Westboros Baptist Church -

[Bob's Fries]

You know who they are. If you don't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

Now you think they might be all trolls? Because I have a hard time believing they actually have this much hate and bigotry in this day and age.

 

[Surtur]

Given how long they have been at it no. They are all just completed deluded.

 

[Bob's Fries]

Given how long they have been at it no. They are all just completed deluded.

Well that's just fucking great.

 

[cypocraphy]

I always had a theory that Fred is in the closet.

 

[Saney]

I always had a theory that Fred is in the closet.

I have a theory that Fred's into incest and the father of every single WBC church member.

 

[random_pickle]

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I thought that WBC were just a bunch of lawyers who pissed people off to earn money. Then I saw this.


If they are trolls, then they are damn good actors too.

 

[Bob's Fries]

What's surprising is that he defended African Americans when Jim Crow Laws were in place (recently just looked it up a bit). So... I guess he's delusional like what Surtur said.

 

[Judge Holden]

Actually its far worse than a mere cult. The entire church was built by Fred Phelps senior as the ultimate example of a self important, self worshipping, spiteful, sociopathic ego trip where he could play god in a surrounding of obedient little slaves he could kick the shit out of at will.

To understand just what the WBC is you gotta take a look at his history, and here is probabaly one of the best sources for it on the net

http://www.godhateshomophobes.com/homphelps.php

But if you dont want to read an entire textwall I will try to condense it

So gather round kids. Your old pal Judge Holden brings you a boring, boring rant on what kind of monster phelps is.

(but I seriously suggest reading the above article instead as it is a genuinely terrifying and tearjerking character study into just how a man made of pure evil functions and what he does to his family)

Freddy was already particularly unpleasant shit back in his early days before founding his church with a reputation as a violent fundamentalist, who used religion as tool to attack, control, or bully people in his way, yet who (initially) had enough charm to blend in with those around him. Sadly he had gotten himself a wife and started procreating which allowed him to produce victims who could never escape his control.

He first made a name for himself as a monsterous cunt in the 50s when he started preaching in Topeka Kansas the gospel of female hatred in such a violently hateful manner as to shock even 50s christian fundamentalist kansas (though the loveshys would likely agree), and once it became clear he was a violent and sadistic psycho they promptly abandoned his sermons. After this he moved his family into his church which pretty much became his personal fortress.

Now cut off entirely from the rest of the world and growing ever more violent and sadistic due to drugs, fundamentalism, and the sheer revelry of violently dominating the lives and minds of his kids and wife, he spent the 50s, 60s, and early 70s engaging in every act of cruelty against them short of sexual abuse (that we know... there is a rather disturbing ambiguity in the text as to his actions towards his daughters, and a bit about his "favourite" daughter Kathy that freaked me out) and seemingly made it his mission to make them suffer and break their minds.

Hell his biography at this point pretty much reads like a mix of a horror story and multiple psychopathy checklists. It was only when his eldest daughter flat out pulled a knife on him and threatened to kill him if he ever hurt her mom again that he was revealed to be as cowardly as he was cruel and was then forced to direct his anger and cruelty onto the outside world via the legal profession.

Now unable to physically torture his kids or wife, he decided he would get his jollies from using the legal system to punish the outside world in any way he could, as well as to satisfy his sense of entitlement and greed. At this point he had already made his name as a psychotically litigous and vindictive lawyer who used his used his profession to try and ruin everyone who had ever irritated him before, or who angered or opposed him in any way in the present, and used his claimed "support" of the civil rights movement to try and shield himself from criticism, but only jumped on that bandwagon once he saw the profit that lay in civil rights lawsuits.

However, in the late 70s after years of unprofessionalism that would make Jack Thompson call bullshit and start throwing punches, he was finally chased out of the mainstream legal industry and into the realm of private "nuisance" lawsuits intended to bully and harass people into settling (when he actually got to court he was almost always humiliatingly defeated which also fed his fury) but was eventually investigated and disbarred for several years when it became apparant he was too bad and too scummy a lawyer even for this field.

This pretty much drove the already violently insane freddy into such a rage against the system that had opposed him, for 6 years from 1983-89 he lauched hundreds of frivilous and insanely vindictive yet hopeless lawsuits at literally everyone and anyone from ronald reagan to distant public schoolteachers, but by that point he had managed to bully half his kids through law school to reinforce him in his crusade against everything and anyone, but he had become so insanely immoral and stupid at this point he simply got his entire family disbarred for several years, and himself disbarred permanently.

Now without any physical or legal outlet for his cruelty and desperate need to bully, humilate, and hurt people, he once again turned his kids (and later grandkids) into his weapons of revenge as well as props for his bloated ego. since financially ruining his enemies was out the picture, the worst thing he could think to do to punish the outside world was to attack people at their most emotionally distraught and vulnerable by attacking and harassing funerals.

His protests in the early 90s attracted national, and later worldwide attention as he attacked the funerals of well known people like celebrities or famous murder victims, and outpourings of outrage and fury were always plentiful wherever he went. This finally provided him with what he had always looked for. An easy, risk free way of making people suffer and getting the attention he thought he deserved. Those of his kids who had not escaped were by then too broken and brainwashed to do anything but support him, and raise their own kids and later grandkids to do the same.

And that brings us to now. Due to 20 years of such protests sapping public interest, the WBC has degenerated into a tired joke who only get attention when they get humiliated by Anonymous, which causes it's members to be ever more frantic in trying to offend. The only question is what will happen once freddy finally dies, and whether his cult will die or continue without him

What is sadly certain, is that he will not suffer a fraction of the pure screaming agony he deserves before he goes to hell.

 

[BigAltheGreat921]

Wow. This guy has a lot of parallels with CWC, from the sense of entitlement all the way to the revenge fantasies.

Phelps is in no way, shape or form a Christian--he's a complete heretic.

 

[random_pickle]

WTF

So he uses the Bible as an excuse to vent his anger on funerals? Damn, this guy's nuts.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

Great post, Judge Holden. I knew that monster was abusive, but I never knew how much.

But to contradict my prior thought, I'm hoping the public will start to see them as a joke and people just start pointing and laughing at them instead of taking them seriously.

I wonder how many protesters will show up at Fred Phelps's funeral and taunt his mourners?

 

[Saney]

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From Louis Theroux's documentary: The Most Hated Family in America.

 

[Judge Holden]

WTF

So he uses the Bible as an excuse to vent his anger on funerals? Damn, this guy's nuts.

Religion is merely cosmetic for what he does and what he orders. He likely latched on to far right christiantity as a youth because it appealed to his self importance and ego to be a "prophet of the lord" and to taunt people with an eternity of torture for them and their loved ones should he wish to cause them suffering. The only excuse he needs to make someone suffer is for them to exist even slightly outside his control or to exist even slightly in a manner that does not fit in with his ever changing obsessions and whims.

 

[Saney]

Great post, Judge Holden. I knew that monster was abusive, but I never knew how much.

But to contradict my prior thought, I'm hoping the public will start to see them as a joke and people just start pointing and laughing at them instead of taking them seriously.

I wonder how many protesters will show up at Fred Phelps's funeral and taunt his mourners?

I know that when Phelps dies, I will dance on his grave.

 

[Rio]

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Also, the way this man literally brainwashes his family is actually a little bit scary. He completely conditions them to hate everyone he wants them to hate.

 

[Judge Holden]

Great post, Judge Holden. I knew that monster was abusive, but I never knew how much.

But to contradict my prior thought, I'm hoping the public will start to see them as a joke and people just start pointing and laughing at them instead of taking them seriously.

I wonder how many protesters will show up at Fred Phelps's funeral and taunt his mourners?

They already have. Hell, they only get real attention when they are mocked or someone escapes these days. The only exception is when they threatened to attack the funerals of Sandy Hook victims and were then pwned by Anons.

As for when Freddy finally dies, I originally advocated merciless karmic retribution against the remaining family, and still think they should be subject to scorn, mockery, and fecal based projectile attacks whenever they protest, but in view of just how broken these people are I feel that they may need more professional help than attacks from the outside.

That is of course assuming the cult and protests end the moment Freddy heads to hell.

If they continue after he dies, I would personally suggest completely disinterring the corpse and putting it on a vidya taped trial for the Church's crimes, before hanging, drawing, and quartering it, and then throwing every piece into the tub of a construction site porta-potty, then liquidizing the contents in a blender, letting several syphilitic aids victims ejaculate into it, filling a hundred water balloons with it, and then pelting it at the church's adult members in their next protest.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

I'm glad to see the public sees them as a joke now. I'm surprised people still get upset because of them. Their shock value has worn off, and there are plenty of religious extremists out there. Really, unless they declare a jihad against DA HOMOS and start to blow up gay bars, they'll soon be irrelevant.

I remember someone saying Fred Phelps and his family literally get off (as in actually get an orgasm) from people hating them.

And yeah, Saney, I'm sure they'll have to guard his tombstone against people dancing or urinating or otherwise desecrating his grave. He might even try to get buried in his compound like great men used to get buried in Westminster Abbey.

 

[Bugaboo]

I love how they're picketing the funerals of people who died defending their right to stand around and picket things. That's just delightful.
And if they hate America so much, why the hell do they live there?
And according to that kid:
-Hundreds and hundreds of jews will go to hell: So only 999 jews will go to hell but everybody else will go to heaven. Horray!
-Soldier's families get raped and stuff: K thanks.
And what if that kid goes to school and starts throwing around the fag-bomb, then he gets in trouble and his parents come in and a giant shit fit begins. But knowing cults he probably gets home schooled or taught within the church lest the outside world fills him head with rational ideas.

It always pisses me off when kids get involved in this shit. They just parrot stuff their family tells them, they'll never really believe it or understand why they need to hate "fags"

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

I love how they're picketing the funerals of people who died defending their right to stand around and picket things. That's just delightful.
And if they hate America so much, why the hell do they live there?

Because no other decent country will put up with them

 

[Saney]

I love how they're picketing the funerals of people who died defending their right to stand around and picket things. That's just delightful.
And if they hate America so much, why the hell do they live there?

Because no other decent country will put up with them

England staight out banned them. It was the best decision anyone has ever made.