<p>okay so i found this link posted by someone else on CC but i just thought it to be really EYE OPENING as to how insane people are.... and how far they are willing to drag religion into justifying their own disgusting, unnecessary prejudices....check it out!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G470rfJQCI%5B/url%5D">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G470rfJQCI</a></p>
<p>she is psycho.....</p>
<p>Holy crap!</p>
<p>I don't think religion has anything to do with it. I think she's just plain ignorant and disrespectful. She should move out of the country and see what the real "real" world is like.</p>
<p>If you've got some time on your hands, read this wiki about her dad. He's quite possibly the most insane person ever:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps</a></p>
<p>ok, i'm an agnostic, but i'm pretty flabbergasted.</p>
<p>God is supposed to be (to quote her words) "a raging mad God"</p>
<p>I'm no advocate of the Bible or anything(actually, I have never read the whole book), but I always thought the message through Jesus was love and forgiveness, etc. (correct me if i'm wrong)</p>
<p>anyway, i just can't believe that she is justifying her ideas through religion and manipulating the whole concept of the higher power so that the people in her church, and herself are the only good people who deserve to live.</p>
<p>People who died in the Holocaust and September 11 deserve to die?
geez. what the...:(</p>
<p>It's crazy *****es like this that give us normal Christians a bad name.</p>
<p>Phelps came to my town last summer to protest our mayor (who is openly gay) during our annual Mayor's Cup. His group hung out around our churches, but there was this whole movement going around called 'Stop Hate', and Phelps' people got out of here pretty fast.</p>
<p>This is religion at its finest, you know?</p>
<p>No... this is a tiny minority of a fundamentalist religious group who poisons the reputation of Christianity as a whole.</p>
<p>Haha no you're mistaken. This is true religion. Intolerance, hatred, and bigotry. You really think that Islam is a religion of peace, and all the terrorists are a 'small minority' polluting it?</p>
<p>Yes, I do believe that this is happening with Islam. I think that it was the initial goal of religion to give people some instruction as to how to live their live, how to treat each other, and how to make the right choices. Sure, I think that some of the worst wars of mankind have been started out of religious reasons, or what they thought were religious reasons (say, the Crusades). I think religion is nevertheless based on love; it is not religion in itself that is bad, it is the way people try to interpret it and try to have it influence politics, which should never happen.</p>
<p>"... it is not religion in itself that is bad, it is the way people try to interpret it and try to have it influence politics, which should never happen."</p>
<p>Yep. And I'm agnostic.</p>
<p>Oh! My English teacher told us about the picketing quite a while ago! But I never saw the interview with this woman, who is completely nuts. So, apparently a bunch of vets from Hell's angels made a line to block these people from the signt of the funeral attendents and revved theirs bikes to drown out the noise. :)</p>
<p>She is insane. And I hate her smile.</p>
<p>God really is an angry God. The story of Noah's ark and Moses are perfect examples. Don't mess with God.</p>
<p>If God exists, she's going to hell. Blasphemous whore...</p>
<p>She does have the eeriest smile I've ever seen, but she's not the only one with these kinds of claims; after every natural disaster, Pat Robertson comes out saying that it is just evidence that humanity is being punished by God for whatever sin is bothering him that week.</p>
<p>By all the gods.</p>
<p>Does this woman really think the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob is like this?</p>
<p>She's a blasphemous, ignorant fool who ought to be taken out back and shot.</p>
<p>On a more academic level, and as a Religious Studies major with an emphasis in Judeo-Christian studies, I'll point out some simple facts.</p>
<p>The main message of the Old Testament consists of rules and laws to follow, and how the Lord (one of the many names for the Judeo/Christian God) shall be worshipped, and what the people may and may not do. Many of the rules are no longer followed today, due to inconvenience, their inability to apply to a modern world, etc.</p>
<p>The main message of the New Testament (which is the text Christians mainly follow) is this. "The old world has passed away, and the old rules, and to you I say this: Love the Lord your God, love thy neighbor as thy self; the only way to the Father is through me."</p>
<p>I paraphrased that last line, but you get the general point.</p>
<p>Christians, as a whole, are a beautiful, intelligent, faithful and loving people. I have many as friends. The Patriot Guard (the group of bikers who keeps Phelps' rabble away) are often composed of Christian bikers, although some are not. </p>
<p>Now look at the difference. One group is degrading our war, the wars of others, the lives our countrymen and the lives of others, and our own people, at the emotional expense of genuine mourners of our soldiers who fight for the freedom of another country in America's name.</p>
<p>The other group arrives, with the family's permission, and calmly and peacefully holds the first group off. They don't use foul language. They don't desecrate our country or our dead. They just rev their engines and physically form a barrier to keep the first group from getting too close.</p>
<p>Now tell me. Which group is the more Christian, the more giving and loving, of the two?</p>
<p>The first group is more of a cult than a sect of Christianity. 90% of their "church" is made up of their in-bred relatives.</p>
<p>looooooooool</p>