Tennessee Minister Also Planning Quran Burning

Rev. Terry Jones's now globally maligned idea to burn Qurans on the 9th anniversary of September 11th is receiving praise from one Tennessee minister who now says that he's going to incinerate the sacred Islamic text on Saturday and post the video online.

According to a report from Nashville's Tennessean, Rev. Bob Old of Springfield, Tennessee recently gave his support to Rev. Jones of the Dove World Center Outreach in Gainesville, Fla., and said that his idea to set fire to Qurans was good.

The Tennessean reports that Old believes the United States would be better without Muslims altogether:

"If they want to have their religion, they can have it somewhere else," said Old, former pastor of First Baptist Church in Joelton and Academy Heights Baptist Church in Gallatin, which merged with another church. He no longer has a congregation and instead runs an evangelical ministry called Disciples of Christ.

"I believe that other religions are a threat to our faith and our beliefs," Old also told the Tennessean. "People may say that I am crazy, but I am not."

The list of people opposing Quran-burning has grown rapidly over the past few days. President Obama added his name to the list Thursday, a roster that includes Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and General David Petraeus, among others.

Comments

[brownfrown]

09:52 AM on 09/12/2010

The article says nothing about him planning a burning? Just the title?

[the Lensman]

10:10 AM on 09/11/2010

As a Pantheist I believe, "If they want to have their religion, they can have it somewhere else," So pastor Old guy take your own advice.

[Red Crow]

07:55 PM on 09/10/2010

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

[the Lensman]

10:05 AM on 09/11/2010

That my friend is the evangelical movement in a nutshell.

[Havana Thinks]

01:41 AM on 09/12/2010

U have said it all! I cannot think of a more thorough CONfession -- ever.

Faved and Fanned!

[flyinskyler]

07:24 PM on 09/10/2010

Note that this minister no longer has a congregation either. Hmm..I wonder why?? I am glad that he drags my home state of Tennessee into this ignorant thinking. First, its a minister in Florida and then a minister here doing the same thing. These religious fanatics are really trying to give the south a bad name. Even though this is technically the bible belt, I hope that people in other parts of the country and the world for that matter do not make assumptions about the south from these two ignorant overzealous idiots. The bible does not teach this type of behavior and in living in the US, anyone with any education of class, should learn to be tolerant of others beliefs without this type of behavior. I know this is going to sound bad, but it sounds like these two ministers need to jump in the fire themselves during this burning..lol

[the Lensman]

10:17 AM on 09/11/2010

These id-giots don't see the paralell that as they lump all Muslems in with Al Qaida because of their craziness so does the rest of the world lump all America in with these few crazies.

[nonvoters]

04:46 PM on 09/10/2010

Once again a sign that this country is devolving and are society is decaying into the nut jobs those that defend nut jobs those that encourage nut jobs, and the small powerless portion of sane people. I say powerless because you cant fight this kind of insanity unless you are willing to be insane yourself or take away our freedoms. Which is exactly what some people secretly are hoping for by enacting laws like the patriot act. Great name the patriot act but to bad to be a patriot you have to be willing to let the govt. take away your freedoms.

[masanf]

02:09 AM on 09/12/2010

Yeah, one lone guy decided to burn a book and it shows that America is devolving. Give me a break.

[Mundane Egg]

01:59 PM on 09/10/2010

"People may say that I am crazy, but I am not." - Well now that we have that cleared up...

[vulpecula762mm]

10:32 AM on 09/10/2010

LOL he no longer has a congregation... so it will be one schmuck burning a book online.

Stop feeding it!

[Libgirl746]

08:46 AM on 09/10/2010

"If they want to have their religion, they can have it somewhere else"

This is no man of God. He's an attention seeking moron. He ought to be ignored.

[kamachanda]

08:46 AM on 09/10/2010

Stupidity is found to be highly contagious. There is no vaccine being developed.

[justobserve]

08:39 AM on 09/10/2010

So now everyone who wants fifteen minutes of fame would do something outrageous to get their names on the news. They might get millions coming their ways just like Palin! If the media ignore them, there would be less of them!

[oonamanoona]

08:19 AM on 09/10/2010

Monkey see, monkey do. This provides further proof of the theory of evolution along with solidifying the fact that we have quite a few around that need to evolve more.

[gevan]

10:32 AM on 09/10/2010

This is Tennessee. No monkeys allowed to be related to huimans in any fashion.

[soo tuck choong]

05:24 AM on 09/10/2010

Burning a book, any book at all, doesn't do anything. If I'm the publisher, I'm more than happy, because I can still publish because the people will buy it again, I make more profit. But disallowing the book to be published or available in that area is the most hurtful.

[LOL123]

04:52 AM on 09/10/2010

Well, I think the police can lock them up for intentionally inciting a riot or it could go under "hate crimes"....um, something like that. But then there are people who under the table want to destabilize America right before the elections in Nov. to bad we can't lock them up too.

[yuliya vaughan]

01:54 AM on 09/10/2010

This is shocking to me how the pastor could say such thing: "If they want their religion they can have it somewhere else." He is religious man and has such strong hateful believes to other religion.
This is America, and we have the freedom of religion here. Many people prejudice by talking bad about Islam. They do not know anything, they never lived in the Muslim country.
Burning the Quran is the most stupid and meanest idea. Those people just embarrassing themselves by acting like heartless, pathetic people.
Another idea is that may be this pastor just want some publicity and this is his way to get it.

[iMissMollyIvins]

01:01 AM on 09/10/2010

" "I believe that other religions are a threat to our faith and our beliefs," Old also told the Tennessean..."
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This tells me that Old's faith and his beliefs are weak & shallow, and considering his rhetoric, it doesn't come as any surprise.

[abbadabba]

01:14 PM on 09/10/2010

And might suggest why he doesn't have a congregation anymore.