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Posted by ahar (Member # 5810) on :
 
Hi guys

There was a programme on the BBC last night about a small church in Topeka Kansas (Westboro Baptist Church) that pickets funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. Never seen this before but the programme implied that they are well known in the US.

Have you guys heard of them before? Any idea if they have much of a following in the US?
 
Posted by HE LIVES (Member # 4931) on :
 
I have heard of the group from news stories and such, but really don't know much about them.

I have seen them on the news holding signs and shouting things at the parents of soldiers at funerals and different rallies.

That's about it.
 
Posted by Caretaker (Member # 36) on :
 
Fred Phelps is an apostle of hate and his family compound home to the cult of the Westboro Baptist Church.

http://cjonline.com/webindepth/phelps/

A Son's Perspective on Fred Phelps

What is he like? Well, it's been 19 years since I left home, but his behavior still appears to be the same. He considers his environment to be against him without admitting, acknowledging or taking responsibility for how he contributes to that. He likes to show himself as being moral, pro-family, pro-Bible, but his actions just don't add up to that. I believe in God and the Bible, and my father's behavior doesn't fit the description of behavior that would show in the life of one who loves God; behavior characteristics such as Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control. Instead, my father's behavior characterizes, I believe, Hate, Outbursts of Wrath, Contention, Jealousy, Vengefulness, Misery, Harshness, and Selfish ambition. He mis-states the truth about his own behavior, about others, about the Bible, with apparent ease and regularity. He behaves with a viciousness the likes of which I have never seen. He accepts no genuine accountability in his life and is subject to no one. His lifestyle betrays the sacred trust of what a pastor, husband, father and grandfather should be. I suppose if a comparison were made between the life of Jesus Christ and my father, there would not be much to compare.

I also realize that my father is a very unstable person who is determined to hurt people. And because he is so bound to be hateful and hurtful, and because he's so untrustworthy, I believe it's a good idea to respond to him with caution much like the caution used when dealing with a rattlesnake or a mad dog. You see, the causes that he crusades for, including the Bible, are not the issue here. He simply wants to hate and to have a forum for his hate. If the causes he focuses on were the issue, that is, if they really meant something to him in his heart and he meant for the things he does to be for the good, his behavior would not be what it is. He would not betray his message with his behavior. But, when he needs to, to vent his hate, he readily goes outside the bounds of any previously stated 'value' or 'cause' he may have supported. He experiences no moral dilemma when it comes to doing what he wants to do. If it weren't the homosexuals, it would be something else.

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We live 50 miles from Topeka, and I have watched the antics of this apostle of hate for decades. He is no more Christian than the KKK.
 
Posted by ahar (Member # 5810) on :
 
Interesting, thanks Drew
 




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