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Cult leader Warren Jeffs prophecies famine by mob rule

Religion News Blog — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:14:00 +0000

It appears that imprisoned cult leader Warren Jeffs is using his life sentence to sharpen his creative writing skills.

For the fourth time this year he has issued a set of revelations which he represents as coming directly from Jesus Christ.

Imprisoned cult leader comes up with new doomsday revelations

Religion News Blog — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:34:18 +0000

Imprisoned polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has released a series of so-called revelations in which he says a succession of natural disasters will strike the U.S.

In one of the five separate "revelations," Jeffs writes that Jesus Christ will make his coming known with a "great tsunami of the sea" on the East Coast; earthquakes and volcanoes in "populated places" in Utah and Arizona; a tidal wave in Seattle; and melting in Idaho "to cleanse my land of all evil."

Florida pastor Terry Jones’s Koran burning has far-reaching effect

Religion News Blog — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:36:44 +0000

Un-Christian behavior on the part of an attention-seeking 'pastor' and his 30-person fringe church in Gainsville, Florida, has led Muslim extremists in Afghanistan to savagely murder innocent people.

Terry Jones, the 58-year-old pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, presided over what he called an "International Judge the Koran Day" on March 20, in which he supervised the burning of Islam's holy book in front of some 50 people.

UK bars U.S. pastor who threatened to burn Koran

Religion News Blog — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:57:02 +0000

Florida Pastor Terry Jones, whose threat to burn Islam's holy book on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks last year provoked widespread condemnation, has been banned from visiting Britain, Reuters reports.

Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group

Religion News Blog — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:12:03 +0000

The Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group masquerading as a Christian church. Theologically, the hate group’s extremist views and despicable behavior mark it as a cult of Christianity.

Led by Fred Phelps, members of this 'church' — who have deluded themselves into thinking that they are followers of Jesus Christ — target homosexuals and others with messages of hate.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether or not this group's particular brand of religious insanity should be allowed as 'free speech.'

Florida Pastor Who Vowed to Burn Korans Billed for Security; Says Church Would Go Bankrupt

Religion News Blog — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:49:02 +0000

The controversial Florida pastor who threatened to burn Korans on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is expected to be billed at least $200,000 by the city of Gainesville for costs associated with the stunt.

Pastor Terry Jones, who got international attention with his on-again, off-again plan to burn 200 copies of Islam's holiest book, said the costs would essentially bankrupt his 50-member church, the Dove World Outreach Center.

Jones, 58, vowed to fight the security bill in court and said he plans to move his church to Tampa because of what he called a lack of support in Gainesville.

The maverick preacher eventually called off his protest after increasing pressure from Washington and beyond.

The 'pastor' -- a misnomer in this case -- should spend more time with his Bible (where among other things he could have learned something about counting the cost before starting a project) and less time acting foolishly.

Atheist burns Koran and Bible

Religion News Blog — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:54:11 +0000

A lawyer who videoed himself smoking what appeared to be joints made with pages from the Bible and the Koran expects to lose his job at a Queensland university.

In the video, posted on YouTube, Queensland University of Technology staffer Alex Stewart compares cigarettes made with pages from the two holy texts.

In the clip, titled "Bible or Koran - which burns best?", the professed atheist says burning religious books is no big deal and people need to get over it.

But the Queensland University of Technology, which employs Mr Stewart, is not impressed and has demanded he explain himself.

"QUT is tolerant of all religions and does not condone damage to any religious artefacts," QUT registrar Dr Carol Dickenson said in a statement.

Westboro religious nuts may burn Qurans

Religion News Blog — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:53:45 +0000

Pastor Terry Jones may have ‘suspended’ plans to burn copies of the Quran at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., on 9/11, but the religious nuts of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, says they will.

The Westboro group, a religious cult, is a hate group that masquerades as a religion. Its followers are known for confusing their hate-filled speech and behavior.

While claiming to be Christians they demonstrate in word and in deed that they are not followers of Jesus Christ, but rather servants of the devil. .

Although the church burned a Quran in Washington in 2008, it did not get much media attention. On its web site Friday, the church called Pastor Jones in Gainesville a “false prophet … bullied by sissy, intolerant rebels worldwide into cancelling plans to burn that blasphemous idol called the Koran.”

Westboro also declared that it “will burn the Koran and the doomed American flag at 12:00 p.m. on September 11, 2010 at Westboro Baptist Church.”

You'll notice we file all reports involving the Westboro Baptist Church under the header of 'religious insanity.'

Scientology says it’s just like the Salvation Army

Religion News Blog — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:27:46 +0000

The Church of Scientology, seen by many as a destructive cult involved in the marketing of quackery under the guise of religion has compared itself to the Salvation Army during a senate inquiry in Australia.

The inquiry also heard from ex-Scientologists who went public with their shocking experiences earlier this year, when Senator Xenophon twice failed in efforts to have an inquiry into abuse allegations.

States Line Up Against Funeral Hecklers in Supreme Court Brief

Religion News Blog — Mon, 31 May 2010 12:42:16 +0000

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals.

The respondent, Phelps, has staged loud protests with members of his Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals around the country. He argues his signs, bearing messages such as "You're in hell" and "God hates you," are protected forms of speech.