Christian terrorism

Now thankfully, pastor Terry Jones has called off his threat to burn copies of the Qur'an. Yet, the article which reports this good news has failed to fill me with any joy.

In it, Jones claims that he's made a deal with the Imam of the proposed Ground Zero mosque, with the result that

"has agreed to move the location."

Now, I doubt that this is true. But, if it is, then what is this but a successful act of terrorism? Someone is doing something perfectly legal which someone else doesn't want them to, so they threaten to destroy something valuable which the other person value very highly in order to blackmail them into giving up their original project. Manipulation is not God-honouring, Mr Jones.

"The American people do not want the mosque there, and, of course, Muslims do not want us to burn the Koran."

Nine years later, phenomenally different in scale, but how much different in principle?

The Spiritual Meth-od

Feelings of uncleanness? Freaking out about your sinful heart? Need some accountability in your life?

You need John and Charles Wesley's Holy Club!

Seriously. That's what they called their accountability group. Bet they didn't cop any flak for that one.

And really, 'methodist'? Surely they could come up with a better name than that! They even had two hymn writers on staff! Even just one Simone would come up with something far snappier than that.

And their hymn didn't even come close in the poll...

I'm not supposed to insult people

But they're stupid.

I'm trying to look up the full version of an awesome joke I've heard, the punchline of which is a pun. Shank says to Jim, "I can really be saved?" And Jim says "Sure Shank, redemption!"

Now try typing "Sure Shank Redemption" into Google and see how many people think that's really the name of the movie...

And yes, I am just bitter that people's ignorance means I can't find my joke amongst the errors.