QUOTE(Charlie Mike @ Aug 26 2006, 03:15 AM) [snapback]1321563[/snapback]
To the contrary. Her campaign espouses no such thing, nor do the 98% population of family members that comprise her fathers church.
In truth, they do not know what love is. They campaign to promote a god ideal that hates, first and foremost. They dedicate themselves to worship that being they imagine compells their actions, as they are told is to be translated through the bibles scriptures by Fred P. , and as such aspire to the glory they believe awaits their savage terrorism exacted against the dead
and the living. (They protest funerals across the country. Gaining funds to continue this road trip , by inciting the local communities to violence so they can sue for damages. )
And while these parishioners brandish signs in the face of mourners, praising god for killing us, they set an excellent example in their own right. They show those of us that can look beyond the top of the "God hates fags" signs that are raised aloft and usually cover their faces, how easily words are translated to affect destruction upon a people.
Firstly it destroys the one that harbours the words inside themselves. In that mind that stores all the data for what it means to live in this world, and not alone. And given they are so outnumbered, (at least 6.5
billion souls), they are compelled to hold to their idea's even more, as they go forth and live their life, judging everyone they see by that criteria of hate. That demon of many tongues, that speaks to them continuously of fear and assault. And how they survive themselves in the midst of this mass global community is to create a god in their own image. One that tells them they are special above all others, and that all else is worthy of a poster to damn them in print!
So the Phelps crew purchases markers and a ton of former tree's, and draw and write of themselves, for all to read, as they later hold those posters aloft and in so doing, in the midst of their screams and jeers toward anyone that will listen, stand as an example of what it looks like when someone turns on themselves and call's it god. How it sounds when that soul screams it's pain of separation from all others, because it doesn't think it's worthy of love. How a word, creates a spirit, that destroys flesh voluntarily.
And that, for all it may piss us off as we witness they're attending out town, to broadcast their separatist disease, (They were here just a few months ago.) shows us that while god is unseen and presumed to exist within all things, the spirit inside of us is what creates this world, by our own hand, through the translation.
So while the Phelps may sicken the decent among us, what drives them forward is that same energy that causes people to blow themselves up in a crowd. To execute doctors, drown babies, murder wives, invade countries, burn books, desecrate temples, paint swastikas on holy shrines, sledgehammer gravestones, baseball bat gays, etc...
Which is to say, the Phelps do serve a purpose. They lend an example of what it means to hate oneself and see it as god. They scream to us; don't allow yourself to become like this. And we are, when we see someone different than us and call them a name for being so. When we say their style of worship , that which satisfies and brings peace to a personal heart, is wrong in our eyes. As we assault with copy & paste, in that effort to change someones mind about the invisible that none of us truly know in any other way, save to believe.
Fred Phelps and his hateful spawn are an example of what not to allow ourselves to become.
And just as an aside, Charlie Mike:
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"Faith is not needed where certainty exists."
Nifty siggy. Given the definition of "certainty", I imagine death, that one and certain common destiny for us all, holds no surprises huh!?