The Westboro Baptist Church

For those with short attention spans and those who just want to see how the Westboro Baptist Church acts on national television http://tinyurl.com/eocko

Westboro Baptist Church thinks that America is being punished by god America furthermore they believe it is there duty to rejoice when anything bad that happens to America. All this because of Americas (mostly non persecuting) stance on homosexuals. They are the people that run http://www.godhatesfags.com http://www.godhatessweden.com/ http://www.godhatesamerica.com/ and http://www.godhatescanada.com/ just to name a few.

They believe God is responsible for 9/11, Space Shuttle Columbia, West Virginia coal miners, hurricane Katrina, and the war in Iraq. There leader Fred Waldron Phelps once said in his sermons that every one who died on 9/11 was “either a fag or a fag enabler”. They are often found protesting/rejoicing at military funerals and at events relating to a disaster. This sometimes spurs violence.

Most of them are apart of the same family and all live in a compound. On top of that they think that they are the only church on the earth that practices Christianity correctly In my opinion the fit the traditional idea of a cult.

They have several webpages of media and “information”.

http://www.thesignsofthetimes.net does a good job explaining views

http://www.thesignsofthetimes.net/tgfds.html This one they explain why they thank god for dead soldiers (quick time version did not play fully on my pc)

http://www.thesignsofthetimes.net/giat.html This one is titled “God is Americas terror”

http://www.thesignsofthetimes.net/ghy.html This one is titled “God hates you”

http://www.godhatesfags.com/photos/thisyear.html loads of photos

http://www.smellthebrimstone.com/ a wonderfully hateful cartoon.

And of coarse the Wikipedia article for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbor...hurch_(Topeka)

This people are a crazy. Why do they do this? Do they just like to see people die (as said by some children of the church in a sky news report)? Are they trying to put Christianity in a bad light? Attention whores? Or do you think they actually believe what they perch?

What is scary is that they have bible citations to back up there beliefs, the whole can any one find a bible citation contradicts there whole operation? I don’t want to believe the bible tells some Christians to be this crazy.



[This message has been edited by Q777 (edited 06-09-2006).]

Yes, I was researching the Bible and found this interesting verse. 1 John 4:8, "Whoever does not love, does not know God, for God is love." Now, if they claim to be loving people ... I doubt that would hold true to anyone. Therefore there whole argument is moot. I also found this. John 3: 16 "For God so loved the WORLD that he gave his only Son to die for us..." 2 Corinthians 5:15, "and he died for all..." Romans 3:10-12 "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All of turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one." Now from their stance they seem to think of themselves as the righteous ones, when really they are sinners just like those who comit acts of homosexuality, but it is the act that is condemned not the person. So there argument is blasphemous and nonchristian all together according to the Bible.

I want to ask the Westboro Baptist Church's something about their idea. Instead of saying "God is Punishing America" why don't they say that all things from God are good, including when God kills people. This would be radical still but might not offend people as much as blaming them and saying they are being "punished". Rather that all this that is happening to people is good, even the worst things, and that even the death of a soldier is a gift from God.

They are all around messed up people. I don't think they care about anything in the bible outside the first few old testiment books. And even then they don't take it literaly, they seem to think that they are Gods chosen people not the Jews.

You can tell that she is fucking crazy because of her smile. She has the standard brain washed Christian smile.

These people are awesome, and absolutely hillarious.

quote:Originally posted by dearestnight_falcon:

These people are awesome, and absolutely hillarious.

Agreed.

They make me want to join Christianity too. I wish their "love" could go to Blacks and Chinese too...

What the fuck? I see one of these threads on Totse every week. It usually starts with "Have you guys heard of the Westboro baptist?"

[quote]Originally posted by Atomical:

What the fuck? I see one of these threads on Totse every week. It usually starts with "Have you guys heard of the Westboro baptist?"

Sorry I did not realize it was repeat thread, I did a search and it said there was no thread containing the word "Westboro" in the past 35 days.

[quote]quote:Originally posted by Q777:

Originally posted by Atomical:

What the fuck? I see one of these threads on Totse every week. It usually starts with "Have you guys heard of the Westboro baptist?"

Sorry I did not realize it was repeat thread, I did a search and it said there was no thread containing the word "Westboro" in the past 35 days.

they are usually posted in 'i found it on the web' and are usually titled with something around the lines of 'omg, look at this crazy fuckin christian'.

[vazilizaitsev89]

they can all die in my book.

They're all a bunch of scumbags.

[RogueEagle91]

i think they're a bunch of religious zelots who don't know a goddamn thing about their religion.

about the military funerals: one of the local american legion posts has a motorcycle club. they went to one of the funeral protests on their bikes. a cop layed down the rule to their anti-protest. while the church people were singing, the bike motors kept getting revved. pissed those bastards off to no end.

quote:Originally posted by RogueEagle91:

i think they're a bunch of religious zelots who don't know a goddamn thing about their religion.

about the military funerals: one of the local american legion posts has a motorcycle club. they went to one of the funeral protests on their bikes. a cop layed down the rule to their anti-protest. while the church people were singing, the bike motors kept getting revved. pissed those bastards off to no end.

heres some videos of what i think you are talking about. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...593&q=Westboro http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...833&q=Westboro

[FunkyZombie]

I just don't understand why these assholes have yet to get their asses handed to them by enraged funeral attendees. If any of my buddies died in Iraq it would be a dark day if these asses showed up at the funeral.