Lord Jesus himself declared that “By their fruits you shall know them.”

The message of hate displayed and sermonized by the Westboro Baptist Church shows the truth of their Christian claims. 

This group is nothing more than a band of cultists built around an extremist with a hide-bound, narrow-minded, narrow-focused, narrow-defined view of the world in which all must conform to the views of their leader 100% or events happen as ‘punishment’ for not conforming to their view.

All cults and radical and extremists movements, secular or religious, generally follow the same path at its core. 

Remember that with all of Christianity, individual and groups, it is “By their fruits you shall know them.” See what they say, do and become, see if their faith is demonstrated by Godly works in the world and in their lives.

Hate in and of itself becomes a poison which is inevitably fatal in the end, destroying self and destroying much of value around the individual. Hate only breeds more hate in the end…

Westboro Baptist Church is as Christian as the so called German Christian movement in Nazi Germany. Christ will never let these people get away with the hate and lies the spew about him. God does not want a blood of sinners to run free in the streets. No he wants to save their soul he wants all men women and children to be saved. These brainwashed people God is hate not Jesus. They hate the very thing Jesus preached and lived his life.
John 8: 1-11 then each went to his home. But Jesus went to the Mont of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he set down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law of Moses commanded us to stone the woman. Now what do you say?” they were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “ If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
“no one, sir” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

They remind of so called German Christian movement in Nazi Germany. That should drive people to protest them at their so called church.

I always share a certain musing with anyone who criticizes my faith in God and my full conviction that Jesus Christ suffered and died on the cross to save me from my sins.  This musing is as follows:  If you want to know the true meaning of being a Christian, don’t imitate the actions of Christians, imitate the actions of Jesus Christ himself.  He didn’t call his doctrine “Christianity.”  He referred to it as “The Way.”  He stated in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.”  
The one thing that believers and unbelievers have in common, from their birth until their death, is that they are all sinners.  The ONLY exception is Jesus Christ.  He never sinned.  His life is the only human example of  ”deserved” salvation.  We don’t go to heaven of our own accord.  We enter eternal life on Christ’s accord.  ”The Way” is the only path to salvation.  All other paths are of no significance in the eyes of the Father, the supreme ruler and judge.  
My point in all of this is that the Westboro Baptist Church is a terrible reflection of Christ’s love for us.  They are not reflective of the way hardly any Christians live their lives, but none other than Christ deserves the full credit for human salvation.  I revel in the fact that I need forgiveness.  I revel because it is promised to me and I have faith in this promise.  My faith is a blessing.

Thanks for the reminder of that movement, somehow I had forgotten about it.

I have often wondered in that passage what Jesus wrote upon the ground?

It may be that he wrote for the accusers to see first hand he was aware of their own deeds and involvement in seeking to condemn him and the woman. 

Louis Theroux did a great documentary on the westboro baptist church for bbc,
i think its up on youtube

My pastor believes that is the case and so do I. Those law makers where so high on their righteousness that Jesus writing their sins into the sand was most likely the only way they would back down.

It is amazing how well the Bible did they did better than I could ever dream of God has his hand on this series. I hope you get everything sorted out with your cable before next Sunday. What I found ironic tho was the show afterwards. It like God set it up in such away as to say this is what a world with me looks like then after here is the world without me. You got to love his timing.

What is the name? 

There’s not much difference between this church and the various televangelists who use their bible as their guiding light. Both use scare tactics and intimidation of their followers. Man was created with a free will to choose his destiny. Whether he takes the right road or the wrong road is really up to himself.

louis theroux: the most hated family in america

“Expand”There’s not much difference between this church and the various televangelists”  Will you please name a few of the televangelists you think are so much like the WBC?  I can’t think of a single televangellist who even remotely resembles the beliefs and deeds of the WBC.  Your judgemental condemnation of all televangelists is a disgusting unfounded indictment of all of them and such a generalization on your part is very unfair and irresponsible.  So if you can’t name several that are not much different from WBC  how about just naming one that you can cite where no difference between them and WBC?  Cite any simular deeds and words coming from any tevelangelists that are a lot like WBC.  Put up or shut up.

The question arrises.  What God does the Westminister church worship. Christ spoke to his desciples saying, “by this shall they know you, that you love one another.”  When a woman was taken in the very act of adultry, she was brought to Jesus to be judged.  Jesus heard their case then made a profound statement, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”  A remarkable pastorage this Westminster Baptist group.  I have yet to meet anyone, Baptist or otherwise, who did not affirm that he or she was a sinner before Christ.

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I will take
the bait and be the opposition. We live in a time when the worst possible thing
is to be intolerant. I remind everyone that Jesus taught us not to judge ‘persons’:
“do not judge so that you may not be judged.” (Mt 7:1). But, He did
teach us to judge ‘actions’: “And why do you not, even among yourselves,
judge what is just?” (Lk 12:57) If a person robs
a bank, we should not judge his soul, saying, ‘That person is evil.” But
we can and should judge the action saying: “That is an evil act.”

God loves
all people; so should we. God does not love sin and sees some things as an
abomination; so should we. We don’t get to redefine what qualifies as a sin is
and what is not.  We do not get to tell
the Lord we were just doing what the PC police said to do.

God calls ‘all’
single people to be celibate.  That
happens to include people with same sex attraction.  Therefore, we are would not be holding anyone
to a higher standard, because all people are called to abstain from sex outside
of marriage. In reality, we are not missing the boat where homosexuality is
concerned because we are missing the boat for sex outside of marriage as God
defined it between a man and a woman. 

It is time
we wise up as a nation. Homosexuality is not unlike drug addiction, alcoholism,
or excessive gambling. We can love, hire, and befriend people who struggle with
these issues, but we don’t celebrate these behaviors for obvious reason.  All of them unravel the moral fiber of our society
and to say otherwise is self-destructive.

Can we stop
all of it, no? Do we need to judge these acts as taking a serious toll on our
country? Yes because to do otherwise is like sticking our head in the
sand.  The homosexual lobby is very
aggressive and will not back down until they have the sodomy taught in schools.
Fyi: It is already being taught in some places. How confusing must that me to
young people coming into their own! Are they to think that a sexual feeling of
any type suggests homosexuality?

We are not
compelled to announce our preferences in any other aspect of our lives.  Take religion for example.  We might discuss Christianity, but we avoid
stating a denomination in order not to offend others and we contend there is
more we agree on more than we disagree.  Isn’t it sufficient to agree that sexuality is
from God and is a great gift for those lucky enough to have a partner and stop there?  Apparently respect is not the issue because some
insist we must delve deeper.  What about
the medical community.  They are silent,
but if you beg the question, honest professionals would tell you, the
homosexual community has far more health problems than others. If we are going
to regulate the size of soda a person can drink, why would caring people not be
concerned with a lifestyle that is known to have a marked increase in suicide, chronic
major depression, and a plethora of health problems associated with alternate
sexual practices?  The answer is, because
the screen is being controlled by the PC police, who may be acting in good
faith, but people, this is not love when you let someone self destruct.    

Did this
church cross some lines, probably?  Without
a doubt our culture cannot strike a happy medium and does not know how to
address the issue without being rude, abusive, or offensive.  Clearly we have to do better. But we have to
start by calling a spade a spade

Bert,
I can see you are confident in your salvation. It is nice to see. This is Satan’s last stand and I know God is in charge of all. In that I am content and look forward to seeing Christ when He is ready to call me home. As goes the believer so goes the nation. Every day I wake up is a day to thank God.

I feel sorry for this family,wasting all their valuable life to hate and hurt folks.So sad.

I have a sordid past.  I’ve done some bad things in my life.  I’ve been involved in drugs and I’ve done violent things to some people.  But there was one incident in my life (believe me you don’t want to hear about it) where I felt like I was on my own road to Damascus so to speak.  It was the fear in someone’s eyes when they looked at me and it made me weaker than I’d ever felt in my whole life.  I had an epiphany and felt something that I had never felt before.  I saw the light and I won’t ever look back.  I think God meant for me to do the bad things in life to reveal himself to me.  The faith that I have now will never go away.  I can FEEL God’s presence and I KNOW that he’s there.  

Thank you I going to have to check that out when I have time.

Lauren Drain did right by getting out of that cult and that’s exactly what it is NOT A CHURCH.And I hope she does spend time with Glenn and tear this church down.Because God Himself will eventually.

I am glad that Ms. Drain has finally severed all ties with the Westboro Baptist “Church”, even if it was not the way she had expected. That particular cult reminds me, rather frighteningly, of the Peoples’ Temple and Charles Manson.

I disagree with you on one point, Bert. I don’t think God ever intends for people to do bad things, but He turns bad situations around and uses them for His glory. I thank God that He came to you where you were and used your circumstances to turn you to to Himself and to show you your need for Christ. God bless you, my brother in the Kingdom.

The interesting thing about this story is that in Leviticus, God told the Israelites that if someone was caught in adultery, both the man and the woman were to be put to death. So where was the man this woman was supposedly committing adultery with?

 Thanks for that.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so well put.

I’ve been told that I have a way with words.  I attribute that ability to God above. What am I?  Nothing.  He saved a wretch like me.