Koran burning church linked to Westboro Baptist

All the more reason to stand against the event planned for 9/11 this year:

Cults tend to be very upfront about the bulk of their beliefs. There are some special bits of knowledge that you will only gain on the inside, and some of those insider tidbits can be nasty indeed, but mostly they’ll gladly tell you what they believe, and why you should believe it. Once that meant selling cassettes and getting newsletter subscriptions if you were a small operation. These days it means a web site, Facebook, your own You Tube channel, and podcasts for both your sermons and something called “The Braveheart Show.” You even have your own Blog, and that’s where I found the smoking gun:

On Sunday April 18, Westboro Baptist Church came to Gainesville. One of their stops was a liberal “Open doors, open hearts, open minds,” church near us, so we took part of our Sunday Service time and went as a church to stand with them.

The full blog post pulled up last night, but seems hard to get to today, possibly because of blog traffic. The Google cache is here. Is the opening paragraph out of context? You judge:

We have also learned that when you speak out about what God hates, you will be hated. We do not agree with all of Westboro’s methods, but we admire their determination to find radical ways to preach the truth of the Bible, as we do. Most churches and Pastors in America try to stand on neutral ground. They are lost, weak and sick and need to repent.

The parallels between this event and the Ground Zero Mosque are pretty obvious... the right to do what is desired exists beyond a reasonable doubt in either case but whether or not it's the right and decent thing to do is the bigger question.

And who the parties are linking arms with is also relevant.

As we learn more about this church in Florida, we learn more about why it is we should stand against their planned event.

Decency calls for them to stand down on the Koran burning.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

Comments

[chuck aka xtnyoda]

I thought I should post my thoughts on this issue over at my blog... so I did. Then I come here and see this... wish I would have come here first... I would have just posted this... but I'll paste here what I said on my site.

S.T.U.P.I.D.

Does the bunch have the "right" to burn the books... of course they have the "right" to do so... but... this is clearly a provocative act on the part of a "Christian" congregation. This is NOT something that our God has told this "congregation" to do... quite the contrary.

These same people undoubtedly would be against the mosque being built near "ground-zero" because it is seen as an act of provocation... and I would agree 100%. Does the New York Muslim group have the "right" to build the mosque? Of course they do. Should they? Of course they should not... out of common decency.

This provocative act by the Florida group is doing what they would in fact condemn the New York Muslims for trying to do.

The pastor and church need to repent of their hateful and provocative intent... and they need to do it now.

Pretty close thoughts.

[Shifty1]

Unfortunately, the local papers down here reported that the Black Panthers have declared that they were going to head on up to G-ville to bust some butts. Which only open the door to the KKK sneaking in to make a little mayhem.....

This is turning into one of those situations where the nerdy little dweeb was at a "party" (or dungeons and dragons marathon in his mom's basement), hoping to score with the poor lass that happened to be standing in line for the bathroom with him, declared that he was gonna kick so-and-so's butt, never actually intending anyone to find out about his threat. But as luck would have it, somebody ahd a cell phone with video capabilities and next thing you know, dweeb-o's attempt at panty-raiding has gone viral on you tube, and now the mobbed-up third cousin-in-law of the guy he originally "threatened" wants in on the action....all of which brings the third cousin's enemies into the fray...

This will not have a pretty ending....

I've said it before and I'll say it again...please, Pastor Jones, explain again exactly how this little stunt points anyone toward Christ, or glorifies God.....you know....the things that are in your "job description"?

[smokincols42]

I am sick and tired of islam being given a pass, when other, legitimate, religions are getting the crap kicked out of them. Doesn't anyone in this country realize that, these people ARE the enemy and that they have every intent of taking over this country and making it into an Iran, or Iraq? Stop the idiotic foolishness of being tolerant. Let's start thinking about saving this country, first of all from the demagogues in Washington and then from our most obvious enemy, islam. They have already killed more than 3,000 of us not including our military men and women in the Middle East. If this Pastor wants to burn korans, it's his right and privilege and to hell with the political correctness.

[Shifty1]

Smokincols...
I'm not denying that as an American citizen, these idiots have the RIGHT to burn whatever books they want. My point, besides the fact that just HAVING the right to do something does not make it the RIGHT thing to do, is that these folks aren't acting simply as American citizens. They have enlisted their affiliation as a CHRISTIAN church to "legitamize" what they are doing. The problem is that in their "church" capacity, thier ONLY duty is to draw people to Christ and glorify God. Neither of which is accomplished by the book-burning.