Fundamentalism Hits New Low

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In the stagnant pond called Westboro, Kansas, one of the professional Big Fish is the Rev. Fred Phelps, whose vital contribution to the Christian life of the world is the targeting of homosexuals. His latest publicity stunt to entertain and impress his deluded acolytes with his daring, is to erect a plaque in Mathew Shepherd's home town, in Wyoming, containing the inscription starting: 'Mathew Shepard entered Hell...'.

This same beacon of Christian love and forgiveness has a website something like ';God Hates Fags', and in 1998 led a picket of Barry Goldwater's funeral because Big Baz filed to cast his homosexual grandson into the street with sufficient alacrity (or indeed at all).

Goldwater was Public Enemy No 1 for anti-Vietnam War protestors in the 1960s. But none of them picketed his funeral. Can Bible-bashing US-style plumb any new depths after this?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Saturday, 18 October 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Step 1: notice thread mentioning "Fundamentalism hit[ting] new low"
Step 2: muse to self: "What did Fred Phelps do this time?"
Step 3: open thread
Step 4: find out it was indeed Fred Phelps
Step 5: feel ill

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 18 October 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:Mounfy5Yq94C:www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/images/64b.jpg http://www.smilesagainsthate.com/Images/burundi_small.jpg http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wtc-hit.jpg http://www.smilesagainsthate.com/Images/mass_grave_small.jpg http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:dDu75CAUrDEC:etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/decades/191505.jpg

― x:x, Saturday, 18 October 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that's the first WTC attack pic I've ever seen in black and white. That makes it even more disturbing.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 18 October 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Rev Phelps is a witch. I say we burn him.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 18 October 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

On the other hand, http://www.godhatesfigs.com is totally brilliant.

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 18 October 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

figs...I hate them fuckin fruits. Their all FRUITS, I tell ya. Fuckin figs. I wanna go out and go fig-bashing.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 19 October 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

This same beacon of Christian love and forgiveness.

Actually, the not-Reverend Fred Phelps believes that the notion of a loving God is a wrong one and explains on his FAQs. I'd find a link, but I'm not going to be going to his website at work thanks. He's vile, a distilled concentration of everything that's wrong with organized hatred.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 October 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Curse him for ruining organized hatred for the rest of us!

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 19 October 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

;)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 October 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That's fine Eric. I deliberately didn't give his URL before because I didn't want to give him a free plug.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 19 October 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

A free butt plug?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 19 October 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

http://8.media.tumblr.com/Z2vFmZ8mfnhr86gw5BCjK28Po1_500.jpg

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 10:39 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry,

http://8.media.tumblr.com/Z2vFmZ8mfnhr86gw5BCjK28Po1_500.jpg

Wrong target group?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 10:40 (sixteen years ago)

fundagarmentalism.

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 11:24 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― sicrut admirer (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 13:51 (sixteen years ago)

So that's the secret Mormon underwear.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:13 (sixteen years ago)

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