Westboro Baptist Church

[Inv3rted]

I knew these guys were grade-A starfishs, but I found an interesting expose of their lifestyle by some journalist.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7735501683185935638#

They're worse than I expected.

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[Ethan]

[SeventhSandwich]

If I didn't have a strong belief in god I would drop this stuff.


I will laugh hilariously if one of the church members gets hit by a truck, because then I will send them a piece of mail saying:

"I guess god hates you guys too."

[nas]

Yea they protested at my school last weekend - basically just hate speech against gays etc

We countered with an Anti-Anti-Gay rally

[SeventhSandwich]

Yea they protested at my school last weekend - basically just hate speech against gays etc

We countered with an Anti-Anti-Gay rally

Can I come to your house. I want to throw eggs at their parents faces.

[Inv3rted]

They're really pushing the filmmaker, lol. He's on the verge of raging all the time.

[dkamm65]

Holy what the forget those people are nuts.

[SeventhSandwich]

They're really pushing the filmmaker, lol. He's on the verge of raging all the time.

They should take the children away.

[nas]

Can I come to your house. I want to throw eggs at their parents faces.

Of course.

Our school bared non-students from participating - they didnt want any fights to break out - hell they threatened with suspension/expulsion if we so much as threatened to hurt them

[*Magick* Mage]

Isn't religion fun?  

Seriously, though, these people have been stirring up issues for a while now and it's quite sad. They are so wrapped up in finding the "hidden messages" and "secret meanings" to every little thing in the Bible to the most fundamentalist extreme they can think of. The thing is, however, they fail to recgonize the most important words that are spoken for any section of Christianity - "Love thy Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
If only this, such two commandments are what Christianity should be based upon, not hatred or greed or pride. People; ministries; governments; organizations like this is what truely bothers me and what shakes my belief in 'religion' . I happen to believe more and more each day that the old saying
"Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim."
is quite right....

<3 you all.

[SeventhSandwich]

forget religion,

Follow good morals and believe in god.
Occasional private worship.


^^^My Lifestyle.

I would go to church but it costs money and I like to sleep in.

[rkynick]

"Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim."

Wouldn't that imply that faith in god will free you from a raging river?

This seems like a misquote or a poor example.

[*Magick* Mage]

Wouldn't that imply that faith in god will free you from a raging river?

Not necessarily, it just means you'll be able to swim in the river, but it also depends on your perspective of what the river is a metaphor of, let alone what the quote means to you personally. :P

[rkynick]

Not necessarily, it just means you'll be able to swim in the river, but it also depends on your perspective of what the river is a metaphor of, let alone what the quote means to you personally. :P

That quote is very pro-religion. If faith lets you swim in the river, what is it faith in? Given the subject, an assumption of faith in religion is probably not far off.

[InvalidUniverse]

Those starfishs are coming to Philly on April 8th, protesting some play at Temple University, a lot of my friends go there, I would go but my parents would rip my head off.