You know how they say that people who hate something a lot secretly love it or they secretly hate that same thing in themselves? Hence the title of this post...
My co-worker had me look this guy up today because he thought this guy was hilarious. Hilarious as in, so ignorantly serious about his hatred, that it is comical. This recommendation to look-up Fred Phelps was the result of a conversation my co-worker and I had about church and spirituality. Come to find out, ole' Freddie Boy is quite the allegedly-Baptist-BIGOT! He particularly hates homosexuals (and Swedish people for some reason or another which is quite weird and random it seems). He also sympathizes with Fidel Castro and lauded Sadamm Hussein. Not to mention he's the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church which is classified as a "hate group". Fred and his followers like to picket military funerals and gay pride gatherings using God's anger as his reason for his hatred. Evidently, this guy has missed a few sermons and/or bible studies in his day.
His level of hatred is at once saddening, angering, and (quite) comical. For more on the ignorance and hatred that is Mr. Phelps, check out the first few paragraphs of his Wikipedia bio. It's some classically sad stuff. He sounds like the type of character you expect to have seen Jim Carrey portray on "In Living Color". He also reminds me of the black, blind, KKK member on the Dave Chappelle Show. This has gotta be some Branch Davidian type stuff, I'm tellin' you!
Needless to say, Mr. Phelps is a shining example of freedom of speech gone awry and used for evil. God Bless America!
1 comment:
yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh boyyyyyyyyyyy
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