yes they’re real, no, except for his extended family.
Hey, get yer paws off our dykes, dammit!
Funny you should mention the dykes. This weekend marked the 50th aniversary of the Big Flood of February 1953, where in a freak storm, the dykes gave way, flooding almost the entire province of Zeeland, and parts of Zuid-Holland and Noord-Brabant. The flood took over 1,800 lives, and left many more homeless.
Reverends in the villages that lost half their population sometimes STILL had the fucking nerve to preach that the flood was God’s wrath. Remember, these were estremely religious villages in rural Netherlands of 1953. I doubt there was a lot of weed smoking and whore banging going on back then. Let alone fags!
It just goes to show: evil comes in many forms, and at times it hides as religion. No offense to any true Christians reading this - they know who they are, and would undoubtedly agree that Phelps and his ilk do NOT represent Chrisitanity as a whole.
Usually, when Phred spews his bilge, I can at least follow his logic. That logic is tenuous and usually eye-rollingly ridiculous, but it does create a tenuous connection between the hellbound sinner/sinners in question and faggotry.
Here, though, I’m at a loss. I can understand why he believes God smote the Columbia in retribution against our fag-enabling nation. (It’s horseshit, but I understand it.) What I don’t understand is why that necessarily means the astronauts are going to hell. I mean, none of them was gay to my knowledge, and for all Phred knows they may have been just as strongly opposed to faggotry as he is (and as he claims God is). (I doubt it, of course.)
Fred Phelps is one of very few human beings on this planet that I have no use for. When he dies, I will not be saddened.
Jumping Jesus in Jeri Ryan’s Jumpsuit! What an asshole!
Well, I was just moved to say a short prayer:
“Dear Lord, please save Fred Phelps’ soul from hell.”
Because I think he’s beyond any mortal help … What must it be like, to be that man? I can hardly imagine anything more horrible than having to view the world through his eyes.
If you blow up the CN Tower, ya gotta blow up the Skydome too. It’s the vagina symbol to go with the CN Tower.
No, stop laughing. Find a picture of them. It’s true. If the dome was open and everyone in the upper deck wore fur coats it would look like the world’s largest hoochie. It’s no coincidence that the Jumbotron is right where the clitoris should be. Phallus and vagina, right next to each other. It’s a gigantic, million-ton fertility symbol. I’m not sure if it’s disgusting or really cool.
However, I’ll say one thing for Fred Phelps; the man knows how to come up with excellent names for rock bands:
**Fagjunk Theology
**or just **Fagjunk
Idolatrous Nation
The Sodomite Propagandists
Adumbration**
Wouldn’t you buy a record by “Fagjunk”? I know I would. The world needs a really wicked gay-punk-sacreligious-imagery band.
Has anyone started to guess that maybe, just maybe, Phelps is pulling our legs here? I mean, I would guess that the man has no love for gay people, but knowing how he makes his living I can see why he’d spout nonsense just to make people mad.
“Any other interpretation of the tragic events of Feb. 1 is rank atheism and fagjunk theology by sodomite propagandists.” … Does that make Phelps the one true prophet of God? No other interpretations? How could he make that claim plausible even to other radical right Christians?
Yeah, but old Fred condemns everyone to hell. You know, there was a time when a religious leader threatening damnation meant something. The pope issued an excommunication, the Ayatollah issued a fatwa on Rushdie, and it was a big deal, but for Fred, it’s a kind of religious Tourette’s. He’s ruining the whole damnation process.
Phelps earned quite a bit of notoriety after Matthew Sheppard was killed in a very gay-bashing that was so brutal and cruel that it earned international attention (I’m a skinny 5’4" female – Matthew Sheppard was even smaller than me. He was tortured pistol whipped and tied to a fence-post where he was left to die).
Yes, he has a following. They spend a lot of time picketing the funerals of dead homosexuals (like Matthew Sheppard), or dead suspected homosexuals with their, “God hates fags!” and “He’s gone straight to hell” signs. During the trial of Mattehw Sheppard’s killers, his church had organized a “God hates fags” protest on the courthouse steps in support of the killers.
In a remarkable display of compassion and humanity, a separate “good Christian group” calling themselves “Angels of Peace” (IIRC), built themselves wings and passively counter-protested Phelps by raising their wings up to block the media’s view of Phelps and his group – interfering with the national press coverage he was trying so hard to get.
His comments on the Coulmbia disaster leave me speechless. Just when you think he can’t sink any lower… shaking head in disbelief
Do NOT think these twits represent the majority of muslims. I wouldn’t even call them fundamentalists, as they ignore large chunks of the Quran in favor of their silly interpretations.
Every religion has their Fred Phelps’s.
Hijack ended
Martin
But appreciated.
I never did quite get what the shuttle folks had done to earn the damnation. Anyone want to clarify?
Musing…
Come to think of it, Phelps has really lost all ability to offend me. Several years ago I went to take a look at his website – it had and animated gif of Matthew Sheppard’s head bobbing in hellfire. If you mouseover the gif, Sheppard’s mouth opens à la David Hasselhoff on South Park and a voice shriek’s “for God’s sake, listen to Phelps.” It was so over-the-top in juvenile ridiculouslness, that Phelps just no longer has enough credibility as a spewer of hatred to even motivate me to muster some vague indignation.
It would be like having Bozo the Clown or Homer Simpson standing in front of you, pointing at you and chanting: “You are a stupidhead!.. You are a stupidhead!..”
His ranting is just so childish and silly that I just can’t take it seriously enough to be the slightest bit perturbed by it. (Though I kind of like the phrase “Fagjunk Theology.”)
Do we have to share humanity with this asshammer?
They didn’t do anything. It is America that is being punished. God just made an example of them because they are a part of the whole fag-enabling system, dontcha know.
You know what Phelps is missing? That “Haw! Haw! Haw!..” Jack Chick laughter. Hmm. Definitley.
The shuttle is a symbol of sodomite hubris? Or something?
God is good.
The Devil is bad.
So, how come when something bad happens, God takes the fall for it?
Nobody ever blames the Devil for anything. It’s always “God’s will”.
Fuck that. It was the Devil what done it, and that’s final.
If you were someone who “Reverend” Phelps believed was not bound for Hell, then you would have some problems.
Fred and his friends shouldn’t bother us for much longer – I put a death curse on them.
:dubious: 
When Freddy-boy finally departs the living, he’ll probably end up in a special secion of heaven where he’ll be all alone. “Hey,” he’ll ask, “where is everybody?” The response will be, “In hell, right where you put them.”
Eh, if it’s a legpull, it’s a “whoosh” the size of the Starship Enterprise.
No, he’s for real, bad cess to 'im.
Westboro Baptist’s statement of belief (note: There’s another “Westboro Baptist Church” in Ottawa, Canada, so you have to make sure that you get the Topeka, Kansas church.)
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/aboutwbc.html
[sigh] Gotta love someone who’s still fighting the “Arminian heresy”. :rolleyes:
http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/arminian.stm
http://www.byronbible.org/ask/man/arminian2.html
I’m amazed that someone who is so obsessed with homosexuality has time to stop and dally with such esoteric fine points of sectarian Protestant theology.
I’m also amazed at someone who thinks that picketing Bill Clinton’s mother’s funeral with signs reading “FAGS BURN IN HELL” counts as a “peaceful sidewalk demonstration”.