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Westboro Baptist Church Gets In the Music Game
The people who picketed the funerals of dead soldiers and brought you such charming websites as "God Hates Fags" are getting into the music business with their single, "Whorish Face." The parody of the Lady Gaga hit "Poker Face" was written by Westboro Pastor Fred Phelps' granddaughter Megan Phelps-Roper. With all the trouble these people have caused already do they really want to face the fury of Weird Al?
Why do we give these people the time of day?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Because we need someone to look crazier than Scientology & PETA?
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
They've made parodies before. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_U4xrutRgs entitied "God Hates the World" which is a parody of a Michael Jackson song. One thing that is fascinating about this sort of thing is how most cults are completely removed from the surrounding culture. In the case of Westboro Baptist they are surprisingly knowledgeable about the general popular culture.
No. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Maybe they really want Romans 12:2 "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will."
I suppose they get their theology from 1 John 2... but God's asking us not to love the world. That's not the same as him not loving the world. After all, he created it. You'd think they'd see themselves in verses 18 and 19.
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For starters, being Christian would suggest following the basic teachings coming from Jesus of Nazareth. Eschewing material wealth is among the main ones. That eliminates 99% of supposed adherents.
More generally, building you church inside you as a spiritual concept and not as a wealthy organisation also seems to be one. Heck, and I can't exactly see how supporting any wars fits, too...
One that hath name thou can not otter
Just look around you (and a little further than your comfy backyard), see what kind of world he supposedly created.
One that hath name thou can not otter
I'm the last person to stick up for them, but they're just doing what they think is right. Of course I think they should be added on to the list of terrorists. I don't care about their beliefs and I don't agree with their morals and what they do. They teach their children to hate the homosexual which for all we know may be just as natural as skin colour. Extremists in all forms are dangerous. It's where we draw those lines are important. All peoples have the right to believe what ever they want. It's not their right to shove it down my throat and expect me to like it. From my studies Christianity (originally) taught that you have to learn to seperate yourself from the rest of the world to attain "salvation" reading St. Augustine and all that (long before the bible was cannonised). From what I've read. The teachings of Jesus is fine and is a good ethical code, but the entire bible needs to be taken with a massive grain of salt for it to be palpable to me. Theses nut cases have pretty much thrown 90% of Jesus's teachings out. Calling them real Christians is like calling Al-Queda real Muslims. It's offensive to those who actually use their faith in a positive well mannered way. Of course, I'm a mixed bag of beliefs, I think I'm best summed as a Spiritual Humanist, but maybe that because I get what Caul Sagan was saying.
I do hope that the Westboro people realize that they are putting themselves in a dangerous position by their protests. One of these years they may get on the bad side of people who have guns and know how to use them.
Note the lack of the word “only”. That list is not comprehensive.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
For the record, you will find that God hates homosexuality but loves the people
According to whom? Certainly not according to the Bible. According to Proverbs 6:16-19, there are six things God hates, and homosexuality is not one of them:
There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
That's a really good list.
I tend to think that Leviticus shouldn't be included in Christian canon as it's largely concerned with the Jewish concept of ritual purity which is discarded in Christianity. I went to a good church as a child (although I didn't really believe back then) where the focus was on love and forgiveness and I don't think anyone ever read from Leviticus. In general, I think the idea of pinning down religion to a matter of ritual and binary compliance with a set of procedures is a bad idea and I see Jesus's teachings as railing against that view within the community of his time.
It's nice to see people around here talking about this civilly.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Really? You wouldn't know it seeing how many gays are in positions of leadership in xian churches.
He must also love gossips and rumour-mongers, seeing as most fundie churches are SO busy telling everyone else how they should live or they're going to hell.
What next? Condemning transsexuals as "just men in dresses"? Or that divorced people can never remarry? Or that I'll go to hell for saying that i am absolutely convinced there is no possibility of god existing in this universe, and people who claim otherwise should put up or shit up?
And no, your book (which should be classified as hate literature) doesn't count as "proof", any more than Star Wars would prove the existence of "the force."
Wow, you UTTERLY fail. You can’t even properly do a word search to find references to the phrase “God hates” or similar?
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Such a charming display of simple faith ... her daddy is her preacher, you know, and I'm sure that she spends all her days desperately trying to make da-da happy. But daddy is stern like the patriarchs of old, and somehow she's never quite good enough. So it's over the knee and down with the panties .... whap! whap! whap! ... "You're not good enough for daddy-god!!" ... spank! spank! spank! ... "You'll have to do better if you want to make daddy-god happy!" whap! whap! ... "now get down on your knees girl, mouth opened in PRAYER for the holy communilinugus!! And prepare to recieve the blessing of the LORD, even though he hates you!"
"You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something" (Spencer Tracey, 'Inherit the Wind')
For the record, you will find that God hates homosexuality but loves the people
According to whom? Certainly not according to the Bible. According to Proverbs 6:16-19, there are six things God hates, and homosexuality is not one of them:
There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
That's a really good list.
I tend to think that Leviticus shouldn't be included in Christian canon as it's largely concerned with the Jewish concept of ritual purity which is discarded in Christianity. I went to a good church as a child (although I didn't really believe back then) where the focus was on love and forgiveness and I don't think anyone ever read from Leviticus. In general, I think the idea of pinning down religion to a matter of ritual and binary compliance with a set of procedures is a bad idea and I see Jesus's teachings as railing against that view within the community of his time.
It's nice to see people around here talking about this civilly.
The Christians pick and choose which parts they think are canon depending on their mood. For instance they throw out the whole, kill anybody eating shellfish, but they want to keep the Ten Commandments.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.