Dennis Terry #fundie

Dennis Terry #fundie huffingtonpost.com

"I don't care what the liberals say, I don't care what the naysayers say, this nation was founded as a Christian nation...There is only one God and his name is Jesus. I'm tired of people telling me that I can't say those words.. Listen to me, If you don't love America, If you don't like the way we do things I have one thing to say - GET OUT. We don't worship Buddha, we don't worship Mohammad, we don't worship Allah, we worship God, we worship God's son Jesus Christ."

In a revival type speech, Greenwell Springs Baptist Church pastor Rev. Dennis Terry introduced Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Christians, according to Rev. Terry, are the conscience of the state and even the key to turning the economy around. The pastor offered some pointed words about abortion, gay marriage, and prayer in schools, shouting about 'sexual perversion' and putting God back in Washington, D.C., as Senator Santorum was seen clapping, if not cheering, in the background.

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old comment by dionysus

We don't worship Buddha, we don't worship Mohammad, we don't worship Allah, we worship God, we worship God's son Jesus Christ.

The Constitution, motherfucker, have you read it?

Listen to me, If you don't love America, If you don't like the way we do things I have one thing to say - GET OUT.

Okay, then take your own advice and get the fuck out! This country is based on freedom of speech and freedom of religion and if you don't like that then GTFO, dickhead!

Christians, according to Rev. Terry, are the conscience of the state and even the key to turning the economy around.

How? How are Christians going to magically fix the economy? Especially since your brand of Christians hates science and revolutionary inventions are what spark the economy (because everyone has to buy them).

Senator Santorum was seen clapping, if not cheering, in the background

Of course that nutter was cheering. He wants to be the Christian Ayatollah.

old comment by JSS

{I'm tired of people telling me that I can't say those words.}

But you can say those words. It's just other people can criticize you for saying those words under their free speech rights. That's the part you seem to oppose so vehemently.

{If you don't love America, If you don't like the way we do things I have one thing to say - GET OUT. We don't worship Buddha, we don't worship Mohammad, we don't worship Allah, we worship God, we worship God's son Jesus Christ.}

Aww. You senile old man. You're not thinking clearly. The non-Christians who live here do in fact love America, and everything it actually stands for: Freedom, Freedom of Religion, what your speech seems to oppose so vitriolically. Now of course, I understand you're just dying to take the wheel for this country and turn it into Christian Saudi Arabia in the matter of days, but maybe you'll want to come down from your self-righteous pedestal long enough to consider whether or not the hatred of our nation's values is coming from you...

old comment by Horsefeathers

"I don't care what the liberals say, I don't care what the naysayers say, this nation was founded as a Christian nation..."

Do you care what the Federal Government itself says, 'cause there's that pesky Treaty of Tripoli.

"There is only one God and his name is Jesus."

I thought his name was Yahweh. Unless you're a particularly thick fundy that is, then god's "name" is "God."

"I'm tired of people telling me that I can't say those words..."

You can scream out Jesus' name all night long if you want to, but the neighbors might look at you funny in the morning.

"We don't worship Buddha, we don't worship Mohammad, we don't worship Allah, we worship God, we worship God's son Jesus Christ."

Even the Buddhists and Muslims?

As a side note, nobody "worships" Buddha as you're using the term and Allah is your god, you moron.

"The pastor offered some pointed words about abortion, gay marriage, and prayer in schools, shouting about 'sexual perversion' and putting God back in Washington, D.C."

Of course he did. He's working from the same playbook as all the rest of the fundamentalist nutjobs.

"Senator Santorum was seen clapping, if not cheering, in the background."

It must have been Happy Time, just before his milk and cookies snack, after which he would have nap time for about an hour.

Just keep him away from the paste jar.

old comment by Wehpudicabok

You just said those words. No one stopped you. People may criticize you for saying something, but that isn't the same thing. One is censorship and the other is debate. Learn the difference.

Not that anyone would criticize you for saying "There is only one God and his name is Jesus" anyway, except people looking for a philosophical debate (or a brawl). We criticize you politically for saying that the US isn't open to people of all faiths, which is antithetical to the ideas of the Founders.

@Anon:

He's obviously a fool, but I don't think he's lying. There is an astonishing level of ignorance among many American Christians about other religions. Most of them seem to think that Buddha is worshiped as a creator-deity, which just goes to show that they literally don't know the first thing about Buddhism.

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Here's a little article from the Treaty of Tripoli, which was passed into law on June 10, 1797.(emphasis mine)
"Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
Also, the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. (Emphasis mine)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Choke on them you pompous, overzealous, tyrannical religiotard. And if you don't like the fact that the USA is a secular nation, then I have one thing to say, get out.

old comment by Fundies Make Me Sick

"I don't care what the liberals say, I don't care what the naysayers say," - And I don't care what you say.

"this nation was founded as a Christian nation" - No it wasn't. Period. Deal with it.

"There is only one God and his name is Jesus." - Every other theistic religion disagrees with you (I say this as a Christian).

"I'm tired of people telling me that I can't say those words" - No one says you can't say them but just because you say them doesn't make them true.

"Listen to me, If you don't love America, If you don't like the way we do things I have one thing to say - GET OUT." - Okay, then go to Saudi Arabia because in America we have freedom of religion and you seem to not like that.

"We don't worship Buddha, we don't worship Mohammad, we don't worship Allah, we worship God, we worship God's son Jesus Christ." - Actually, different people in America worship all those deities (individually). Christianity doesn't have a monopoly on this country. It can't, per the Establishment Clause.

In closing, to Rev. Terry, Rick Santorum and ESPECIALLY Tony Perkins, fuck all of you with a gigantic, iron, rusty, poison-tipped needle. Repeatedly. Then die in a fire.

old comment by Anon

>>Wehpudicabok

@Anon:

But, by this point, Terry has been told many times by many people how he has completely misunderstood their religion (or lack there of, for the atheists, agnostics, and some strains of Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism). He has to be deliberately either not listening to them or continuing to say things that he knows aren't true.

Perhaps he is both a fool and a liar. I do not know.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

@Dewey Cheatham

"@1386657:

The uber-fundie Baptist/evangelical types don't, and never have, considered Catholics (including Santorum) "real Christians." However, as the saying goes, "Politics makes for strange bedfellows" -- RS says enough of the "correct" things, ESPECIALLY on social issues, that they'll overlook the Papism, at least for now."

I wonder what Jack Chick would say, certainly re. the Repubican nominations? I know what Ian Paisley (the Northern Irish politician/preacher, who'd make the mere reding of the phone directory infinitely more terrifying than Revelation) would, re. Frothy Muxture; him being hyper-rabidly anti-Catholic and all; 'Papists', and all that jazz.

The Religious Right in the US - certainly re. abortion & contraception - are clearly trying to out-catholicise the Catholic Church. Seems that all of Martin Luther's, King Henry VIII's, King William of Orange's, Oliver Cromwell's, and King James I's work, re. Protestantism, was ultimately all for naught.

Dennis Terry #fundie huffingtonpost.com

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