PARSLEY PARSER

Like I've said before, I live within 5 miles of the World Harvest Church. I've met people who know folks who have grown up with Rod Parsnips and have told me the following:

1. He sold pot when in high school

2. The local Emergency Squad has had to make runs in the middle of the night to one of the "compounds" in the area and it involved young women.

3. They shake down old folks for their welfare checks and "if you don't pay, you don't get to come and pray".

I admit this is a "some people say" report, but that's what some people say.

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Americans must be ''Christocrats" -- citizens of both their country and the Kingdom of God -- the Reverend Rod Parsley told his congregation on a recent Sunday at his World Harvest Church, located just outside Columbus, Ohio. "And that is not a democracy; that is a theocracy," he said. "That means God is in control, and you are not."

Headed by Rev. Parsley, a 48-year-old televangelist and author, the World Harvest Church, described recently by The Columbus Dispatch, as "a nondenominational congregation with a regular weekly attendance" of between 10,000 and 12,000, is one of many politicized mega churches popping up all across the country. - Media Transparency

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Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate Islam. In Silent No More, he notes—approvingly—that Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: "It was to defeat Islam, among other dreams, that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492…Columbus dreamed of defeating the armies of Islam with the armies of Europe made mighty by the wealth of the New World. It was this dream that, in part, began America." He urges his readers to realize that a confrontation between Christianity and Islam is unavoidable: "We find now we have no choice. The time has come." And he has bad news: "We may already be losing the battle. As I scan the world, I find that Islam is responsible for more pain, more bloodshed, and more devastation than nearly any other force on earth at this moment." - MOTHERJONES

One cannot begin to understand Christopher Columbus without understanding the world into which he was born. The 15th century was a dynamic century, a century of change. There were many historical events throughout Western Europe that impacted society profoundly. Directly affecting the future explorer much closer to home, however, were three momentous events in and around the Mediterranean:

1) the Conquest of Ceuta in North Africa by the Portuguese in 1415
2) the Fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Turks in 1453, and
3) the defeat of Muslim Granada by the Christian Spaniards in 1492.

All three events were driven by the centuries-long conflict between the Christians and the Muslims. - Thomas C. Tirado, Ph.D.

Again, if three quarters of politics in the Middle East are about public perceptions, it works to the advantage of Moscow when it insinuates that American oil companies are siphoning off Iraq's oil wealth and are making a killing out of high oil prices (though these are also provideing Russia with a windfall); that the US strategy is to establish political and military control over the region; that the US "simply does not want stabilization in Iraq, and will keep a sustained conflict"; that the Bush administration may deliberately launch an intensive air attack against Iran with the sole purpose of crippling Iran's military and economic infrastructure, which would make Tehran's "claims to regional leadership unrealistic for a long time to come", to quote Moscow commentators. - Atimes

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