I’m waiting for him to kick his entire family out and put up signs that say, “God hates anyone who isn’t me.” I’m only half-kidding. That man is fucking insane.
I don’t think this is changing tactics. They seem to have always hated other religions…
…and their own religion. I was watching the Louis Theroux documentary on Westboro Baptist Church today and in one of the clips they were holding signs saying ‘God hates Jews’ outside what they called a ‘Jew Church’. Their reasoning was that they say Jews killed Jesus (Romans get off scot free again!). So I don’t think this is some sort of big shift. They also picketed outside a Swedish vacuum cleaner shop. Thismight explain why.
Band Name!
I think it’s “are Jews gay?”
Does anybody know what happened with that multimillion dollar verdictagainst Clan Phelps and WBC? I remember that some of their assets were frozen and they got into some trouble with the court for not reporting some of their holdings, but that’s the last I heard and it was over a year ago. I assume it’s under appeal but apparently it hasn’t stopped them from protesting or media whoring (though why any media outlet gives them airspace is beyond me).
(The plaintiff is the father of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq whose funeral the Phelps picketed; the original verdict was $12 million+/- but it was reduced to something like $5 million, which is still more than the church has, but Snyder has said that while he realizes he’ll never collect it all he does want to take every penny the family has.)
Yes, it is nice. Because the hateful shit that the WBC spews belongs in the archaic remnants of history for people to gawk at, not as a platform for a debate or serious discussion. Their hateful rhetoric is of a kind espoused by evil, not simply an annoying and ignorant rabble. If they could, they’d burn us all for believing differently. I dont want to do that, but I will protect myself from them, and if it takes a little bit of evil to eradicate greater evil, then so be it. Such purposeful hatred cannot be reasoned with, and given the condemnation of eternal suffering they believe even tangential players related to the issue should suffer, then anal rape is actually quite a benign judgement. They should suffer a far worse fate
I kinda think there are less extreme ways of protecting yourself from Fred Phelps than by raping him to death. Actually, I’m pretty sure that “Ignoring him and going on about your business,” would do it.
Freddie’s spawn protested my church last week. Sniff I feel so proud!
Actually, I felt a little bad, only because my pastor is a nice man who goes out of his way to set up a food/clothing/shelter program for the homeless, and he shouldn’t have to read signs calling him a whore, even wielded by crazies. But really, how can anyone do anything but pity the children born into that family?
The fact that simply shooting them all would achieve this objective just as well makes one suspect that there’s more at work here than just self-defense.
Of course, I proposed boiling him in his own juices via lightning bolt, so I can’t really criticize. But seriously speaking, it hurts your credibility to claim that you’re arguing for prolonged torture by dismemberment and anal rape from a moral basis. (In my opinion a burning hatred and desire for revenge is the only rationale that seems plausible as a basis for this position, though the “it’s the internet - nobody ever says what they mean” defense might work too.)
As I read this I was wondering why WBC hadn’t already been sued into oblivion???
This shit has been going on for how many years?? I’m a former-fundie borderline nut, but even at my extreme worst I would have been happy to exact a Christian-style Jihad and exterminate the absolute evil spewed by these animals in my saviour’s name.
So if Fred Phelps jumped off a cliff, you’d definitely jump off too?
If he’s really such an evil person, maybe we could try arresting him and putting him in a psychiatric hospital where although he won’t be cured, at least he won’t bother the rest of us.
Or we could ignore him.
If that doesn’t work, then we can investigate your anal rape torture scenarios.
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[…bangs head on desk…] How did the beautiful teachings of Jesus become so warped by these demon possessed Troglodytes? Dear God.
Liberal, it’s one guy. And he says what he says because he’s nuts. He’s a sadist who enjoys inflicting pain. And he has kept his children and grandchildren under his thumb for years, all for the purpose of feeding his own ego and making himself into a biblical Patriarch.
People get all upset about this guy and his kids, but for the life of me I can’t understand why. You don’t get upset that the guy on the streetcorner is ranting and raving about Jesus, why should you get upset when this guy does?
Well, you’ve got a point there. When you’re right, you’re right. Fuck 'im.
How come there’s no “God Hates Hell’s Angels” or “God Hates Crips”? Seems curious they never protest anyone who might actually take them apart.
They have protested at the funerals of several dozen Marines, Army Rangers, etc. One would have thought that the commanding officers of the dead soldiers would have had more sense…
You know, food and water can be absorbed through the rectum . . . just in case he goes on a hunger strike.
“The devil can quote Scripture for his own ends”. And if he can delude some idiot into doing it for him, so much the better.
Wait, didn’t YogSosoth already propose that idea? 
Ah, it’s the crucified Christ thing. I was hoping it was something new.