"God Hates Fags..."
Saw a documentary on TV One on Monday night on the Westboro Baptist Church who have earned such publicity towards themselves for some very unconventional and in my opinion Un-Christian protests involving signs carried by most family members with the phrase "God Hates Fags"
Their view is that God hates America and all who don't follow their narrow perspective on the interpretation and application of Scripture, especially the homosexual community and the armed forces. Their hatred goes even as far as traveling interstate in order to picket a Funeral of a U.S. Soldier.
They Believe God has called them to fulfill this mission of bringing this message of judgementto all these different areas of society, that God Hates them and that they need to repent, in some way, to their way of believing.
My Question is this: If God hates these different sectors of society so much (Churches, Gays, Military etc), why has he gone to all this trouble of sending the members of the Westboro Baptist Church to warn them of their 'evil ways'?
posted by Jason @ 12:50 am
3 Comments:
I watched the same documentry jas, and was struck as you were ny how un-Christian the whole thing was. I think what offended me the most was the pastor's (i forget his name) message to Billy Graham and the matter-of-fact tone in his voice, also, it was his ivory tower mentality, i thought "who does this guy think he is?"
The saddest thing is that the children are being indoctrinated by this and its an only an attitude that comes from a total lack of accountability and someone to say "no, thats wrong."
If Bible College taught me anything, its the difference between exegesis and eisogesis. How do people read such extremes into the bible??
it was interesting to see that four of his children have left the church and that he wouldn't acknowledge their existence!
I should imagine the young woman the reporter was interviewing won't last much longer, she was forcing a smile too often when he was confronting her on some pretty hard issues.
The "I know I'm right regardless of the facts" act was wearing a little thin from what I can see.
From what I've experienced, It usually does wear thin after a while.
I'm astounded by the "matter-of-fact" way they did everything. i understand that there have to be some things that as a Christian you cant possibly move on but when you are a minority like they are with their fundamental beliefs, youd think that they would be struck by their own arrogance.
Who knows.
Warwick
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