False Religions and Real Distractions - "Thank You Jesus!"

"What is the difference between Baptists and Methodists? Methodists can read."

Is there a time accounting that tallies up how long a religion has to exist to cross over from cult to a 'religion'?

The American Spectator : False Religions and Real Distractions

By ROSS KAMINSKY on 10.11.11

Robert Jeffress's anti-Mormonism is the last thing Republicans need.

Robert Jeffress, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, made news last week when referring to Mormonism as a cult while introducing Texas Governor Rick Perry to the Values Voters Summit.

In the past couple of days, Jeffress is doing anything but backing away from his comments, saying on Sunday that "Part of a pastor's job is to warn his people and others about false religions. Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Mormonism are all false religions. And I stand by those statements." [Some of these are much older than the Baptist.]

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The "mainstream" media are already foaming at the mouth over Jeffress's remarks, using them to reinforce their journalism school-learned bias against Republicans as small-minded bible thumpers, or perhaps, to coin a phrase, as people bitterly clinging to religion.

Liberals, like the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, are already making parallels such as wondering if Jeffress's statements are Rick Perry's "Reverend Wright moment." But there's a big difference: those same liberals wanted nothing to do with the Reverend Wright story even though Barack Obama's attendance at the anti-Semitic Wright's America-hating church for two decades said much about that candidate.

They didn't want to talk about any of Obama's other unsavory friends, either, such as unrepentant terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, or criminal and helpful house-finder Tony Rezko (except perhaps to say that Obama had given away Rezko's donations and was distancing himself from the convicted felon.)

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