SO...the Florida Koran-burning pastor apparently does not allow CAKE.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Koran Burner: Creepier Than You Think
Florida church’s student “rulebook” worthy of pastor’s bonfire

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/koran-burner-creepier-you-think

SEPTEMBER 8--The Florida pastor who is planning to burn a pile of Korans this weekend runs a church that has established a variety of cult-like rules for individuals studying to become ministers, according to the group’s “rulebook.”

The Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC), headed by Islam-hating Rev. Terry Jones, has been widely denounced for its September 11 bonfire plans. The tiny Gainesville church is headed by Jones and his wife Sylvia, a co-pastor.

The DWOC’s “Academy Rulebook,” a copy of which you’ll find here, was created in November 2007 by Sylvia Jones. The document, which details the standards to which a prospective DWOC minister must adhere, addresses topics such as behavior, study, and communication. It is also filled with the kind of creepy directions that are often associated with cults.

For instance, students are directed to cut off most contact with family members. “Family occasions like wedding, funerals or Birthdays are no exception to this rule,” the rulebook notes. “No phone calls. Exceptions can be made under certain circumstances but only after receiving permission.”

The Joneses also barred “Singles” from having “romantic relationships to the opposite sex…Except work things, there is no need to talk at all, or even flirt!” Students were barred from “eating out in restaurants” and warned that they would be weighed “once a week to follow the tendency,” an apparent reference to a weight goal established by the Joneses.

The rulebook--which is riddled with misspellings and grammatically challenged--notes that students must “wash or shower at least once a day but not more then 2 a day,” and make sure to cleanse “Mouth, sweat areas, hair, feet hands.” (6 pages)

[HipChick]

1. More like a cult than church

[Bobbieo]

5. Jones sounds like a candidate for the Sharia bound Fundamentailist Muslim sect.

He sure fits the criteria!

[sylvi]

8. To me, this is the dead giveaway

"For instance, students are directed to cut off most contact with family members."

So many cults seem to have that as part of their teaching, policy or whatever they want to call it. Can't have the relatives telling them how nutty their leader is.

I live about an hour from Gainesville, and we have our own krazy kult. They're known as the "End Timers" and they do the same thing.

[Mariana]

13. As far as I know, most cults usually don't put that in writing

or tell prospective members up front that they'll be expected to do that, BECAUSE it's such a dead giveaway that they're being recruited into a cult.

[smalll]

2. Let them not eat cake!

Honestly, an exceedingly wacky fundie preacher in Floriduh (and it is a badge of distinction that he seems to be exceedingly wacky, even in the general population of wacky fundie preachers from Floriduh) wants to burn a few Korans.

And, allegedly, this will cause umpteen Muslims half away around the world to attack Americans.

Guess there's exceeding wackiness on both sides of the globe.

[Zanzobar]

3. Whoa. That's him? Looks like Paul Teutul after a stomach staple.

[Frustratedlady]

6. He reminds me of that guy who buried his daughter in that "tomb"

and forced her to have his children.

[LostinVA]

26. Yes -- he does!

[HEyHEY]

4. "The rulebook--which is riddled with misspellings and grammatically challenged"

Shocker!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Yosemite Sam is insane.

[rpannier]

12. After looking at his picture I can honestly say in the Reverand's defense

That he's the rootin-est, tootin-est, reverend-est, reverend, that ever ministered across the Rio Grandi and I don't mean Mahatma Gandhi neither

Sorry...I do love old Bugs and Sam episodes

[rpannier]

9. And this part is different from many countries where Islam is practiced how???

The Joneses also barred “Singles” from having “romantic relationships to the opposite sex…Except work things, there is no need to talk at all, or even flirt!”

[Codeine]

10. Illiterate son of a bitch.

I think he burns books because all those words prove too confusing.

[Tx4obama]

11. I read all six pages of the rule book, yep it's a CULT

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/dove-church-rulebook

[Duppers]

14. sounds more and more as if he could be a relative of this freak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

Dangerous people.

This current freak's Koran (would someone tell Chris Matthew how to pronounce that!) burning should be categorized as a national security threat; when it endangers American lives, it is. And that trumps free speech, I would think.

[Dead_Parrot]

15. The cake is a lie. nt

[SpiralHawk]

16. The Parrot is just resting

[JCMach1]

17. These people are NOT Xtians... say it very loud!!!

[MrScorpio]

18. Yep, that's a cult alright

Isolate and brainwash

[Vinca]

19. You can picture this character passing out the Kool-Aid.

[lib2DaBone]

20. Does he sleep with all the women in his flock? Father many children?

Does he keep a large cache of automatic weapons in the church hall?

[deacon]

21. He's freakin' nuts. I just posted this in Editorials and Articles. n/t k +r

[saltpoint]

22. It would be hard to be a member of this bunch and still

like Ding-Dongs.

By which I mean the pastry, not the other reference.

Although as far as that goes, I doubt if the Joneses would look kindly on either one.

There certainly is a hyper-control issue at work in these "guidelines."

[hugo_from_TN]

23. Now we know why he was run out of Germany.

Kuchen essen ist verboten.

[old mark]

24. He seems pretty crazy to me, but this is the first I heard about his " students"....

Who would want to be like him?


mark

[saltpoint]

25. It would be kinda fun if Rev. Jones agreed to come on

THE DAILY SHOW one evening.

I bet a lot of us would tune in for that.

[Enthusiast]

27. Mind control all the way! nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. You might be screaming, "No, no, no" and all they hear is "Who wants cake?"

Let me tell you something. They all do. They all want cake.