While on Facebook today, I noticed one of my friend's status that said that the Westboro Church is going to be protesting HERE, in Sioux Falls, this weekend.
If you don't know who these people are, they are a "church" which consists of mainly members of one family that is horribly offensive. They disgust me so much, that I'm not posting a picture, I already can't stand knowing the pictures I've seen thusfar.
I'd like to point out -- please don't visit this group's website (I'm not posting the link, but Google can take you almost anywhere). The more traffic they receive, the more money they make, at the expense of the curiosity of those who do not agree with them.
Basically, if you are American, these people hate you. (Canadians, you are not exempt from this, they hate you too.) They hate you because the the government itself does not actively persecute gays and lesbians, and therefore, all Americans are going to hell. In fact, they hate any country that gives basic rights to gays. (See Canada? They hate you too.) They believe that our country is being punished because of this, which is why we we were attacked on 9/11/01, why we're at war, and why so many soldiers come home in caskets. (My second military related post in two days... hmm). They have signs that rejoice those deaths and pray for more of them. And where do they hold up these signs? In front of other churches, and even more disturbingly, at military funerals of soldiers killed in combat.
But they're not coming to Sioux Falls for a funeral. They're coming here to protest at the Cathedral. There here to protest the CATHOLIC CHURCH. (Yes, one of the strictest sects of Christianity around. Really.) What's baffling to me about this is that they have also this extreme hatred toward Catholics and Jewish people alike (I'm not even going to start on the disgusting things they've said about the Holocaust). They specifically go after the Catholic church due to the string of scandals that erupted around the turn of the century. I can't think of anyone who isn't appalled by what happened there, point blank. But according to this cult, the mistakes of the few apply to everyone. In their eyes, ALL Catholics are going to hell, not because of their own actions, but because of the actions of others. Anyone whose been to at least one church sermon in their lifetime knows that this is NOT how Christianity works. You are responsible for your own sins, and not those of anyone else, just like no one else is responsible for the sins you commit-- thats all on you.
I'm going to get religious here. (well actually... this whole post has been and will be about religion. hah). When you claim yourself as a Christian, you claim yourself as a sinner who wants and needs the forgiveness and guidance of God. This cult treats everyone as the opposite - that to be a Christian, you must be sin free, and once you commit a sin, you are doomed and cannot be forgiven. It's EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE as what Christianity represents! The point is that you can go your whole life "living in the dark", but no matter how long you were there, when you choose to "live in the light" and genuinely ask for forgiveness in your heart, He forgives you, because he loves you. This cult lives by the belief that God hates you. That's probably the most offensive thing to me, how can these people claim that God does not love us, that his promises to us through the death and resurrection of Christ are now null and void, and consider themselves Christians? Their beliefs invalidate the core belief of the Christian faith - that Christ died for our sins for our salvation -- and that God allowed his only son to be sacrificed because of his love for us.
I think its clear by the fact that they are the antithesis of what Christianity is, and that they spew hatred and spread hurt and darkness through the world that they are the evil we have been warned about. But one thing that they will never succeed in is doing the devils work-- convincing the world that God no longer loves us. How they don't see just how absolutely blasphemous they are being is very, very sad.
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