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Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
Reading their wikipedia description, I have noticed following things:
A. They have everything an American patriot loves.
B. That their POV is often contradictory. For example, they claim that Saddam's Iraq was a free place and that Saddam was a great man, yet in other claims they say that the Muslim religion is filthy.
What you think about this theory?
Praeses
Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
Unlikely, in the extreme.
Petit Burgués
Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
Their goal is to spread Christian fundamentalism, a perversed form of Christ's teachings and above everything hate for those who are different.
Calling them Freedom of Speech defenders is as ridiculous as comparing Neonazis with Civil Rights activists.
Last edited by Claudius Gothicus; January 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM.
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Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
Actually they hate every other religious group and "fags". That's it.Originally Posted by Claudius Gothicus
Azog; Yeh but he was a muslim.
Last edited by Nikitn; January 13, 2011 at 01:19 PM.
Petit Burgués
Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
They hate:
1) Secular thinking
2) Other religions
3) Other cultures
4) People with different Sexual tendencies
I'm pretty sure that they will eventually hate blacks and Hispanics too. They hate everything that's not THEIR OWN TYPE OF WASPNESS.
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Civitate
Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
Hating the muslim religion doesn't neccesarily equal hating muslims (Although you are right that for the WBC that is probably the case)
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Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
The weird thing is that I've heard people say that 1-1 Phelps is actually a nice seeming normal guy.
It seems closer to trolling than trying to accomplish anything at all.
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Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
^this
I bet that if these people ever had even an ounce of power they would forbid any form of free speech that was not their own
Civitate
Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
It seems to be their objective is simply to piss people off...
On your Iraq and Islam comment though, I would like to point out that Saddam's Iraq was supposed to have a secular leadership.
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Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
No.
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Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
Possibly. I mean perhaps Hitler didn't really believe any of his policies, he just wanted immortality, which he definitely gained. He's the most infamous person who ever lived.
Ducenarius
Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
Much more likely (but still incredible unlikely) is that they are trying to trigger a respons that would involve a clamp down on freedom of speech.
Use your imagination
Re: Is Westboro baptist Church's real goal to protect freedom of speech?
They're attention-whoring a-holes.
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