Florida pastor's daughter says 'he needs help'

[IndianaGreen]

Florida pastor's daughter says "he needs help"

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!"

<snip>

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39099740/ns/us_news-security/

[Junkdrawer]

1. Ya think?

:shrug:

[Peacetrain]

2. Ah yep.. I can see that

[pnwmom]

3. Can she please try to have him committed?

Must be awful to have this guy as a father.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

6. Don't they still have the Baker Act in Florida

to deal with this kind of thing?

[PeaceNikki]

4. In other news, "water is wet"

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Whoa, the OP is tombstoned.

What did him in?

[proteus_lives]

11. That is surprising.

IG was around for awhile.

I'll miss that crazy commie.

[Mimosa]

12. I can't help but wonder what happened.

IG was usually nice afaik. :(

And posted good topics.

[Imajika]

13. That is surprising...

I will miss IG. I disagreed with her all the time, but she was consistent in her views and made the place more interesting imo.

[PeaceNikki]

5. Entire interview here:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,716858,00.html

‎"... 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."

Seriously, this loon is another David Koresh

[baldingrockwarlord]

7. Baker Act?

Isn't there something in Florida called the Baker Act where they can at least temporarily hospitalize him for eval?

[Junkdrawer]

8. And you know who needs even more help?

Those in the Media who give this man a podium on the national stage.

[Festivito]

9. "When we brought up the church finances, he disappeared the next day."

Hmmmm.