Sunday, April 18, 2010

Whatever Westborough

People act so shocked by the Westborough Baptist Church. Quite frankly, I'm just not. What I am shocked at is the fact that so many are.
Most religious people pick and choose small areas of the bible to obsess over. Why? Because it is very difficult for people to stick to the entirety of the bible as it contradicts itself repeatedly. Why is that? Well there are a lot of reasons. One, the bible was written by a lot of different people. Two, the bible was written in Latin and later translated into every language. Thus misinterpretations were had. The bible has a ton of small messages that could be argued to be hateful and exclusive, meanwhile other sections that promote understanding and love.
Westborough...is run by an old geezer. And if I had a dollar for every time I have seen an old geezer tell a bunch of people they are going to hell...I'd be richer than this groups publicity manager. Westborough followers were started by one family, a family who fabricated a formula; bad things happen because God hates fags. Ok...so who cares?
Well they know how to get on TV. That's why. And you know what they say. People who know how to get on TV get the attention they ask for. It's simple really. They picket outside funerals. One of the most shockingly cold hearted things a person can come up with.
So lets sum it up. Crazy old man raises a crazy family. Crazy family gets the attention of news cameras. Simple, right? So why are we all so baffled? They are nothing new. And quite frankly I don't even want to picket at Fred Phelps' funeral. I'd prefer the guy died surrounded by his own crazy family and not the people that made him famous in the first place.

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