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Westboro Baptist Church Gets In the Music Game

Posted by samzenpus on from the Jesus-can-read-my-poker-face dept.

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?

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  1. God hates the world? by operagost · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:God hates the world? by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Unfortunately, there is enough ambiguous content in the bible that you can get almost any interpretation you want out of it, if you go into it with already strongly held beliefs and an intent to do so.

      Personally, I believe God Loves Homosexuals (that's we he made so many of them!) and that Jesus, who was known for hanging out with and comforting the outcasts of society, would have had no problem with embracing someone whose sexual preferences were in the minority. Although the bible contains several proscriptions on homosexual behavior, the usual example cited (Sodom & Gomorrah) is a bad one, since these cities were destroyed for allowing the practice of homosexual rape, not mere homosexuality.

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  2. Re:Gotta love these fake Christians by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For the record, you will find that God hates homosexuality but loves the people

    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."