# The Phelps make it official: God Hates The World **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913 "2008-06-23T14:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/41 "2008-06-23T22:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] The Phelps clan (and I’d bet a million bucks there’s incest in there) was featured in a documentary I watched last night (about gay bars in small towns in Mississippi). You’d think it’d be entertaining to see such an intense concentration of insanity in a small group, but it’s just depressing. [/QUOTE] I think I instant watched that on netflix … if it is all it made me want to do was win a lottery and start a chain of cute little gay bars across the worse areas of the south … ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/42 "2008-06-23T22:59:38Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] How strange that Fred Phelps and [Slayer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Hates_Us_All) are finally in agreement. [/QUOTE] HEY! My cousin played drums on that album. & I resent the slander implicit! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/43 "2008-06-23T23:42:20Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] I live in Topeka, and have all my life. I was born just a few months before Fred slunk into town in 1955. He’s been a whack job as long as I can remember, the picketing only started in 1992. Back when Fred lost his law licenses he made his kids sell candy to “support the church”. They couldn’t come home until they’d sold a certain amount. But the candy suppliers cut him off because he wouldn’t pay for the stuff. I really need to drive by their compound and see if they’ve changed the banner on the side of the church. It usually reads " [GodHatesAmerica.com](http://GodHatesAmerica.com)". And there’s a flag pole with the American and Canadian flags. Canadian above the American, and both flying upside down. [/QUOTE] I remember you mentioning going to school with his kids. I also remember [this site](http://blank.org/addict/). After reading this, I have nothing but pity for those kids-they didn’t have a chance in the world. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/44 "2008-06-24T00:16:52Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Hey-isn’t “Phelps” an Irish name? [/QUOTE] Hey, even Hitler was Jewish! ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/45 "2008-06-24T00:33:16Z")
I do not even believe in God, but I am pretty sure he hates North Korea. What more can Kim Jong-il do to make the list? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/46 "2008-06-24T00:37:03Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] …the [Ireland page](http://www.godhatesireland.com/) is practically a textbook example of how not to build a web page. [/QUOTE] But…it’s got GAY LEPRECHAUNS!! That’s gotta count for something! ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/47 "2008-06-24T03:17:56Z")
I think Phelps is a Welsh name. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/48 "2008-06-24T03:25:56Z")
[QUOTE=Fuji] Hey! Ireland made the big-time! Woo hoo! [/QUOTE] WTF! Sweden and Ireland get pictures and loads of pages, China has video for crying out loud, and all Canada gets is a lousy 1/2 a page of whiny drek with Alberta spelt “Albert”? I get the feeling God isn’t even ticked off at Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/49 "2008-06-24T03:59:34Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] “For God so hated the world that He inflicted Fred Phelps on it.” Theist, atheist or other, I think you have to admit this is a pretty compelling argument. [/QUOTE] And I thought that the Ten Plagues of Egypt were bad! God really has it in for us, I guess. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/50 "2008-06-24T05:19:29Z")
[QUOTE=KGS] But…it’s got GAY LEPRECHAUNS!! That’s gotta count for something! [/QUOTE] Not just any leprechauns either - the Fighting Irish leprechaun preparing to sodomize the Lucky Charms one. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/51 "2008-06-24T05:48:44Z")
I know this gets asked about pictures all the time, but doesn’t the one on [this page](http://www.godhatesmexico.com/) look photoshopped? (about halfway down on the left, the kid holding the sign) ---
**Author:** ![Ducktail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/52 "2008-06-24T06:15:42Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] I know this gets asked about pictures all the time, but doesn’t the one on [this page](http://www.godhatesmexico.com/) look photoshopped? (about halfway down on the left, the kid holding the sign) [/QUOTE] Yeah, they didn’t even bother to make the angle of the kid match up with that of the street scene behind him. ---
**Author:** ![Rael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rael)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/53 "2008-06-24T06:58:52Z")
I can’t stand these fuckers. While I have to defend their right to say what they want as a matter of principle, I don’t care if behind the scenes someone takes the opportunity to beat the living shit out of them next time they pull some stunt like picketing a funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/54 "2008-06-24T08:27:32Z")
Come on, this _must_ be a spoof. A world map and they have pages on _six_ countries? Every single one of the others are “coming soon”? ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/55 "2008-06-24T09:59:38Z")
I was expecting more on Canada. After all, they got stopped from protesting there. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/56 "2008-06-24T10:19:10Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Come on, this _must_ be a spoof. A world map and they have pages on _six_ countries? Every single one of the others are “coming soon”? [/QUOTE] I think they started with the ones they already had “Gad hates…” websites for. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/57 "2008-06-24T10:26:41Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] I think they started with the ones they already had “Gad hates…” websites for. [/QUOTE] Of course. Still, 180+ pages are “coming soon”? That doesn’t seem spoofish to you? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/58 "2008-06-24T10:44:37Z")
If I didn’t know any better I’d say that Jack Chick and Westboro were both political strawmans, i.e. the kind of imitations the people on the other side IMAGINE radicals are like. Every day I’m waiting for the breaking story of them admitting it, but no, I still like to imagine it though. Anyway guys, be careful, God makes people able to do things, terrible things. I mean Elijah and Elisha were like the original super powered tag team duo, I swear those guys could kill Superman by blinking (they could also call down tactical divine bear strikes on annoying kids!). Who knows what the great powers of the Phelps’ encompass? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/59 "2008-06-24T12:57:13Z")
[QUOTE=Faruiza] Just picked a country at random and took a look at Sweden. There are pictures of the royal family there, and the text to accompany it parses like it was written by a 12 year old boy. They look gay and slutty. They must be if they LOOK like it! Pfft. [/QUOTE] Hey, it takes one to know one! ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913/60 "2008-06-24T13:54:23Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] I’m so relieved to know that God hates Canada, too. [/QUOTE] If God hates us so much, why is our [website](http://www.godhatescanada.com/) never updated? We even legalized gay marriage nation wide and they still wouldn’t give us a spiffy one! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-phelps-make-it-official-god-hates-the-world/453913.md?page=4)