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hmmm...salvation with Phelps-Roper or eternity in hell fire...I'm thinking, I'm thinking

Hi! Pop Pickers!!

I haven't seen/heard this 'release' yet, so I'll withhold critical appraisal for now...

However, most struggling artists that I know (many with enviable talent) strive for years to scrape up a sufficient A&R advance to fund a demo recording - even in this digital day and age. That The Phelps Family Singers can finance a video project is amazing - especially when we consider that they are actively pleading poverty even as I write. I thought that they were down to their last million.

Like I say, I haven't heard this 'classic' yet - but I have heard Phelps-Roper sing, and: 1) Don't give up your day job (of being an obnoxious but marginal, tone deaf, no-talent busker); 2) the devil does seem to have the best tunes.

Question: will there be a "Collector's Edition" CD/DVD?

catchy tune, powerful lyrics. Maybe God really does hate us? After all he created a system where we have to put up with morons like these.

As a REAL Christian, I would love to crack a couple of these people upside the head with a baseball bat. They are the reason people like me get a bad rep without anyone even knowing me. Of Course, then i would just be another stinking molecule in the giant pile of crap called "general Christianity"...

If they are going to heaven and we're all going to hell then I gotta say hell sounds like a much better place. See you there!

ok so how come the mayors offices in berkeley,ca said using the word bullsht when talking about the disciminaton and bad management near politicians was intolerable and these wackos have support and funding, apparently lots.

still in the usa,got to hate the right people?
im confused i though usa was supposed to be about helping and inclusion and not hating.
i thought the whole god thing was too.

god got bored of love and acceptance? what?
who are we supposed to hate and curse to hell now?
can someone give us the list?

This is about the worst thing that a group or church could be known for. How does this cause Glory to God or to the cause of redemption. shame on this church.

Reject God and he will reject you! The False Idols in America are the ones in uniform

These people are sick. God himself should be ashamed of them.

God is not ashamed of his warriors. He kills the false idols of American pride and the whoores of degredation

Hmmm. "As a REAL Christian", Joey would "love to crack a couple of these people upside the head with a baseball bat."
Joey, I suspect they are NOT the reason people like you get a "bad rep".

The devil wears many disguises. In this case he's dressed up like a bunch of fruitcakes in Kansas. Still, make no mistake, it's definately the devil.

Maybe if the people and the media ignore these mislead people, they just might go broke and go away. I for one would not purchase a thing from them or take it for free.

These idiots are playing with fire. Unless they are cherry-picking funerals to be non-confrontational, someday they are going to go to the wrong one. The dead soldiers dad or uncle will have served, and might still have a few wartime souviners in his trunk. I for one know several people who, had these nuts come anywhere near their sons funeral, would have killed as many as they could before the cops brought them down.

Its also a little curious that the savior these nuts profess to worship defended adulterers, the soldiers ultimately responsible for his death, and sinners of all kinds. Whether or not you believe homosexuality to be a sin, I sincerely doubt the god they worship approves. They are single handedly driving more people from christianity by their actions than anything else I can think of. I bet God appreciates it.

Homosexuality kills American troops. It is of the utmost importance to every son and daughter of Adam to squarely face this issue and to sincerely, honestly resolve it. At your peril -- everlasting peril that is -- you will handle this matter in a cavalier, insincere or intellectually dishonest manner. No room for self-deceit or sophistry here, oh no! Because the matter is clearly, plainly and simply resolvable by all objective criteria.
God hates you and His warth will soon be upon you.

Jesus Loves the little children. All the chidren of the World. Yellow, brown black and white. They are precious in His site. Jesus loves the little children of the world.

We all are God's Children.

Without Sin, if there is no room for self-deceit, sophistry, or intellectual dishonesty, then know this -- you are wasting your life following Rev. Phelps. You are conveniently ascribing to God the actions of SOME men, while ascribing to men the actions of others. You can't have it both ways.

If God is responsible for the actions of men who set the IEDs, then God is responsbile for the actions of all of us (including the homosexuals). If he's only responsible for the actions of some of us, not all of us, then you and Rev. Phelps can't possibly know which ones he influences and which ones he doesn't, and it is astonishingly arrogant of you to assume you have the special knowledge the rest of us missed.

That's intellectual honesty, Without Sin.

This story is truly sad. Here we have a bunch of people, not christians, just people, proclaiming that God hates. While the bible says that God hates sin, it says nowhere that he hates people. He may not agree with what people choose to do, but he loves them anyway with an everlasting love, and yearns for them to give up their sin and turn to him. That's scriptural. I would be wary of shouting out that God is using the deaths of loved ones, fallen heros, to punish the nation. God's punishment is yet to come. For now, he reigns on the just and the unjust....in case you didn't know, that's scriptural too.

Aside from God, it is completely unethical and immoral to protest at funerals. People are grieving the loss of their loved ones. Their sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, fathers, sons, aunts, uncles, etc. Allow them to mourn in peace, and worry about your own spiritual health, because it sounds to me like this church has an awful lot to worry about.

"let him without sin cast the first" stone. The point was, nobody could. The Westboro chuch is truly a brood of vipers. Pharisees who consider themselve blameless/sinless and yet are doomed by their own wickeness. My God have mercy on THEIR souls. They're gonna need it.

I haven't heard the song nor do I care to . It is true we have all sinned , and fall short of the glory of God but whatever happened to Love the sinner and Hate the sin ? God does Love everyone even the misguided .

Didn't somebody sue Fred and bought his church and the land it sit on?

In the Bible scriptures Christ told us to Love one another, not to hate one another. It also told us to Cast out all fear and perfect a pure love. However we know from experience that Fear opens the door to hate and hate leads to tragic events that can lead to death. Fred is either fearful of loving people or gets his fix on hating people. Imagine if Christ or God was like Fred. I don't think mankind would exist today because my boss is a straight up Ass Hole to his co-workers, wife, kids, and mistress, but God still loves him regardless of how others feel, God even loves Fred and his misled offspring...

You Go John! I like your remark!

How intelligent can a person be to follow a man that thinks our military thats in a war are all gay. Does that mean all military personal is gay or just those defending their country,for the worlds freedom. Westboro believers you are in a cult, I would like to know if you believe in comets also, just to give the rest of us some hope.

These Westboro Baptists represent a very small church, and most of the congregation is related to each other. Sadly, in-breeding does little to explain such rabid hatred, ignorance, hypocrisy, and general looniness.
God doesn't hate people, although He most likely is sorely disappointed. But these people are way over the line.
I'm glad they lost an $11M lawsuit, and can't wait until these nut-jobs return to the obscurity and nothingness from which they came. I went to their website to gloat about their loss, but it isn't up right now.
They best never come to MY town. They protest a military funeral here, and they're likely to be assaulted. Severely. Deservedly. Repeatedly.
On second thought, I hope they DO come here.
Awful, awful people, some of the worst in the world.

Westboro Baptists are just like the Extremist Jihadists of the Christian world. People like that are unreasonable but they should be allowed to speak and think as they choose so long as they don't blow things up.
Still this is the danger of organized belief

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Google "Addicted to Hate" for a better understanding of who Fred Phelps is and why Phelps is the way he is. His hate truly is an addiction, and unfortunately it was contageous and has spread throughout his family. I pity the children in that family, especially.

Why is it that people hate Fred Phelps because he was close to God? Who does that remind you of?

These wonderful people picketed my Baptist Chruch in North Carolina over a decision that involved the city of Durham and education. Their insane. This group makes all Baptists look like kooks. It would be nice if the media would make some helpful distinctions and seperate these mutants from the norm. Or do you not realze that these people are the exception not the rule? How many articals do we need about them? Let their memory die in obscurity and stop giving them space and airtime! Im sure I could find a few mentally imbalenced secular humanists but that doesn't mean we need to hear about them every day.

Well, every circus has to have it's clown troop. My grandfather once told me that the only problem with foot washing baptists is they don't hold their heads underwater long enough. Looking at that picture, two things jump out at me.
That old man gets smarter and funnier the longer he's dead.
Some people will do absolutely anything for a little attention.
They don't really mean any harm, they are just scratching an itch.

I've been watching this story for quite some time. All I have to say is that these people are really ignorant. I'm not sure what they put in the holy water but the EPA should launch an investigation.

Somebody said this below but I totally agree with the remark. Many of these alternative churches are nothing more than a christian version of the followers of radical islam in the middle east. Both sides are led by crazy people, who prey on the poor, the weak, and the ignorant, in order to gain notoriety and fortune. How sad for somebody to twist the teachings of faith for ones own purposes. How petty.

Ever since seeing a documentary on these people earlier this week, titled "The Most Hated Family in America," I have been trying to figure out how hate can be the work of God, and how the members can laugh openly at the outside world who is going to "hell." As I watched this disturbing documentary, I saw young children carrying signs that said "God hates fags." When the children were asked what this means they had absolutely no idea. It was easy to see that these children didn't stand a chance, and that hate was going to be a burden they would carry for the rest of their lives. Seeing these people made me question my deepest beliefs of free speach and religious tolerance. My conclusion is that this isn't a religion, and ultimately has nothing to do with God. It has to do with fear and hate-mongering. If you want to hate America, fine: move and see how much you like totalitarianism or communism. If you are homophobic, fine: keep it to yourself. ( I don't actually think these things are fine, but we do have the freedom to think this way.) However, at the end of the day these people are just cowards, with nothing to hold onto except that they are among those with the worst character and a skewed view of the world that they have to fight so hard for because it is a losing battle. Cult indoctrination is hard to overcome, but it can be done. People just need to stop confusing God with everything that is UnGodly in the world.

I have to say that when a church (or a group of people professing to be a church) condems and spews profanities as the woodboro group does can not be a Bible Following Group ... anyone remeber trhe stoning or attempt by the Priests of the prostitute? Jesus said "anyone without sin cast the first stone" then proceeded to write down what each one of the priests were guilty of in the sand. There is another Verse in the Bible Judge not that ye may be judged to the same standard that you judge. God is about respecting others no matter their beliefs and showing compassion. Protesting at funerals shows neither one of those. I wonder what will happen if they decide to actually come to Omaha and protest the victims from the Westroads Mall Shooting.

The kook who caused the lady in TX to cut her babies arms off is still at it.

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1505482&vw=g&b=0&pos=1&p=doyle+davidson&fr=my-vert-vid-top

What's truly sad is this generation of "believers" is brainwashing their young with their radical agenda, just as Phelps did to them. It will never end if this practice continues.

"As a REAL Christian, I would love to crack a couple of these people upside the head with a baseball bat. They are the reason people like me get a bad rep without anyone even knowing me."

Not the only reason, I'm sure. I heard Jesus was good with a baseball bat and often suggested that 'upside the head' was a good place to use it. Jesus was very clear about public prayer...he didn't like it and thought those that did it were show offs and phoneys. Something about going into the closet to pray. If you really know your Bible you'll find it.

Ok, if the courts find the Missouri law as unconstitutional then how about each time these inbreeders protest they be slapped with a disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct charge instead?

Soooooo bored with these losers.

However, witnessing the growth of Christian Mega Churches teaching children to reject science and logic, I am becoming more convinced that we are all doomed after all.

From that logic, the Phelps' have a point.Their skewed messages may have a sliver of validity (not the stuff about IED's and our kick-ass soldiers).

But then, I'm not opposed to seeing them all retaliated upon by those they offend with their venom and picketing funerals. Hit them back: legally, emotionally, physically (if need be)...

Muslim fanaticism and Christian stupidity... Religions isn't so much the opiate of the masses, it's the encouragement for ingnorant to exist.

If there is a god, please smite these freaks from the earth and give the rest of the educated world a fresh start.

Incest breeds stupidity. Sam is a bastard child of Shirley's. She had him out of wedlock. Her daddy Fred Phelps is actually his daddy. All of them are inbreed, and they abuse their children in the name of God. Someday, they will get their's right in the back of the head.

I was going to post a comment saying I hope there's more coverage of these people, because they're so kooky and bizarre. But then I read the comment about these kids who are growing up like this, and it made me think. Living in a place where people are most intolerant of intolerance itself, is a gift I would never return.

I also wanted to remind everyone that Shirley Phelps was "loose" in college. She was "easy" and everyone knew it. When she got pregnant with Sam, her father almost caused her to abort. The beating was real bad. When they realized she was having her father's baby, she hid Sam until he was old enough to defend himself aganst Fred's
homosexual advances. To this day, Sam is suffering mental stability.

If the God that the Westboro Baptist Church members worship is in charge of Heaven. I do not want anything to do with it!

I sent them an email this morning saying I wanted to join them and to check out my website and then I linked them over to goatse.

Everyone needs to prank call them. Don't threaten them, just joke them real bad and argue with them.