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Why are some people so dispicable?

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zombieharlot

Some Kind of Strange
maggie2 said:
Jerrell,

Don't you realize that you are doing exactly the same thing as she is doing? You condemn gays and Wiccans in other threads and then you go on about this woman? Maybe it's time you woke up and smelled the coffee and realized that you might be just as misguided as she is.:bonk:
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That's what I'm sayin.
 
Booko

Booko

Deviled Hen
D.L. Dallman said:
Yes, she is one of the Phelps slaves. I had a brief conversation with her. She is entirely non-sensical. Thankfully, I had the opportunity to talk with her long enough to break her down with Biblical verse. She repeatedly tried to call the "Out of context" card, but it was unjustified. I like how Colmes notes that the contents of WBC primarily consists of the Phelps family.
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Good Heavens...when did you have an opportunity to meet such a person and actually talk to her?

The way their "church" er...family...operates reminds me more of the modern use of the term "cult." :(

One wonders what would happen if someone left that family and lived in the real world for a while. A little deprogramming might be of great use.
 
standing_on_one_foot

standing_on_one_foot

Well-Known Member
Sometimes I feel bad for Jesus, I really do. People use his message in the oddest ways. Talk about missing the point...'course, every religion has it's nuts. But even so. At people's funerals?
 
c0da

c0da

Active Member
Sometimes I feel bad for Jesus, I really do. People use his message in the oddest ways. Talk about missing the point...'course, every religion has it's nuts. But even so. At people's funerals?
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I know, It's not enough that they have to have such horrible opinions, but they try to get them across at funerals? It is extremely low.
 
Booko

Booko

Deviled Hen
standing_alone said:
Yeah, WBC is dispicable and I knew that this picketing of soldier's funerals was going on for a while. I am sickened by this great show of disrespect. I've heard that a group of motorcyclists goes to their protests to rev their engines to cover up the protesters.
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Yup...and it really peeved me that my husband made me sell the bike some years ago, or I would've considered a road trip.

Hm, that reminds me...I should email a friend of mine and see if he *did* make a road trip. It would be just like him.

Bikers rule! :jam:

As much as I believe in free speech, it does some limits. I'll be interested to see if the law in Iowa passes Constitutional muster.
 
Ciscokid

Ciscokid

Well-Known Member
maggie2 said:
Jerrell,

Don't you realize that you are doing exactly the same thing as she is doing? You condemn gays and Wiccans in other threads and then you go on about this woman? Maybe it's time you woke up and smelled the coffee and realized that you might be just as misguided as she is.:bonk:
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Taking a moral stand against gays and wiccans is a FAR FAR cry from what this woman is doing. She's picketing at funerals for God's sake!
 
D.L. Dallman

D.L. Dallman

New Member
Booko said:
Good Heavens...when did you have an opportunity to meet such a person and actually talk to her?

The way their "church" er...family...operates reminds me more of the modern use of the term "cult." :(

One wonders what would happen if someone left that family and lived in the real world for a while. A little deprogramming might be of great use.
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Haha. The conversation did not take part in person, but rather over the internet. I have participated in a number of counter-protests against WBC members, including the one at Palmer Highschool (a Colorado Springs school that, after a long court hearing, was forced to allow students to form a GSA group), and various churches in Colorado. I, personally, think they should be left on their own. They are just another hate group... They are less dignified, in fact, than either the NSA or the KKK, in that they have *no* political basis on which to express their beliefs.

They are simply claiming to be morally superior, and thus, the final channel for advice on moral action.
 
EnhancedSpirit

EnhancedSpirit

High Priestess
Suffering often occurs at the hand of others. But it has a way of revealing what is in our own hearts. Capacities for love, mercy, anger, envy, and pride can lie dormant until awakened by circumstances. Strength and weakness of heart is found not when everything is going our way but when flames of suffering and temptation test the mettle of our character. As gold and silver are refined by fire, and as coal needs time and pressure to become a diamond, the human heart is revealed and developed by enduring the pressure and heat of time and circumstance. Strength of character is shown not when all is well with our world but in the presence of human pain and suffering (Job 42:1-17; Romans 5:3-5; James 1:2-5; 1 Peter 1:6-8).

from http://www.rbc.org/rtb/4rsn/4.3.html
 
Booko

Booko

Deviled Hen
D.L. Dallman said:
Haha. The conversation did not take part in person, but rather over the internet. I have participated in a number of counter-protests against WBC members, including the one at Palmer Highschool (a Colorado Springs school that, after a long court hearing, was forced to allow students to form a GSA group), and various churches in Colorado. I, personally, think they should be left on their own. They are just another hate group... They are less dignified, in fact, than either the NSA or the KKK, in that they have *no* political basis on which to express their beliefs.
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<whew> I thought maybe you'd actually been in the room. I've had a couple of occasions where someone made my skin crawl, and you know, I wonder if Phelps and his family wouldn't do the same. On those occasions, I high tail it as soon as possible.

I've heard of Fred Phelps for years, not, but not often. I've always assumed people just didn't want to give him a mike to help spread his peculiar form of paranoia. I wouldn't normally think it a good idea to give them one now, except it served the purpose getting some people out to stop their abusive nonsense.

They are simply claiming to be morally superior, and thus, the final channel for advice on moral action.
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Yeah, well, by their fruits and all that...
 
maggie2

maggie2

Active Member
Ciscokid said:
Taking a moral stand against gays and wiccans is a FAR FAR cry from what this woman is doing. She's picketing at funerals for God's sake!
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I totally agree with you that what this woman is DOING is quite different than saying that gays and Wiccans are evil and wrong and not 'of God' and more. However, what I was referring to was the motivation behind her action and those statements and that motivation is exactly the same...moral superiority, a sense of having all the answers, arrogance in believing that they are 100% correct just to name some of that motivation. That is what I was referring to, not the ACTIONS she took.
 
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