I am NOT asking Christians to DEFEND this...
I just want to know what Christians think causes this kind of thinking and how they plan to teach their children to avoid it for the safety of everyone in the world.
BEWARE: This link is not something you should want your kids to see... only watch it if you have a strong stomach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40xeRKdI4fY
2007-07-21 16:27:54 · 27 answers · asked by rabble rouser 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And why is it that Fox News will invite these people on their show as guests but will not uncover who is funding their church?
Where is journalism when it could really help?
2007-07-21 16:49:51 · update #1
I think the Families of the VT victims should bring a lawsuit against God and name Fred Phelps for what he names himself in the suit. Agent and Spokesmen. Then put a lien against the assets of Phelps' church.
Either Phelps absorbs the judgement against the God he claims is the "Supreme Terrorist," or he backs off and admits that he has no right to speak for God.
Either way, it'll put the fear of.....well, God into the Fundies as a whole. Phelps is not the first Fundie to claim that a random massacre or a Natural Disaster was a divine terrorist act.
It's time to use the Courts to make them put up or shut up. Not a 1st Ammendment case. Criminal Acts can always be prosecuted in the Criminal or Civil Courts.
"The same God who sees the sparrow fall, hears the hate that people spew in his name."
Well, that's the whole point Miss Lovegod, Phelps don't like "Fruits" and prooftexts to justify it.
2007-07-21 17:12:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I have been a Christian most of my entire life and the only thing I can say about this "gentlemen" in this video is that he needs some major prayer because he is totally off his rocker... God didn't send the horrible tragedies that happened to the people of Virginia tech as a punishment. HE didn't do that at all.. He is however the creator of the man/child that did all those killings, but just as Adam was given free will, in the Garden of Eden, so wasn't this assassin... He chose to do what he did and no one can ever know why. God certainly wasn't the one that pulled that trigger repeatedly. He was. He will have to suffer the punishment, whatever that may be, for what he has done.. One of the major 10 commandments is Thou shalt not kill.. He certainly didn't obey that one. I'm sorry to even say that the poor undereducated and completely blind man in that video calls himself a Christian because he himself needs to look in a mirror, stop misquoting scripture and maybe realize what an actual dingbat her really is because, God would never encourage hatred.. especially the drudge he is putting forward...
2007-07-21 16:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by Jason M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a cult. This guy has been in the news repeatedly. This isn't fooling anyone. I think we all know you can't judge a group by a few.
Don't worry, children being raised in Christian homes are not going to be this way. We teach them what Jesus taught, love and forgiveness. We do have standards and beliefs which non-Christians don't like but that's just the way it is. Tolerance is not accepting sin but it's also not spewing hate the way this guy has been doing it. I'm sure you can find other examples from different groups of people that so the same.
2007-07-21 16:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I didn't even watch the whole thing; that idiot's not worth my time.
I teach my children not to hate. People are people. Everyone's sinned. None more than the "good folks" of Westboro's infamous congregation. I won't dignify it by referring to it as Baptist, much less calling it a church. I'm glad you're not asking Christians to defend such garbage; it's indefensible. And to Saunders: I'm not "ashamed of it;" that wold imply I was somehow a party to it, and I'm NOT. It's disgusting and I'm no more a party to that than you are. Then again, I guess we should ALL be ashamed of it, simply because the guy's the same species as us (although I'd be willing to debate that.) I went to a soldier's memorial, and had those people been there... Ooh, I almost wish they had been; it would not have been a warm welcome.
At the same time, it seems ridiculous to waste time getting wound up over a psychotic loon with a persecution complex. It should go without saying that he doesn't speak for Christians, let alone Christ. And let's leave it at that.
2007-07-21 16:39:37 · answer #4 · answered by hoff_mom 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let me first say that i do not believe in God,
however i do come from a family that is devout in
its christian beliefs,
when i was younger i often asked questions like these and i was always taught that God had a special plan for every person and when someone died, he was meant to.
but sometimes the devil intervenes with God's plan and because of the fact that God gave every person freedom of choice he has the free-will to do what he pleases and if that means following or giving into the tricks of the devil then that is his decision and he will be punished for it.
2007-07-21 16:35:07 · answer #5 · answered by Ashleyfoll 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is unfortunate that there are people out there who have no love of the Father in them.
The Bible has a comment on this man.
1 John 2:9-11
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.
Pray that this man will see the light.
2007-07-21 17:00:21 · answer #6 · answered by Theophilus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the bible teaches that many falls teachers and prophets would come. we are to test teachers and prophets to see if they have the Holy Spirit in them.which mr. Phelps does not.
the only why to stop childern influenced by having a relationship with Jesus. and for Mr. Phelps church it is a church that you can not join. and they get their money by going into small towns and starting their rallies, after they are shut down they sue city. they use the court systems to make money , this from watching a Fox report on them. the daughters are very sharp lawyers.
2007-07-21 17:07:46 · answer #7 · answered by rap1361 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My popular Christian answer is, God spoke dinosaurs into existence because of the fact Noah mandatory ballast interior the ark. particularly of filling the bilge with stones as became into the custom for early ships, Noah merely caught a pair of brontosauruses in guidance. After the flood Noah escorted the greater unique species back to the polar areas and buried the bones of the dinosaurs he snacked on alongside the way. i've got heard which you will map Noah's very footsteps in case you spotlight admired archaeological digs on a worldwide map.
2016-10-19 06:35:43 · answer #8 · answered by branaugh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is things like this that make me thank God that I am not a Christian. At first I thought it had to be some kind of really sick joke, and then I remembered that there really are still people who think this way! It was this kind of sick intolerance and closed mindedness that caused the witch trials of Salem, Mass. This kind of thinking is shameful, and totally UNGodly! *sm*
2007-07-21 16:54:59 · answer #9 · answered by LadyZania 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unreal.
I can certainly see why people who do not know the truth about Christianity and all they see is something like this---I don't blame them for being against Christians(if this is all they see).
I've never heard anything like that from a church of any religion before.
Unreal
2007-07-21 16:45:48 · answer #10 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋