My God Told Me He Hates You

I'm sure many of you have already heard of the Westboro Baptist Church, of their protests at soldiers' funerals and hate-filled diatribes against those of the homosexual persuasion; I'm sure you've seen the faces of Fred Phelps Sr. and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper plastered all over the internet with various derisive comments attached. In this post, however, I'm not quite so concerned with their extreme hatred as I am with their extreme arrogance.

Of course, one must be arrogant to presume that one is more important or much better than another person simply because that other person is homosexual and/or believes differently. How, though, can you become so arrogant as to believe that you and only you and your church speak for the "Most High God" and "Father of humans"? Is this not a textbook definition of narcissism, or "inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity" (dictionary.com)? Is this sort of arrogance not the same vanity that Fred Phelps accuses everyone who does not attend his church of having?

Just so you know that I'm not pulling this idea of pompous self-importance out of thin air, let me quote something from the WBC's home page at godhatesfags.com: "Since 1955, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has taken forth the precious from the vile, and is therefore as the mouth of God (Jer. 15:19)." (italics added).

I'd like to point out what Jeremiah 15:19 says in the KJV Bible: "Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them." Oddly enough, in this verse, the Christian God is speaking specifically to Jeremiah against Jerusalem and her people, not to the yet-unborn Fred Phelps and his clan.

My point is this: when one person (or one group) claims to be the only true mouthpiece for the creator of the entire universe, one should be extremely wary and cautious. The arrogance found in the WBC's beliefs are blatant and obvious for all to see, but we all need to take care that we don't fall into a similar, more subtle trap. One person cannot hold all the answers; we cannot separate ourselves from others merely because we fear learning and changing our beliefs.

Pastor Fred, here's your clue.

The World According To...

Here is an interesting, anti-woman blog that I cannot help but continue to stumble over: http://bobstruth.blogspot.com Read it if you wish, but for the open-minded and tolerant of my readers, I would like to warn you that this blog is full of unadulterated, misogynistic (and often misandronistic) crap.

The author of this entertaining blog, I'm afraid, often appears to be a petulant child with just enough fact to his rants to make him seem as if he knows what he's talking about. Narcissism abounds on his blog, especially when he talks about himself.

I do agree with many of his points; as the sub-title of his blog states, "You can't make wrong into right by doing wrong more effectively. It's time for real MEN to stand up and take back our families, our society, and our self respect. It is not a crime to be born a man. It is not a crime to act manly." I believe that society too often favors one group over another, constantly switching between favoring men and favoring women, favoring blacks and favoring whites, favoring natives and favoring immigrants.

It's not a crime to exemplify the societal stereotype of "manliness", nor should it ever be. Everyone has the law-given rights to be whomever and whatever they wish to be. Unfortunately, this author seems to want to take those rights away from the female gender.

In many ways, he also wants to take these rights away from his own gender. In his eyes, it seems, the only "true" man is the man who does whatever he wants to, whenever he wants to, and ignores others' rights in the pursuit of his own happiness. The faults this author often finds with women are the very faults he believes men should display proudly, and to h*** with any man who does not dominate every female in sight.

I cannot find anything honorable about a hypocrite's ideas; I agree with many of your points, sir, but your twists on them are disgusting.

Introduction

This blog, I hope, will be devoted to showing the truth behind Lies- those wiggly, squirming facts of life so often disguised as Truth.

The only links that will be added to this blog are links to blogs, websites, and/or articles related to this great hunt; hopefully, I will be able to help you sort out the bulls*** from the facts. I will offer these items of interest to you in their original forms with complete links, only adding my own thoughts and observances for you to read, if you so choose.

I hope you find this blog helpful or, at the very least, an entertaining display of the sheer stupidity our world has produced.