God Help Us All

As predictable as a hot shit after a meal of chili peppers, so are the actions of the Westboro Baptist "Church."

News comes today, just as we are learning the names of all the victims of the Aurora shooting, that the coven of hatred from Kansas is planning a roadtrip to Colorado, culminating in a "super picket" of the memorial service being planned for those who perished.

This is when I truly, fervently, passionately hope that there IS a heaven, and that there is a hell.  A hell so devishly designed that the "special place" in it - reserved for these inhuman placard carriers - cannot even begin to be conceived by the mind of mere man.

These are just some of the revolting Tweets from WBC:

@WBCFredJr - Only 500 miles to WBC Aurora picket. #GodCursesUForFagMarriage #WorseAndMoreOnTheWay #WBCToldU #GodisAmericasTerrorist #ObeyToday Too fun!

WBC gassing up vehicles for Colorado super-picket. #WorseOnTheWay #FearGodFools #GodCursesUForIdolatry #FaceOfGodsWrath #fagsrunmilitary

WBC heading to Colorado for Sunday memorial service. #GodAvengesHisPpl #GodCursesUForFagMarriage #GodIsNotMocked #GodIsYourEnemy yummy!

Their love of the word "fag" is legend.  That they deign to speak for the very One they warn us to fear and revere is hypocritically renowned.

They are horrific examples of the worst of human nature.  Of what happens when religion is used as a weapon, and then cowardly-ly used as a shield. Of what we become when we abdicate that which is right to that which is taught to us by someone in "authority," someone standing at a pulpit banging his fist, someone who speaks ignorance and hatred to stupidity, someone who is as far from the ideals of Jesus as is possible.

This is the distillation of hatred.  Raw, putrid, poisonous.  Willing to destroy all it touches, so convinced of its superiority, that it has it all figured out.

There are THOUSANDS of worshipped deities - gods - in recorded human history.  I find it laughable when anyone tries to claim theirs is the "right" one.  Maybe the right one for YOU.  But certainly not the only one, or the only right one.

And of those THOUSANDS of gods and goddesses?  I highly doubt any of them would sanction a super picket of a dead 6 year old girl whose only crime in this world was being in the wrong movie seat at the wrong time.

Regardless of which one you choose to follow, to believe - here is what matters:  12 innocent people are dead.  Dozens more wounded.  Westhorror Baptist Church's superpicket needs drowned out, trampled into the ground, so that all we can hear are these names:

Alex Sullivan: Was celebrating 27th birthday

John Larimer: 27-year-old in the U.S. Navy

Jessica Ghawi: Recently survived Toronto mall shooting, 24-years-old

Micayla Medek: 23-year old

Jon Blunk: 26-year-old killed shielding girlfriend, Jansen Young

Alex Teves: 24-year-old who recently earned master's degree

Alexander "AJ" Boik: 18-year-old recently graduated high school

Gordon Cowden: 51-year-old father of two

Rebecca Wingo: 32-year-old

Matt McQuinn: 27-year-old shot and killed while shielding his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler

Veronica Moser-Sullivan: Six-year-old whose mother Ashley Moser is in critical condition

Jesse Childress: 29-year-old staff sergeant with Buckley Air Force Base (his photo is currently unavailable)

Comments

[DeDe]

I have no words for these people...

[Cindy Seaburn]

WBC sheeple are lower than scum. In case they have forgotten to read their Bibles as of late, they might want to catch up on some of the stories involving Jesus - as Anna Quindlan put it, the original and biggest radical rabble-rouser. "Heal the sick, feed the poor." It doesn't say anything about the sick and poor lifestyles. I am so tired of so-called Bible-thumping Christians dragging down the rest of us who believe each and every individual has their own and private relationship and judgement with God if they so choose to have one.

[chicky]

these were human beings. they deserve more than this. they deserve our respect and they deserve to be honored. shame on anyone who profits either by publicity or monetarily from this horrific tragedy.

[audreyf]

I would so be there if I were closer, as none of these people did anything to deserve this. Why weren't their sanctimonious asses at Jerry Sandusky's trial every day? Or standing outside the jailhouses of convicted murderers? Or even at soup kitchens feeding the poor? Ugh!

[Callen]

I'm not a hyper-emotional person so I was surprised when reading this last night it brought tears to my eyes. All of those beautiful hopeful faces and lives cut short for no reason.

[Katy]

I totally agree with your coments about WBC, they are no better (in the scale of human beings) than the shooter. But as usual, they thrive on being the center of attention. They do this all the time, get decent people upset with their comments and threats to attend memorials or funerals, and then last minute change their plans. I wish the press/media would just stop printing anything about them - they are so not worth a second of my attention.

[Theresa from Virginia]

I too often wonder if God has a special place in Hell for these so-called "christians" (note lower case). I think in the Bible where it says to not use God's name in vain - this is what it means. What must God think about people like this? Sickening!

I agree with Katy that the media should never report on these people again - if they can't get the attention they seemingly crave, then maybe they'll shrivel up on the vine and prune themselves away!