If You’re Still Wondering “Why?”

It’s because of America’s sins against the Westboro Baptist Church

A fringe church that has garnered attention and scorn for protesting funerals of troops killed in Iraq is planning to picket services for the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church have disrupted funerals across the country over the past few years with profane signs saying that deaths in Iraq are retribution triggered by America’s tolerance of homosexuals.

A church news release explains: “God is punishing America for her sodomite sins. The 33 massacred at Virginia Tech died for America’s sins against WBC (Westboro Baptist Church). Just as U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq each day for America’s sins against WBC.”

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6 Responses to “If You’re Still Wondering “Why?””

  1. Dodos on April 27th, 2007 at 9:57 am

    The Westboro Baptist Church is a bunch of raving lunatics. One of the members did an interview with Sean Hannity once and she actually made Hannity seem sympathetic and likeable. Not an easy task.

  2. Arwen on April 27th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    Oh, god. That Westboro freak needs to get some psychiatric help.

  3. James Bow on April 30th, 2007 at 11:35 am

    Hmm… I’ve been following these wackos for a little while, now, and this news release represents an interesting and possibly disturbing change in their rhetoric. Previously, the War in Iraq, Katrina, the hurricanes of Florida, and even high crime rates in Los Angeles, were the result of America’s tolerance of homosexuality as a sin against *God*. Now it’s a sin against the Westboro Baptist Church.

    Fred Phelps, the supercrazy pastor in charge of this group, has been steadily increasing in his insanity. He cut himself off from the Southern Baptist Convention, and now he’s cutting himself off from God. It may well be just a few more months before he declares himself to *be* God, and then we might need a few swat teams to control these lunatics.

  4. Candace on May 2nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm

    Mental note: Do not drink anything offered by Mr. Phelps, particularly Kool-Ade.

  5. Bow. James Bow. on May 4th, 2007 at 7:02 am

    The Next Waco or Jonestown?

    I and others on the blogosphere have been following wacko pastor Fred Phelps as he sounds off against America as the new Sodom. This increasingly deranged individual and his followers have gained national attention and scorn in glorifying in the…

  6. Melanie Stephan on May 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Hi,
    I don’t know if this is a religious site or not. I was searching the net to find out who is on the left side of God. Jesus is on the right. After reading a few sites now I think that the left side is the weaker side. Since I am a woman I could be on the left side of God. That makes sense to me. Then another subject about the half empty glass thing. That you wrote above. When I was born the moon was half empty. Then I know someone who says that his glass is full of toxic poison. Anyway you want to look at it, it is all fun. Oh then there is Judgment Day. I wonder if the moon will be Full or Empty. Or covered in Shack Cloth? Maybe it all depends on the day and time your called up. Since I haven’t been taking from the cup it should be full for me I hope when I get there. For those that have been taking from the cup well you know. Nothing for you.
    Anyway the reason I am writing is this, God told me the meaning of First Is last and Last is First. It means that Birth is Last. Birth I think is after Judgement Day. I think he also told me that I am on his Left Side. Yours Truly, Melanie Stephan

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