Westboro Baptist Church

[bobclean]

Westboro Baptist Church has their website blocked. She is arrogant and clearly deluded, but do you agree with the campaign against them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ssqPXnhmVk

[Whickerman]

arrogant? They're not arrogant. They're the scum of the earth and whilst I believe everyone should have freedom of expression they don't allow others dignity - including picketing of funerals etc. Would I be happy to see them disappear? yip.

[Whickerman]

just by the way - their website (the site of a 'Christian' group) is www.godhatesfags.com - classy

[jomifl]

God loves all his children..even those from Faggotania bless them,

[bobclean]

Agreed Whickerman, I'm all for free speech, but only up to a point. These idiots go well past that point. Their extreme, intolerant views would be more acceptable in the 17th century, not the 21st.

[beso]

Just another example of how anything can be read into the Bible.

The beliefs of the followers of this church are not so important to them and are simply the weapons they use. What is more important is their attitude of blame and hatred because it gives them such motivation.

In another circumstance they could just as easily belonged to the KKK.

Their primary goal is to distract from looking at themselves for they know they would find their own depth of character quite inadequate.

[birdie1971]

Did anyone watch Louis Theroux's documentary on these, ahem... people?

http://video.google.c...-7735501683185935638#


Many things stood out when I watched it but one thing more than anything else sticks in my mind – the glee on a teenage girl's face when she tell Louis that he will spend an eternity in hell for being an atheist. She was almost laughing at what she believed would be the very real torture of another person for the whole of eternity...

That one act by a teenager amply demonstrates the inherent and inescapable evil of organised religion – there is only one God and He is my God. Everyone else is wrong and will burn in Hell as a consequence of their ignorance.

[chakka35]

birdie, I have just watched as much of that film as I can stomach, which was no more than about 20 minutes.
Plainly the adults in that church are insane in a particularly evil way. I can find no sympathy for them at all. What sickens me is the way that they are brainwashing children to be as demented and as hating of humanity.as they are themselves. This is surely, taken to extremes, what Richard Dawkins meant when he said that such behaviour amounts to child abuse.

Ugh....