Something I like about the Westbro Baptist Church

[Guitar's Cry]

I think protesting at funerals takes the "open and honest" thing too far.

 

[Rakhel]

I think protesting at funerals takes the "open and honest" thing too far.

I remember seeing one video footage where they tried to protest a soldier's funeral only to have a biker gang, with huge American flags, standing in front of the Westborough church, blocking signs and(I think) singing so loud it drowned out anything the church had to say.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

I remember seeing one video footage where they tried to protest a soldier's funeral only to have a biker gang, with huge American flags, standing in front of the Westborough church, blocking signs and(I think) singing so loud it drowned out anything the church had to say.

Yeah, there was a bike group that would follow them around and block them out which was really kind of neat.

 

[Smoke]

What this really means is that Christians stand in the way of the enjoyment of evil. Shame on them for wanting to love them enough to seek to get them out of evil into the good.

Written in response to my comment "I prefer an open enemy to religious hypocrites who talk about how they "love" gay people and then do everything they can to harm us," and aptly so, as it's an excellent example of just the kind of hypocrisy I was talking about.

Christians who demonize gay people and approve of discrimination against gay people don't love gay people. That's not what love is like. When I say they're hypocrites, I'm speaking in general terms, of course. I'd guess that maybe 25% of them have such deep psychological problems that they really think they are being loving, like Andrea Yates when she decided to save her children by drowning them in the bathtub. But I think the vast majority know full well that their thoughts and behavior aren't loving, or would know it if they gave it a moment's though, and that's why I call them hypocrites.

 

[Smoke]

Interesting interview! There is little doubt in my mind that the theollogy appears to be somewhat aberrational but not really far from the truth. I don't find what these girls had to say to be hateful.

Thank you for making another point about WBC. What they say about gay people is really not at all far off from what the Roman Catholic Church and most Evangelicals and Mormons say about gay people. Their view is a mainstream Christian view. It's only their manner of expressing it that most Christians object to, and even that didn't really become an issue with most Christians until they started picketing soldiers' funerals. WBC is emblematic of the moral failure of Christianity in general.

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

Something I like about them is that they're honest.

It bugs me when people say love the sinner hate the sin.

 

[Misty]

It bugs me when people say love the sinner hate the sin.

Same here, especially when it is used in the context of gays whose only 'crime' is to love someone of the same sex, what is so bad about that? Only an evil deity and sick followers could believe homosexuality is a so called 'sin'.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Something I like about them is that they're honest. I prefer an open enemy to religious hypocrites who talk about how they "love" gay people and then do everything they can to harm us.

:yes:

 

[Rainbow Mage]

It bugs me when people say love the sinner hate the sin.

I agree

 

[Vasilisa Jade]

Yeah, there was a bike group that would follow them around and block them out which was really kind of neat.

Bikers are freakin awesome. I love me some bikers. It don't matter where you work or what you're doing, bikers are always freakin cool as hell.

 

[Rakhel]

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YouTube - Westboro Baptist vs. Angry Nevadan Bikers pt2

And you can't forget Michael Moore's beautiful documentary on the Westboro church
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YouTube - Michael Moore vs Westboro Baptist Church