Westboro Baptist Church, apparently God hates Ireland!

Ush1

http://www.godhatestheworld.com/ireland/index.html

In the video, the flag looks suspiciously like an Italian one.

mehfesto

I thought it was stupid and then I saw that they hate Finland.
Now it's just retarded. Nobody hates Finland.

Out of curiosity though, how do they get away with using well known images for spreading hatred? The Beatles Abbey Road being one - but surely the other well known faces dont want their images there - Winehouse, Adam Sandler, etc...???

Azure_sky

That website has been around for ages. WBC aim to have a site for every nation in the world God hates-which is every nation,apparently. According to them, God is a misanthropist. Considering they believe God made humans they must worship a pretty silly deity, as creating something you end up hating does'nt seem like a smart thing to do.

Pushtrak

Ush1 wrote: »

http://www.godhatestheworld.com/ireland/index.html

In the video, the flag looks suspiciously like an Italian one.

I see your link, and raise you another.

Zillah

Apparently what triggered it was the Trinity Philosophy Society inviting him for a debate, and he refused on the grounds that it was probably a liberal plot to lure him to Europe where our hate-speech laws would allow us to arrest him.

Anyway, I don't think the Westboro Baptists have much to do with religion. Fred Phelps is a sociopath, he happens to have chosen extreme conservativism as the tool by which he controls people.

The Mad Hatter

Zillah wrote: »

Apparently what triggered it was the Trinity Philosophy Society inviting him for a debate, and he refused on the grounds that it was probably a liberal plot to lure him to Europe where our hate-speech laws would allow us to arrest him.

Point of pedantry: it was the UCD Literary and Historical society, actually. Link.

Pushtrak wrote: »

I see your link, and raise you another.

Sadly, the WBC are not satire. They picket funerals.

branie

If God hates Ireland, then why did He send St Patrick to us, then?

krudler

branie wrote: »

If God hates Ireland, then why did He send St Patrick to us, then?

To drive out the snakes, who the English sent in to eat all our potatoes, didnt you do history in school?

robindch

branie wrote: »

If God hates Ireland, then why did He send St Patrick to us, then?

1500 years of christianity?

Though I can't imagine what national sins could have merited that.

Ush1

Of what extraction is your man Phelps? Wonder if he's AS critical of his ancestor nation(s).

mehfesto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWAawKFMYfs

Let he who is withou sin... Yadda yards yadda

deise go deo

Let he who is withou sin... Yadda yards yadda

I like that guy:)

Galvasean

WBC spokesperson: "Heath Ledger was a fag lover and enabler. We are going to picket his funeral, you can count on that!"

Reporter: "It's in Australia."

WBC spokesperson: "...."

micktrim

people like that deserve a slap

mehfesto

One more (I think this is genius)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Of_2ykZpQ

krudler

Anyone see the Louis Theroux doc on the WBC? its well worth a watch, Phelps is a cretin.

wonderfulname

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Point of pedantry: it was the UCD Literary and Historical society, actually. Link.

Can anyone find this game mentioned in the above link;

There's also a brainteaser to while away the hours entitled Fags v Kids ("the object of the game is to place exactly five sodomites -- represented by pink swastikas -- and exactly three kids -- represented by a baby bottle -- onto the grid on the right so that none of the the sodomites can get their repulsive hands on the children"). Suduko move over.

It just sounds hilarious..

i71jskz5xu42pb

Do you know what God really hates? I mean something totally gets up his snots, sends into one of those red mist rages.

It's when practically the last person in the world to have heard of the WBC thinks this might be interesting to anybody else. It isn't. It's been done to death again
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(well you see where I'm going with this)

Craven99

mehfesto wrote: »

One more (I think this is genius)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Of_2ykZpQ

It IS genius

wonderfulname

Selah Hollow Cobble wrote: »

It's when practically the last person in the world to have heard of the WBC thinks this might be interesting to anybody else. It isn't. It's been done to death again and again.....

Ah now, yes most people have been aware of them for a long long time but come on they're the funniest fundamentalists going, I can never resist a fresh nose at their sites when they pop back up on forums/the news or in conversation. And the sites are kept somewhat updated so there's something new to laugh at every time. Lighten up, keep talking like that and you'll become the Anti-Phelps, doomed to walk the earth a militant fundamentalist of vaguely liberal origins, picketing the births of babies which could have been aborted...

i71jskz5xu42pb

Meh, not only are most people aware of it, it would see most posters are too lazy to do a simple search so see if it's been done (to death) before. Don't worry the weekend approaches, my mood is improving.

I do however like your Anti-Phelps idea though, I think I'll go picket a hetro wedding this weekend, "Homo or Go Home", how's that for a chant?

rockmongrel

Selah Hollow Cobble wrote: »

Meh, not only are most people aware of it

I completely disagree, most of my friends would have no idea who the WBC are, only through me or one of my other atheist friends saying it to them would they know.

i71jskz5xu42pb

Say it to them by all means, respond to one of the many threads devoted to all things WBC, just don't start a new thread on here every second week like you've just discovered a new continent.

The Mad Hatter

Every second week? You found four. Only two in this forum.

strobe

LOL who took the jam out of your donut Pman?

mehfesto

Internet in Duplicate Thread Shocker.
New Users Blamed For Not Knowing The Interwebs Fully


This woman was admitted for mental therapy when she found an old topic rehashed. "I just can't seem to not click into the threads that don't interest me anymore!" she exclaimed.

PeterIanStaker

I saw the Theroux documentary a couple of years ago. They really are batsh!t mental. What was interesting/mental is that one of them was a journalist who came to report on them, but wound up joining them.

i71jskz5xu42pb

strobe wrote: »

LOL who took the jam out of your donut Pman?

Someone took the hole of my doughnut and replaced it with jam. When I find the fecker, :mad:, I won't be held responsible that's all I can say.

wonderfulname

rockmongrel wrote:

most of my friends would have no idea who the WBC are

I think its fair to say they aren't current affairs people then. Most people know of the WBC as the loonys who picket soldiers funerals, when they started at that the American and British media went mad for them.

i71jskz5xu42pb

mehfesto wrote: »

New Users Blamed For Not Knowing The Interwebs Fully

I'm glad somebody else around here grasps the enormity of the issue, I was beginning to think I was on my own.

It would be worse if the OP actually were a new user (as opposed to somebody with 3K posts who should probably know better), new user's really need it put to them.

wonderfulname

Selah Hollow Cobble wrote: »

I'm glad somebody else around here grasps the enormity of the issue, I was beginning to think I was on my own.

It would be worse if the OP actually were a new user (as opposed to somebody with 3K posts who should probably know better), new user's really need it put to them.

Maybe it should go in the forum charter.. and all these pesky threads be moved to the christianity forum where they surely belong.. after all why would an atheist care for the rantings of a christian organisation?