Extremist Internet evangelist Bill Keller launches 9-11 Christian Center, slams Beck, Mormons, Islam

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 06:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33XrHOKIWQI   Posted on YouTube: September 05, 2010 By YouTube Member: j1234542 Views on YouTube: 15   Posted on DU: September 05, 2010 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 1817

 

To an audience of about 50 people -- fully half of whom were members of the press -- Pastor Bill Keller launched his 9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero this morning with a fiery sermon targeting Muslims and Mormons as hell-bound followers of false faiths. Keller took aim in particular at Glenn Beck, a Mormon, and Imam Rauf, the organizer of the Park51 Islamic community center.

Keller, an extremist Internet evangelist from Florida, spoke at a drab ballroom of the Marriott hotel two blocks south of ground zero for the launch of his Christian Center, a response to Park51. He told the audience, which included a couple of 9/11 Truther protesters, that he is scouting three possible locations for a permanent church.

Keller regularly assails Muslims as pedophiles and attacks Mormons and gay people. But his church has drawn no objections from opponents of the mosque who have consistently argued that the neighborhood around ground zero is sacred ground. Keller also has a history of trying to profit off of political controversies; last year, for example, he hosted a Birther informercial.

The service was punctuated by gospel singing and a testimonial from a voluntary firefighter who was a first reponder on September 11. Despite the small turnout, the service attracted journalists from the New York Times, the New York Post, AOL, Newsweek, Dutch television, and the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, among others.

Playing to the press, Keller said several times he is not a "hate-monger" while also repeatedly calling Islam a "1,400-year-old lie."

http://www.salon.com/news/911_christian_center/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/09/05/911_christian_center_inaugural

[stray cat]

1. Would DUers be against one?

[oldhippydude]

8. hey

anything that keeps Christian fundies fighting among themselves, cant be all bad!!!

[cartach]

11. ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY AGAINST EOM

[Plucketeer]

2. I just wanna

move to a different planet.

[rocktivity]

3. I can't decide whose hair is scarier

His or Jim Traficant's (who, I understand, is out of jail and running for office).

x(
rocktivity

[greiner3]

4. "What the truth is..."

And he holds up an English translation. Lol, the irony is delicious.

[1American]

5. Keller vs. Beck

What's the difference? He sound more Beckian than Beck. But, he got the attention he craves!

[breadandwine]

7. The difference is a rally of 50 vs. tens of thousands.

But okay, I give up. You win. From now on only clerics I agree with are allowed to criticize Glen Beck. Let Glenn Beck and his followers lead America to fascism.

He's the messiah.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. That douchebag is one letter short of a Mormon. . .

I mean, does he not see the irony of preaching in a hotel whose chain was founded by
J. Willard Marriott, himself a Mormon?

:evilgrin:

[Caretha]

14. Snicker

The flim flam knoweth no shame. Ya think God set him up?

[penndragon69]

9. Christians know about lies.

Their own faith is also based on a set of extremely questionable
set of writings and beliefs.

The pot calls the kettle black!

[AsahinaKimi]

10. Maybe someone can suggest a cage match

with this guy and Glenn Beck. They can hit each other over the head with their truths.
Maybe they would knock each other out.

[Caretha]

15. I'd Pay To See That!

and I'm broke.

[bluestateguy]

12. Good. Keep 'em fighting among themselves.

Hopefully he'll tell his congregation to stay home on election day if Mitt the Mormon is nominated in 2 years.

[sulphurdunn]

13. This is a turf war.

The Beck Mob is muscling in on the Jesus Mob's territory. Beck wants the faithful to by gold from his sponsors, who make him rich, while the televangelists want the same rubes to send their tax exempt donations to support their leer jets and thoroughbred horses. There isn't enough business to go around. It could get ugly.

[Grassy Knoll]

16. Kinda like this book.....

[DemocraticPilgrim]

17. Exactly evangelists should be coming after him in fact defending the Pres. as he's out to convert...

folks to mormonism. But really considering all the BS it's more separate from that it's moron-ism.

[MrModerate]

18. America has always been full of religious extremists . . .

In a simpler time, a nutbag like this guy would be a derelict hooting on a corner, but today anybody can be heard anywhere. Sure it gives nonreligious people like myself the pip, but I don't think there's anything historic about this level of elegiac bigotry.

[herbm]

19. The enemy of my enemy is still full of it.

[L0oniX]

20. I await Mr Keller's fall ...it will be well deserved. Say hi to Swaggart, Baker and Haggard for us..

on your way down.