Un-dying and update!

I thought that I wouldn't have to be making any more blog posts (my last was in 2008! did Google even own Blogger then?), I noticed that my first one was picked up by someone doing research on the Westboro Baptist Church - I assume the recent Supreme Court hearings on DOMA and Prop8 were the reason.

With that being said, I checked that post and saw it was completely out of date.  Not only would images fail to load, but the criticisms were years out of date! WBC has decided that God doesn't hate America --- But the world! That's right! GodHatesAmerica.com redirects to a super-ominous but quite hilarious PORTAL site! Why is that? Because God has decided to distribute hate evenly, apparently. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you GodHatesTheWorld.com!

Jesus hates the little children...

Yes, that's right. God has decided to widen his lens aperture and bukakke the world with hatred like no other supernatural being can. God also seems to have hired some competent web designers -- however, it still looks pretty bad. It feels like a Yahoo! Directory instead of a website.

So if you notice, there is a "world map locator" -- that's right -- every single country is listed. Consider this Fred Phelps's version of a High School "Hit List". I haven't even begun clicking through these portal links, because I assume it's just random news events in between incoherent ramblings from Fred (or whoever types that shit up) about how certain actions mean death to America. I remember when I had made a jab at "South America", thinking that, from such a hyperbolic suggestion, Fred couldn't possibly go that far. I was wrong. Not only did he go there, he built a fag-hating rocket and shot himself into crazy-space.

Oh, but notice something  at the top. "BUT WHAT ABOUT JOHN3:16, HUH?" Yeah, what about that verse? It's one of the most popular verses (if not THE most) in the Holy Bible -- but let's see what Fred thinks about "love", shall we? No? Too bad. You wanted to go full derp.

"Oh! John 3:16 conflicts with my entire message! Better make some shit up!"

You can see from this page that Fred Phelps is what I call a "Hyper-Calvinist". That is, he takes the worst parts of the Puritan movement and meshes it with Calvin's ideology. The result? God doesn't love the "world" (Or "kosmos" as Fred calls it, which actually means the entire celestial plane, not just the blue sphere) but uh.. let's just take the first paragraph.

John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." That says God loves everyone, right? Wrong. Every so-called Christian in the world will cite John 3:16 as proof that God loves everyone. They don't have a clue what the verse means, and, under the guidance of the lying false prophets who make up the "Christian" landscape, twist it to mean what they want it to mean. We call that "wresting the scripture unto your own destruction." 2 Peter 3:16.

Say what now?

 The context is "the world of believers" (whether they are Jews or Gentiles). Those are the people God loves. Those are the people for whom Jesus died. Jesus didn't come to condemn those people - He came to save them. But everyone else is already condemned, because they don't believe.

You'll say "but doesn't 'whosoever believes' mean that everybody has the chance to believe?" Nope. Turn a few pages to John 10 (you may be surprised to find that there is actually more to the Bible than John 3:16, but believe me, there is). You will find in John 10:11 that Jesus says "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." Later on in verse 26, Jesus says to some unbelievers: "But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you." Uh oh - you John 3:16 heretics have a few problems on your hands. Jesus says He came to die for the sheep, and then proceeds to say that only His sheep can believe.

Notice the spin yet? "whosoever believes" doesn't mean "whosoever believes". It means that... well, uh, basically Fred doesn't even state his case correctly. It isn't until later that he tries to tie it all up with his hate-rope, but as always, Fred fucks it up.

 In other words, only the people for whom Jesus died will believe. Note that the reason that unbelievers don't believe is BECAUSE they are not His sheep. This passage explains who the world is in John 3:16, and it's clearly not everyone. Furthermore, the only people who can believe are the ones whom God has ordained to eternal life. 

Wait, are you actually trying to say--

 So, if you have been ordained to eternal life, that means that you will believe, you are one of God's sheep, God loves you, and He sent His Son to die for you so you wouldn't be condemned. If you have not been ordained to eternal life, that means you are not one of His sheep, you NEVER will believe and are already condemned. 

Aaaah there it is! The "God's Elect" thing. From what I understand, according to Calvinist teachings,  the people that God chooses to be saved by the gift of faith in this life, before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, are called His Elect. In other words, predestination.

You can easily see now why Fred Phelps acts the way he does. He has convinced his followers ,and maybe himself, that his church and his church alone are the only ones whom God loves. Now you're probably thinking, "Wow, that would be really stupid to assume!" And you'd be right. The concept of "Predestination" has been largely discredited by modern biblical scholars, because to assume that there is a finite, chosen few, leaving the rest to the dogs, really goes against every single teaching in the Gospels, especially since Progressive Christianity surfaced.


So in other words, Fred is, once again, a self-entitled hate machine that has turned the best word - love - into pure piss and vinegar. With this in mind, why would Fred Phelps be so caught up on "fags" if he has already decided who turns, and who burns?

BECAUSE HE'S GAY.

That's right. I'm calling it now. He isn't out for an evangelical mission, since he's already convinced those eggs have been counted. This should only mean that he is taunting people in a sort of  "Look what I have! That you won't have! " kind of manner. The problem with that is that Phelps has nothing to show for it except being an attention whore and a really, really bad troll.

But he seems too obsessed to be merely trolling and taunting. I fear we may be witnessing a human example of an integer overflow. Someone who would preach that hard against something so trivial to his cause, is obviously speaking from experience or shame. Human nature isn't that random.

And if he's not gay, he has unwittingly confused homosexuality with pedophilia. From Wikipedia: 

"Shirley Phelps-Roper says that, in the late 1980s, Fred Phelps witnessed a homosexual attempting to lure her then five-year-old son Joshua into some shrubbery. After several complaints to the local government about the large amount of homosexual sex occurring in the park, with no resulting action, the Phelpses put up signs warning of homosexual activity. "

That isn't a homosexual, Fred, That's a pedophile. Fred seems to know a lot about them -- since his website, preistsrapeboys.com, still exists. The problem is that Fred, like many others in the 80s, assumed homosexuality and pedophilia were somehow linked. We now know that is untrue -- And I think Fred knows too.

There are a lot of documented "things that make you go 'hmm...' " incidents about preaching from the closet. A site called "Porn MD" did some data mining on each country's xxx searches were. As I type this, an African country's 2nd highest search was, and I quote, "monster cocks". Said country also has a law on the books making homosexuality punishable by death.

No comment.

I once held the belief that it could be possible to hate homosexuality as a concept, and the people that are homosexual, and not be one at all. After all, I in 2003, I was quite the Evangelical "fagbasher" myself. I blame college for opening up my eyes to how stupid and self-hating I was of myself,  but still had hope that there could be someone legitimately straight out there that hated gay people.

I'm not so sure about that anymore. I do, however, know that PornMD has spotted me.

Number nine, number nine, number nine...

I may do another entry on the individual links, but once again, expect a 4 year delay. It's the best I can do.