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A lot of you are probably going to hate me and delete me for expressing my sincere thoughts regarding the Westboro Baptist Church (if you don't know what I'm talking about, I suggest you look it up on Wikipedia.org. I also recommend "The Most Hated Family In America" featured on YouTube.com.
First and foremost I'd like to openly state that I am a proud agnostic bisexual (not 50% heterosexual or 50% lesbian but 100% bisexual) and that I find the message they spread to be nothing less than reprehensible. But I've been watching a lot of videos from various sources about the Phelps family and their church and I have to admit, as much as I hate to give them credit, that their teachings and the passages they quote can indeed be found in the Bible and a lot of these passages are firm and clear and there really aren't many ways to interpret them. It is true that God (according to the Bible, or at least according to these people's understanding of it) isn't all about tolerance and love. The Bible in my opinion is one of the most violent collection of books ever made. You can't just pick the bits you like best and discard the rest. If I personally were a Christian, I would pray, honor and worship every word of the Bible and apply them to my everyday life at all times under all circumstances whether I enjoyed it or not because I would believe in them. I would probably be as vehement as they are and I certainly wouldn't ignore or reinvent anything to my advantage. Doing otherwise to me would be hypocritical and an insult to Christianity.
This is why as a Canadian, I wasn't in favor of gay marriage. To tell you the truth, I don't know why a gay person would even want to be a Christian. Nothing about the Bible as we know it would lead someone to believe that homosexuality is acceptable. Christians who preach otherwise obviously didn't read the same Bible I did. I'm writing about this assuming that every single word was carefully translated and that nothing was ever altered in any way somewhere in history. If the Bible truly reflects God's will, it should be taken seriously by those who believe in it and I don't blame them for doing so. I think it's morally objectionable for our society that fought so hard for the separation of church and state to impose its liberal, progressionist views upon the church and therefore forcing it to "evolve" with the rest of us and modify its indisputable meaning. It's not like there aren't other ways for us to become legally united. And don't you dare tell me that you want to get married to celebrate your love for each other and not your love for God. You can't get married in a church and pretend it doesn't have anything to do with Christianity. Hypocrites. You insult Christianity and you insult yourselves.
Again, it doesn't mean that I agree with them. But from a Christian perspective, I think they are right.
On a more positive note, it seems that the Westboro Baptist Church is bringing people together according to a blogger:
"The Westboro Baptist Church has actually done something good. It brings liberals and conservatives together. Liberals and conservatives come together over their mutual hate for the WBC. Conservatives hate the WBC because they hate America; liberals hate the WBC because they hate gays. What cold irony. In fact, miraculously, when either side argues against the WBC, there seem to be conservatives mildly defending gays, and liberals timidly defending Bush. Now, is this because conservatives and liberals lack conviction in their beliefs? Not so. I believe that the WBC has an amazing effect on liberals and conservatives. When they look at it, they see a terrible version of themselves. Conservatives see the horrific hate-speech stemming from the WBC and see an extreme version of their own anti-gay ideas; liberals see the Bush-bashing rhetoric and see a reflection of their own words. Both sides are appalled by the WBC-not just because it opposes a set of their values, but because it reflects another set of their own values, in an extremely warped way. Liberals do not want to hate Bush and America as vehemently as the WBC. Conservatives do not want to wish horrors upon people of homosexual preference. Thus conservatives and liberals, when confronted by the WBC, tend to gravitate towards a milder, more reasonable middle ground, one in which gays are not evil and Bush is not a terrorist. And for that, and that alone, I thank the Westboro Baptist Church."
What do you think?
Edit: PS: Read the comments.
First and foremost I'd like to openly state that I am a proud agnostic bisexual (not 50% heterosexual or 50% lesbian but 100% bisexual) and that I find the message they spread to be nothing less than reprehensible. But I've been watching a lot of videos from various sources about the Phelps family and their church and I have to admit, as much as I hate to give them credit, that their teachings and the passages they quote can indeed be found in the Bible and a lot of these passages are firm and clear and there really aren't many ways to interpret them. It is true that God (according to the Bible, or at least according to these people's understanding of it) isn't all about tolerance and love. The Bible in my opinion is one of the most violent collection of books ever made. You can't just pick the bits you like best and discard the rest. If I personally were a Christian, I would pray, honor and worship every word of the Bible and apply them to my everyday life at all times under all circumstances whether I enjoyed it or not because I would believe in them. I would probably be as vehement as they are and I certainly wouldn't ignore or reinvent anything to my advantage. Doing otherwise to me would be hypocritical and an insult to Christianity.
This is why as a Canadian, I wasn't in favor of gay marriage. To tell you the truth, I don't know why a gay person would even want to be a Christian. Nothing about the Bible as we know it would lead someone to believe that homosexuality is acceptable. Christians who preach otherwise obviously didn't read the same Bible I did. I'm writing about this assuming that every single word was carefully translated and that nothing was ever altered in any way somewhere in history. If the Bible truly reflects God's will, it should be taken seriously by those who believe in it and I don't blame them for doing so. I think it's morally objectionable for our society that fought so hard for the separation of church and state to impose its liberal, progressionist views upon the church and therefore forcing it to "evolve" with the rest of us and modify its indisputable meaning. It's not like there aren't other ways for us to become legally united. And don't you dare tell me that you want to get married to celebrate your love for each other and not your love for God. You can't get married in a church and pretend it doesn't have anything to do with Christianity. Hypocrites. You insult Christianity and you insult yourselves.
Again, it doesn't mean that I agree with them. But from a Christian perspective, I think they are right.
On a more positive note, it seems that the Westboro Baptist Church is bringing people together according to a blogger:
"The Westboro Baptist Church has actually done something good. It brings liberals and conservatives together. Liberals and conservatives come together over their mutual hate for the WBC. Conservatives hate the WBC because they hate America; liberals hate the WBC because they hate gays. What cold irony. In fact, miraculously, when either side argues against the WBC, there seem to be conservatives mildly defending gays, and liberals timidly defending Bush. Now, is this because conservatives and liberals lack conviction in their beliefs? Not so. I believe that the WBC has an amazing effect on liberals and conservatives. When they look at it, they see a terrible version of themselves. Conservatives see the horrific hate-speech stemming from the WBC and see an extreme version of their own anti-gay ideas; liberals see the Bush-bashing rhetoric and see a reflection of their own words. Both sides are appalled by the WBC-not just because it opposes a set of their values, but because it reflects another set of their own values, in an extremely warped way. Liberals do not want to hate Bush and America as vehemently as the WBC. Conservatives do not want to wish horrors upon people of homosexual preference. Thus conservatives and liberals, when confronted by the WBC, tend to gravitate towards a milder, more reasonable middle ground, one in which gays are not evil and Bush is not a terrorist. And for that, and that alone, I thank the Westboro Baptist Church."
What do you think?
Edit: PS: Read the comments.