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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 9:58 am
(March 1, 2015 at 9:07 am)Stimbo Wrote: Another would be getting a smack in the mouth for disrupting a private family funeral. That they whine and crawl behind their free speech rights while denying them to others is the most disgusting thing about the Phelps larvae. Clearly they don't hate everything about their country.
I agree that their actions are inexcusable, even if legal and that they are - for the most part - despicable human beings. I don't even think they really hate anything at this point - they're just media whores and trolls.
Still - on the global scale of religious nuts, they're a mild annoyance, at least from my point of view.
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:01 am
(March 1, 2015 at 9:58 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Still - on the global scale of religious nuts, they're a mild annoyance, at least from my point of view.
Because they can't act on their feelings without breaking the laws. Do you really think if gays were fair game in this society they wouldn't go hunting?
No, these people need to be watched closely because some of them might be crazy enough to no longer care about legal implications.
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:03 am
And interestingly, they consider themselves to be truer xtians than people like our professor, with his curious aversion to research.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:03 am
(March 1, 2015 at 9:56 am)professor Wrote: The only thing I know about this baptist group is what you guys show.
Seems to me it is a cult.
They (and especially the leadership) are in deep do do.
Rebellion is as witchcraft and that is what has a hold of these people.
They will be dumped into the Tribulation dead ahead, being without excuse-
fully knowing what is required, yet ignoring what God said.
You guys have more excuse than them (having a make-believe god in your mind that you rebel against).
God's great lament has always been that His people act worse than the heathen around them.
I pray for these clowns.
God does not want them (including you) to have to go thru what is coming.
Yeah that sucks for him.
If ONLY there was a way for him to refrain from horribly torturing us for all eternity other than for us to telepathically give assent to the proposition that a 2000 year old dead rabbi was the son of God.
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:04 am
(March 1, 2015 at 9:58 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: I agree that their actions are inexcusable, even if legal and that they are - for the most part - despicable human beings. I don't even think they really hate anything at this point - they're just media whores and trolls.
Still - on the global scale of religious nuts, they're a mild annoyance, at least from my point of view. Agreed!
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:10 am
Something else just occurred to me while reading Jacob's companion piece to this. Maybe it's a linguistic thing, but wouldn't it be a layer of unintentional bad taste to picket Leonard Nimoy's funeral with "God hates fags" signs?
Sorry - blame my pickled brain.
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:18 am
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The WBC are hyper Calvinists. I have noticed that a lot of the more extreme Christian fundamentalist are all Calvinists. Of course, not all Calvinists are crazy extremists.
A few years back, I watched a British documentary on WBC and one of Phelp's granddaughters said that her family would not be upset if she got hit by a car because it would mean that she wasn't one of the elect. That is a very sad way to be brought up.
They send their children to public school which surprises me but I think that the experience must make the children feel even more isolated and hated. If I remember correctly the group interpreted being hated to mean that they are doing the right thing. The bible does provide a cover for being hated.
Quote:John 1518"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 20"Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also
If I understand their thinking, as Calvinists, they don't really believe that they have any influence on whether someone is saved. The rest of the world is doomed anyway and most of humanity will be tortured for an eternity. However, they were commanded to preach to the world so none of us could say that we weren't warned. On line, I have met some Calvinists with similar thinking, they just don't bring attention to their more obnoxious beliefs but if you push them, they still express similar thoughts.
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:57 am
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(March 1, 2015 at 10:01 am)abaris Wrote: No, these people need to be watched closely because some of them might be crazy enough to no longer care about legal implications.
Maybe, but it seems unlikely. People who are willing to commit crimes - even the psychotic ones - usually know better than to shout about it in the streets beforehand. Westboro Baptists are wackos, but they're famous wackos. They know that if there's ever even a shred of suspicion on them, for a crime that would appear to suit their "profile" - they'd be risking lynching, not to mention fierce criminal prosecution.
I'd worry much more about those religious extremists, who sit quietly and polish their guns...
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 10:58 am
I see having your funeral picketed by the Westboro Baptists as a sign of a life well lived.
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RE: Westboro Baptist Church Plans To Picket Leonard Nimoy's Funeral
March 1, 2015 at 11:14 am
Just lay a minefield around where the funeral is being held. Put up signs so that the WBC guys know; they don't have to endanger themselves, but we'll see just how devoted they are to their particular god then.
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