Radical ministers look up! There's a new face in town: Pastor Dennis Terry. He's Tony Perkins' Pastor and the man of the day in Santorum territory. His "Get Out!" statement to non-Christians and liberals caused a stir, but his backpeddling may cause people to give him blowback as an idiot.

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Barack Obama had his Jeremiah Wright. John McCain had his John  Hagee  (and Rod Parsley). Rick Perry had his... Rick Perry. Now Rick  Santorum  has his Dennis Terry.

In a diatribe against "liberals," Buddhists and Muslims (and by extension, all other political beliefs and religious faiths), Rev. Dennis Terry introduced Rick  Santorum  and told all of the imagined enemies of America to "Get out!" And while other religious leaders have voiced similar "Christian only" sentiments, it was Terry's vehemence that shook the country. It was a vehemence that laid raw hatred at  everyone's  feet.

Now Dennis Terry is trying to tell people that the video was "edited" and his comments "twisted." He is about love, after all, as all Christian are taught to love their brothers, even their enemies.

Right.

Just as David Barton revises American history to prove that America was founded as a totally Christian Nation, Terry is revising his own statements and actions right before our eyes (see both videos below). If it weren't so mind-numbingly disingenuous, his response to the  blowback  would be considered very low comedy.*

The hate-love back-peddling and specious reasoning is all around us, albeit in slightly different forms. Take, for example, Pastor Steven Anderson, who's strip mall church received national notoriety when he called for the death of Obama. When his Faithful Word Baptist Church was listed as a hate group by the  SPLC  (because of extreme homophobic sentiments), he retorted:

( Right Wing Watch )

"Am I all about hate? No I'm sure I'm more about love than I am hate," Anderson said. "I do hate homosexuals and if hating homosexuals makes our church a hate group then that's what we are."

The church leader, with a Bible in his hand during the interview, said he preaches his hatred for homosexuals and wishes death upon them.

Then there's classic Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association n the same subject: 

That's the reason we oppose the normalization of homosexuality, it's not because we don't like homosexuals it's because we love them. I mean listen to me, if you love people, if you care about people, if they matter to you, their well-being is important to you, do you want to encourage them, do you want to support a lifestyle, do you want to subsidize and reward and provide special legal protections for behavior that's gonna make them more likely to experience depression, suicidal  ideation , homelessness and domestic violence? 

Disseminating false information is one way to get you listed as a hate group by the  SPLC : depression and suicide are caused by he pressures of moralizers like Bryan Fischer, homelessness exists mostly for gay teens kicked out of their homes and domestic violence in gay households is so far below the national average as to be comparatively non-existent. 

Assumptions, purposely skewed reasoning, and generalizations are the stock-in-trade of people like Anderson, Fischer...and Terry: 

1. People do not worship Buddha in the same sense they would worship God. Buddha is NOT a god. 

2. The same goes for Muslims "worshiping" Mohammed. Mohammed is a  prophet, a messenger.

3.For all the pronouncements of David Barton, the America-was-founded-as-a-Christian-nation meme has never held water with reputable historians. 

4. Not all liberals are "naysayers" and unpatriotic. It has even been argued that people who criticize their own country are, in a sense, more patriotic than their flag-waving compatriots.

5. "Get Out!" means just that: Terry wants people to leave who disagree with him. 

6. Allah is the same God as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That's why it is called an Abrahamic religion. Islam reveres the Old Testament of the Bible and Muslims are taught to respect Jesus as a prophet. 

Terry sounds as if he gets his material from the ridiculous Conservapedia.

In addition, Terry also negates the power of his own oratory: his apoplectic "Get Out!" fires hatred from ever pore. It is unqualified hatred, raw and primeval. He can discount his words, but not the tone. 

" 'Patriot' - The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."

- Mark Twain.

 

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Authors Bio:
Rev. Dan Vojir is has been writing/blogging on religion and politics for the better part of ten years. A former radio talk show host (Strictly Books €" Talk America Radio Network) and book publisher, Dan has connected with some of the most interesting people of our time: Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Alan Ginsburg, Armisted Maupin, Anne Rice, Grace Slick, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Patricia Nell Warren, and Betty White.

He is also an ordained minister in the ULC and has studied extensively on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality. Additional articles can be read on his blog, The Devil and Dan Vojir.

Future goals and activities: a new ministry focusing on reaching personal spiritual levels without the outside influence of proselytism or evangelism called The Church of the Inner Preacher. This ministry will be included in a new website The Devil and Dan Vojir.

Vojir's main goal: to root out hypocrisy in religion and politics. "If only one person is saved from being killed or bashed by inane bigotry, then I'll have accomplished what I was put on earth to do: To Live and Help Live."
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