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LonDom61 -> RE: Fred Phelps church BANkRUPT (10/31/2007 8:02:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: RazorJAK
Phelps is one of the people that are quite literally alive ONLY because killing him would make him a martyr to that backwoods inbred "church" of his.
Seriously, when he was in Traverse City a few years ago, the ONLY thing that kept me from attacking that fuck and smashing my fists into his skull until it was hard to distinguish where the ground ended and his grey matter began was because of that. I was able to remind myself he'd be martyred.
Good thing you didn't...cuz another way they make a ton of money is by suing anyone who assaults them. If they get money for getting hit, imagine how much they'd get for losing their Big Guy. THAT's when the numbers would come out. "With his leadership, we make THIS much money. So our expected revenue for the rest of his life would've been..."
It's no accident that he and several of his kids are lawyers.
...I want it to appear that the Creator herself reached down and fucking erased him from the universe. I want it to appear that the Universe could no longer tolerate his presence anymore.
And I want it to happen in full view of a majority of his flock.
He offends us...and gets media coverage...because of this funeral protest policy. But, that aside, he is at least true to every word of the book that all Christians are supposed to follow.
It was written 2,000-4,000 years ago (New Testament, Old Testament). Much of it made sense for those people in those times. It advocates death for things that are commonly accepted now. It advocates genocide, slavery and much that is now reviled.
There was pretty much one penalty for every infraction: stoning. Abominations were infractions. Have you ever eaten shrimp or lobster? Sorry, but that's abomination.
But it's still the "Holy Book" of hundreds of millions of people. They reinterpret it, or ignore inconvenient chunks. It's become The Big Book of Multiple Choice. Choose the morality that makes sense for you, then look in the Bible for the parts that back it up (or that you can fudge to do so). Ignore the rest. Let your minister/pastor/priest tell you the parts to look at, what they mean and what they say you should do.
Yes, he's a vicious, evil, nasty man. Yes, he deserves to die for the venom he spews.
But he's a "true Christian". And if there is a god, She loves him to bits. Cuz HE's practising Her words. All of 'em. Not necessarily in the funeral protests (that's showboating for attention and gain), but in the rest of his doctrine.
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