> Florida pastor's daughter says "he needs help"

#1 2010-09-10 18:27:34

BERLIN ? The estranged daughter of a U.S. pastor who has threatened to burn copies of the Koran believes he has gone mad and needs help, she said in a German media interview conducted on Friday.

Emma Jones, who lives in Germany, told Spiegel Online she had e-mailed her father urging him to drop his plan to burn copies of the Islamic holy book, writing: "Dad, leave it be!"

He did not reply, she said.

Facing an outpouring of concern from U.S. leaders and anger from Muslims worldwide, Pastor Terry Jones, of Gainesville, Florida, said on Friday he no longer planned to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

But Jones appeared to leave open the possibility he could change his mind if a proposed meeting fails to take place on Saturday in New York with Muslim leaders planning to build an Islamic center and mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks.

"My father is not one to give up," said Emma Jones, 30. "As a daughter, I see the good-natured core inside him. But I think he needs help."

"I think he has gone mad," she added.

She described how a Christian community her father spent years building in Cologne, Germany was at first Bible-orientated but later changed. After leaving the community aged 17, Emma Jones said she returned in 2005 to find it had become sect-like.

"I saw that my father preached and did things that I didn't find biblical at all. He demanded total allegiance to himself and his second wife," she said. His first wife, her mother, died in 1996.

"That was real religious delusion I saw," she added. "Typical evidence of a sect."

Emma Jones said the community kicked out her father in 2008, when he returned to the United States.

"I really hope he comes to his senses," she said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39099740/ns/business/

#2 2010-09-10 18:44:57

Bill Hicks:

"We're goin' down to Buddha Bubba's. He's mah Messaaaah!"

#3 2010-09-10 18:48:24

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pastor's daughter says "he needs help"

I intend to help him by sending him another koran to burn.

#4 2010-09-10 18:49:46

Preacher's Daughter Pre-fap mode = ON,

at least until one of you assholes posts a photo of her that shows she is as big as a barn....

#5 2010-09-10 18:54:00

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Ms. Jones, your father wants to burn hundreds of Korans at his church in Florida on Saturday. What do you think of the plan?

Emma Jones: I am shocked and condemn it.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Former members of his church have spoken of psychological cruelty, forced work, financial irregularities and calls to beat ones own children.

Jones: My mother, Lisa Jones, died in 1996 of a heart attack. Shortly thereafter, my father remarried and I left the church at age 17. In 2005, he offered me a job as a bookkeeper in a company belonging to the church, which sold donated furniture on eBay. I gained a new insight, and realized that my father preached things and did things that I didn't find to be in accordance with the Bible at all. He demanded that people completely obey him and his second wife, Sylvia. Both are extremely obsessed with power. I saw genuine religious delusion. A typical indication of a sect. Both of them wanted to control everything.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Did you confront your father at the time?

Jones: Yes. I didn't agree with those things which I saw as exploitation and psychological abuse. I repeatedly brought those things up. In the end, he called me into his office and said he received a message from God for me: God would take my children and then kill me. I stood up and left. Then I contacted members of the church and tried to open their eyes. And I was successful.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: It is true, then, that the church in Cologne ousted your father itself?

Jones: Yes.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Did he leave Cologne willingly?

Jones: It was a mixture. We confronted him and demanded that he correct his errors. But he didn't give in. When we brought up the church finances, he disappeared the next day.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Are you still involved with the church that he left behind?

Jones: No.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you believe your father is serious about burning the Korans?

Jones: I do. My father is not one to give up. As his daughter, I can see the good-natured core deep inside him. But I think he needs help.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is your father a megalomaniac?

Jones: I'm afraid he is. As his daughter, it is difficult for me to say that.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor … 58,00.html

#6 2010-09-10 18:58:29

Emma Jones and Heinz Koop - a former church elder in Germany - say church members confronted Terry and Sylvia Jones with an itemized list of alleged abuses such as a car purchased by the church for their son, salaries paid by the church for TS and Company employees and donated furniture that was sold for profit.

After the accusations, Terry and Sylvia Jones - who from 2001 to 2008 had divided their time between living in Gainesville and living in Cologne - left Cologne permanently in 2008.

Terry Jones declined to comment about these and other accusations, saying through a spokeswoman only that he and his wife left Germany because "he had been there for 30 years, and it was just time."

According to state documents, TS and Company later was incorporated at the church in Gainesville in February 2007, with Terry and Sylvia Jones and Marvin Wayne Sapp listed as managers. Both the church and the company list their address as 5805 N.W. 37th St.

"Part of the profits go back into the church," Terry Jones said during an interview early last week in his office at the church. "At least a part of those proceeds are funneled back into the church."
http://www.gainesville.com/article/2009 … /907191005

shocked

#7 2010-09-10 18:58:50

hitler gayness

#8 2010-09-10 19:01:38

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psychological cruelty, forced work, financial irregularities and calls to beat ones own children.

Typical Republican Behavior

#9 2010-09-10 19:03:53

He does need help. He needs every American to join him burning Korans.

#10 2010-09-10 19:23:38

Redneck, check;

Fundie, check;

No wonder he doesn't have a nickel's worth of common sense.

lol

#11 2010-09-10 19:30:02

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I intend to help him by sending him another koran to burn.

potd

#12 2010-09-10 19:32:55

Her Father is a human reject. Darwin will take care of this.

#13 2010-09-10 19:34:21

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BERLIN ? The estranged daughter of a U.S. pastor who has threatened to burn copies of the Koran believes he has gone mad and needs help, she said in a German media interview conducted on Friday./

Honour your father, qunt.

#14 2010-09-10 19:34:31

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Redneck, check;

Fundie, check;

No wonder he doesn't have a nickel's worth of common sense.

I worry that the fundies of this country have the view that to honor god you should not be educated as you might question him.

We're fuqed. Kill religion.

#15 2010-09-10 19:34:56

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Her Father is a human reject. Darwin will take care of this.

Funny, its the religious people who have more kids.

Sorry libfag.

#16 2010-09-10 19:35:06

AnimeBoi wrote:
Honour your father, qunt.

She must be ashamed that he looks like Jed Clampett. lol

#17 2010-09-10 19:35:36

AnimeBoi wrote:
Funny, its the religious people who have more kids.

Sorry libfag.

stonedmonkey

#18 2010-09-10 19:42:14

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Her Father is a human reject. Darwin will take care of this.
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whyte gave his DNA to her, professor.

lol

#19 2010-09-10 19:43:40

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I worry that the fundies of this country have the view that to honor god you should not be educated. Kill religion. Abolish the First Amendment! Save America! Kill freedom!
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#20 2010-09-10 19:44:24

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She must be ashamed that he looks like Jed Clampett.
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pedohunter

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