Baptist pastor's words shock Muslim leaders : "Mohammad a 'possessed pedophile"

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | Wed, Jun. 12, 2002 | JIM JONES Special to the Star-Telegram

[jennyp]

Mohammed was the L. Ron Hubbard of his time.

The more I read about Islam, the more I think you're right. A cross between L. Ron Hubbard, a mafia don and John Edwards (Crossing Over). The descriptions of Mohammed's trance sessions sounds exactly like the kind of setup a modern TV faith healer would have, complete with cold & warm readings of a pre-screened audience of gullible believers.

[JediGirl]

Hey, that would be a great bumper sticker!

I'm sure you find these kind of bumper stickers amusing, hm?

didn't think so...

[pegleg]

Hopefully, Rev. Vines will not back away from this statement to quiet the controversy.

Nope. It was just on the news here. A local Islamic leader asked the Church to refute what he said. A church spokesman said no, his statements can be backed up from Islamic writings.

[spokanite]

First Baptist is a big church in Jacksonville, Fl. It takes up several city blocks. Now the pastor has the Muslims all in a fury. I would have to suggest security to be tightened at that church for a while. There are thousands that attend that church every Sunday. Thousands of Christians in a building worshiping God, sounds like a good place for the peace loving Muslim extreemist to make a statement...

[CyberCowboy777]

LOL, I do. Of course I know that they do not represent the truth.... To bad her suggestion does.

Let us not forget that Agnostics, Pagans and Atheist have murdered more people than any Christian or Muslim.

[twntaipan]

They have done that very thing, though on a smaller scale, at the International Church in Islamabad. This happened several months ago now.

I suspect multiple attacks on churches here in the USA will come soon enough. Either suicide or hand grenades.

But most churches have had increased security since the guy in Ft. Worth, Texas entered Wedgewood Baptist Church (also a Southern Baptist church) and shot up a youth rally--killed 5 or 6. The media dismissed that as simply a crazy (even though the guy reportedly had a shredded Bible in his house); couldn't be aimed or directed at Christians because they are Christians.

[Torie]

What a circus. Listening to religions bash each other is so much fun.

[JediGirl]

Pretty much what I was thinking. The age-old "My god is better than your god!"

[Dixie Mom]

didn't think so...

You thought wrong.

I have very eclectic taste. LOL

[headsonpikes]

"Agnostics"????

I don't think so....I can see it now......

"Thousands of fanatical agnostics storm through the streets of a fearful city carrying their hateful banners with their extremist slogans...'Heisenberg was Right'!...'What about Goedel'?'...and etc."

Agnostics? no, they won't be your boys blowing up stuff....unless there's fundamentalist muslim agnostics, which I doubt.

[Clara Lou]

I am well aware that these people aren't "Lutherans." I am also aware that, of the millions and millions of Islamics on this planet, only a very small percentage are using their religion as an excuse to murder us "infidels."
You noodle it out-- making incendiary remarks about someone's religion--be they Baptists, Catholics, Mormons, or Muslims-- isn't going to accomplish anything positive. There are more constructive ways of dealing with the situation than making insulting remarks.

[JediGirl]

Good then :-D

[swampfox98]

Good on the Baptists. The truth shall set you free..

Let's hope that tomorrow the Baptist spokesman will not whine and cry saying the press mis-quoted him -- that actually the old Muslim guy was a saint, or something. Too many times when the truth is told the pressure from the left forces the truth teller to recant.

[Chemnitz]

Could we have some facts or quotes please? I am not familiar with the subject. I would be glad to pass the quotations onto others.

[CyberCowboy777]

Stalin was Agnostic.

[headsonpikes]

Stalin???? Please, a source.

[CyberCowboy777]

Stalin said he was skeptical about the existence of God, but never did profess true atheism. I will have to dig up the quote.

One can be uncommitted on the issue of God's existence and still murderous. I am sure we can find many examples.

[Mo1]

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[Torie]

One can be uncommitted on the issue of God's existence and still murderous.

Wow, don't go out on a limb or anything. Indeed, one can believe in God and be murderous, at least objectively speaking, and maybe even subjectively if one is willing to risk the wrath of whatever higher power to whom one subscribes.

[headsonpikes]

I'd be interested; you may well be right!

Murder is a universal failing, I'm afraid.

Dang! And I thought agnostics were all tea-drinking Anglicans...sheesh. ;^)