variety of cult-like rules for individuals studying to become ministers, according to the group’s “rulebook.”
The Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC), headed by Islam-hating Rev. Terry Jones, has been widely denounced for its September 11 bonfire plans. The tiny Gainesville church is headed by Jones and his wife Sylvia, a co-pastor.
The DWOC’s “Academy Rulebook,” a copy of which you’ll find here, was created in November 2007 by Sylvia Jones. The document, which details the standards to which a prospective DWOC minister must adhere, addresses topics such as behavior, study, and communication. It is also filled with the kind of creepy directions that are often associated with cults.
For instance, students are directed to cut off most contact with family members. “Family occasions like wedding, funerals or Birthdays are no exception to this rule,” the rulebook notes. “No phone calls. Exceptions can be made under certain circumstances but only after receiving permission.”
The Joneses also barred “Singles” from having “romantic relationships to the opposite sex…
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The good news is that the victory was won at Calvary and the best efforts of the media, or any force for evil will not crucify the innocent Christ again. They may persecute His followers, but His true followers know already that that is the price of true faith in Jesus Christ. The bloodthirsty mobs STILL have no king but Caesar. It is indeed a time of choosing. Come Jesus, come.
You are correct. This quote, unqote pastor with a flock of about fifty is clearly a fringe lunatic. There is no shortage of them on the left or right, but the worst carry on their lunacy in the name of God. Not the God I love and worship.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/heads-up-from-michael-moore
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not “insurgents” or “terrorists” or “The Enemy.” They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?...
...There is a lot of talk amongst Bush's opponents that we should turn this war over to the United Nations. Why should the other countries of this world, countries who tried to talk us out of this folly, now have to clean up our mess? I oppose the U.N. or anyone else risking the lives of their citizens to extract us from our debacle. I'm sorry, but the majority of Americans supported this war once it began and, sadly, that majority must now sacrifice their children until enough blood has been let that maybe — just maybe — God and the Iraqi people will forgive us in the end.
“Our mistake was ever allowing Islam to be considered a religion in the first place and giving it protected status.”
I concur.
It’s more subtle than the Nazis were, but the Nazis certainly had their religious aspects going on, with the revival of pagan germanic crud.
Yep, and most rational people condemned that action as well.
What kind of mental weakness causes one to side with the enemy who has served notice on all humankind who is not an adherent to their retrograde ideology? Your Muslim apologetics will not buy you a day when the sword of Islam is at your throat demanding to know your allegiance to Allah. Diseased.
I am supporting this because I can
What is the crisis here?
There was no crisis when Marilyn Manson was tearing up the Christian bible every night on his tour.
There was outrage and protests that taxpayer funded civic venues were hosting this horror show, but was it a “crisis”?
What makes “this” a crisis then?
Hyperbole. Nothing but.
Homosexuals don’t just “dry hump” at gay pride parades. Just sayin’.
That’s really weird. I do all my posts in Word for spell-checking before I actually post. In post 84, “Christian lives” came out “Christian lies,” even though in my original Word copy I had it right, “Christian lives.” Is there a pro-Islamic hacker toying with our posts, or was this just a cyberfluke? Weird.
This was the very argument being made against the Ground Zero victory mosque.
It is CONSTITUTIONAL but offensive.
President Obama came down in DEFENSE of the mosque being built.
Both lives and lies will spellcheck okay.
But if you are too soft on the “v” key, you’ll get the difference...
It’s the pussification of america.
pussification(noun): the state in which a society becomes less and less tough. This noun’s originator is the famous comedian George Carlin.
“We are undergoing a pussification of our entire society.”
There would be no issue at all if the MSM ignored this event with the same zeal that they tried to ignore the 8/28 and 9/12 events on the DC mall.
In this case, like shooting fish in a barrel.
Then the president, the press, and the state department were behaving irrationally then since they did not voice offense at the flag burnings.
I pray for missionaries like your friends and the martyrs who went before them. None of this gives the mammoth government of the US the right to deny a citizen his civil liberties. I agree, he is likely a kook, a kook who has the right to offend under the First Amendment. Whatever evil Islamists do they are doing anyway.
This lone man is doing what the US Government and Armed Forces should have done 7 years ago. Draw a line in the sand and tell the known enemy if you cross it you will pay with shock and awe. If they had done so and destroyed the enemy the wars would have been over 5 years ago and you would never have heard of Reverend Jones.
Nothing he does excuses crimes against humanity perpetrated by the practitioners of the evil addiction called Islam.
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