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Why are there so many militant Christians out there?

Do Baptists really think they are going to reach people with such things?

Granted this Baptist churches rhetoric is a bit extreme...but, isn't Fred Phelps saying what many of you fundamentalists think? He is just using direct inflammatory words to say it.

-Do you not realize how many people you turn away with such rhetoric?

Your thoughts?

2007-06-07 04:49:41 · 16 answers · asked by G.C. 5 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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The sad thing is, when you read about Jesus in the gospel, the group he was most pissed off with was not the 'sinners' (and I don't even believe it is a sin to be a homosexual). It was the religious hypocrites. 'They travel over land and sea to win a single convert to make them twice the sons of Hell as they are'... (a paraphrase from somewhere in the gospels).

The worst place in Hell is reserved for these people.

2007-06-07 05:04:44 · answer #1 · answered by babeedoll_05 2 · 1 0

They feel threatened. The only reason followers of a religion turn militant like this is insecurity. Obviously Westboro has some deep seated issues about homosexuality.

You're right... Phelps is doing what most fundamentalists only wish they had the nerve to do.

They don't care who they turn away... they're too busy being Right.

It's disgusting. We should designate one state (maybe Texas? It's gotta be a big state), fence that sucker off and send anyone who acts like this to live there. They can have cable, phones, internet... all connected with all the other militants from various religions. Let em beat the hell out of each other with their religious writings and maybe the rest of us can get on with things in reality.

2007-06-07 05:21:57 · answer #2 · answered by River 5 · 0 0

The group is known as the Westboro Baptists. They are a group based on a family who sees things differently then what the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity teach. They are a disgusting group of individuals who should be banned from running a religion.By the way it's they aren't affiliated with Baptists. They claim to be Baptists.


Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a controversial U.S. church headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the websites GodHatesFags.com,[1] GodHatesAmerica.com and others expressing condemnation of homosexuals, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews, as well as populations it considers to support the forementioned groups, including Swedes, African Americans, Canadians and Americans.

The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League,[2] and classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[3][4] The group has achieved national notoriety in recent years due to its picketing of funeral processions for soldiers killed in combat, which functions as an extension of the Phelps' anti-United States beliefs.

While its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is an independent church not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles. Its first public service was held on the afternoon of Sunday, 27th November 1955.[5]

The church bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary website, "God hates fags", and expresses the opinion, based on its Biblical eisegesis, that nearly every tragedy in the world is linked to homosexuality – specifically society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. The group maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of "sinners"[6] and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

2007-06-07 04:55:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

A little leaven leaventh the whole lump......

This is not representative of fundamentalist Christianity....It is one radical group that has gone beyond speaking against sin and defending the gospel to hating anyone who does not respond...from the little bit that I have observed...

Please understand that this is not the standard,for Christian behavior or Christ's expression of Love through his many membered body.....

2007-06-07 04:59:04 · answer #4 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0 0

I am a Christian. That site would be the equivalent of a Extremist Islamic Jihad site and is not the view of a majority of Christians.
I find it a mockery and a distortion of scripture. Hate is the opposite of love, LOVE is the greatest gift we can have as Christians. To promote hate or preach hate is in fact anti-Christ.
Shame.... and shameful.

2007-06-07 04:58:04 · answer #5 · answered by ™Tootsie 5 · 0 0

No its not what many people think. God does hate what they are doing, but it isn't helping anyone to act like him. I think hes the one that protests funerals too, which is even worse. Hes just some preacher that puts himself before God, and he is working on making a name for himself. Not to mention probably a lot of money

2007-06-07 04:55:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Looks good the only thing I might add is the ability to compare 2 or 3 side by side

2016-05-19 00:18:25 · answer #7 · answered by kimberley 3 · 0 0

NO! I've seen it and I never ever want to go back. That level of festering hatred is just not healthy for a person.

2007-06-07 05:00:20 · answer #8 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1 0

If in the bible it said that God would want at least 10.000 people thrown off windows, I can assure you that there would be 10.000 throwing themselves out the windows.
The Bible is this really dangerous "Simon says" game.

2007-06-07 04:54:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

And I thought Jesus was about love of all men and women.

2007-06-07 04:54:32 · answer #10 · answered by sonofmary 4 · 1 0

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