On the wings of a snow-white dove

I'm far more inclined to think of these people as the epitome all the ugly hate-filled mindless psychotic religious pretenders. No christian (in my thinking) would partake in this ****.

There is absolutely no biblical basis for this church to be doing this that I can find. Not that I was trying to find justification for it but, as a Christian, I refer to scripture. Scripture says, "Vengence is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay." This church is going completely opposite of scripture.

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."

here we have some really wacko "christians" with a really wacko "event" which is like 9/11 was a really wacko event by some really wacko muslims.

The pastor and his wife apparently regarded themselves as having been appointed by God, meaning opposition was a crime against the Lord. Terry and Sylvia Jones allegedly used these methods to ask for money in an increasingly insistent manner, as well as making members of the congregation carry out work.

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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.

Arella Mae wrote:

There is absolutely no biblical basis for this church to be doing this that I can find. Not that I was trying to find justification for it but, as a Christian, I refer to scripture. Scripture says, "Vengence is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay." This church is going completely opposite of scripture.

I may not have read the same bible. I seem to recall a lot of smiting of unbelievers, especially in the old testament (although there was that unfortunate fig tree in the new testament). The god of the old testament, at least, wouldn't have had any problem with the burning of a few korans, especially after what he did to folks like the Midianites.

However, we are not under the Old Testament covenant any longer.

I read on a blog that some "christians" in Waco Texas were planning on dancing in the streets while the Koran was being burnt. That's enough proof for me that all "christians" are violent by the nature of their religion.

Yeah, that's pretty much the answer that I expected. Whenever there's something in the old testament that they don't want to believe any more, Christians usually just explain that it has been superseded by the "new covenant." All that stuff about shellfish and ritual purifications and stoning adulterers? Doesn't apply -- new covenant, dude! Of course, if Jesus represented a new covenant, then why does the bible have the old testament at all? Kinda' redundant, don't you think? Sorta' like keeping the owner's manual after you sold the car.

Meanwhile, all the stuff from the old testament that Christians still want -- like prohibitions on homosexuality -- well, that apparently wasn't included in the new covenant. As the Church Lady would have said, isn't that conveeeenient!