The I-Man's Blog: Pastor Terry
Here’s my question: How did a nut-log with some “shake-the-snake” divinity degree and a fifty family “church” in a Florida Quonset hut wind up getting the attention of Interpol, the President of the United States, the Secretary General of the United Nations and the Pope in the first place?
One possible answer: By making Jim Jones look lucid. Not the one who’s the National Security guy. You’ll never make him look lucid. Remember his “Taliban and the Jewish Merchant” joke? That went over well. No, I’m talking about the Reverend Jim Jones who left us with the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” after he distributed that “snuff communion” to 900 of his followers down there in Guyana back in the ‘70’s
Which brings me to the Reverend Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center – his “church” in Gainesville, Florida. Pastor Terry is the humanitarian who came up with, thankfully, the now cancelled “Burn a Koran Day” brainstorm to commemorate the events of 9/11…apparently as a project for his “Start World War Three” merit badge. Perfect. “I don’t think they hate us enough yet. Let’s pile up a bunch of their holiest bestsellers and torch them.” Jim Jones killed 912. This guy? If he’d had his way, who knows? What’s the population of the planet?
Anyway, right up until late Thursday, Pastor Terry wasn’t backing down. Actually, I liked that. My kind of religious nut. A fanatic who you couldn’t pry loose with either reason or a “prostitute-a-day” for life program. I did have a problem with the moustache, though. A preacher? He looked more like he ought to be banging out bikes at Orange County Choppers screaming at Mikey than banging on a Bible screaming inanities at Muslims from the Sunshine State. Jesus.
Speaking of Jesus: Wasn’t one of the last times a gang of wild-eyed lunatics burned a bunch of books back in Nazi Germany? While it may come as a revelation to Pastor Terry, Jesus died on a cross. Not a swastika. Idiot.
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