Keith Allen Will Burn in Hell 1 of 5
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This is a documentary of an untraditional flavor made by Keith Allen on the Westboro Baptist Church. He goes to Topeka and acts like an idiot, but is able to reveal the "sinful" nature of the church's leadership and its members.
The leader, Shirley, does admit to having committed a specific sin, what Christians call one of the worst. I don't find this odd in the least. Since the revelation of child abuses conducted by Catholic priesthood and clergy of other faiths, I am sure many are now open to idea that anyone, as could have been reasonably concluded before these events, is capable of the worst inhumane acts. The revelation of Shirley's "youth" proves Westboro baptists are not unlike any of the people they accuse or condemn. This is the great hypocrisy of organized worshiping, to expect even the zealous to be perfect. I think one reason people take sides against them is because of their extreme lack of candor on this matter, though ironically the moderate who resists criticism is tacitly doing the same thing.
Atheists are capable of self-contradiction, but they thrive in correction. Contradiction, especially derived through evidence, is a great tool to discovering great truths, scientific or not. In the matter of "hypocrisy," I take issue with what Hitchens calls, "the essential principle of totalitarianism," made by "laws that are impossible to obey." The act of assigning commandments that are impossible to keep is immoral. It is common knowledge that the "strict" are fallible, yet God gave even them reason to fear judgment. If this is true of those who actually try to keep them with full intent, as the Westboro Baptists do, what does that mean for the holiday believers? It means that they will be met by atheists, agnostics, and whoremongers (among other faiths of course) in the Hell that waits them. Sound fair to you?
Aside from this issue of manifest hypocrisy: Christianity in general must answer for the crimes of this "extremism." Adherents must answer because their literature provides the iconography, diction, and lexicon of people such as these. Listen to them speak. With each claim they cite chapter and verse. Don't anyone tell me these are the rantings of a lost group taking the "metaphors" in the Bible too literally. Moderation in Christian thinking allows for statements like these because it has to. The one idea separating fanatic from moderate is apology, and I'll bet you know which type of believer I'm referring to.
The leader, Shirley, does admit to having committed a specific sin, what Christians call one of the worst. I don't find this odd in the least. Since the revelation of child abuses conducted by Catholic priesthood and clergy of other faiths, I am sure many are now open to idea that anyone, as could have been reasonably concluded before these events, is capable of the worst inhumane acts. The revelation of Shirley's "youth" proves Westboro baptists are not unlike any of the people they accuse or condemn. This is the great hypocrisy of organized worshiping, to expect even the zealous to be perfect. I think one reason people take sides against them is because of their extreme lack of candor on this matter, though ironically the moderate who resists criticism is tacitly doing the same thing.
Atheists are capable of self-contradiction, but they thrive in correction. Contradiction, especially derived through evidence, is a great tool to discovering great truths, scientific or not. In the matter of "hypocrisy," I take issue with what Hitchens calls, "the essential principle of totalitarianism," made by "laws that are impossible to obey." The act of assigning commandments that are impossible to keep is immoral. It is common knowledge that the "strict" are fallible, yet God gave even them reason to fear judgment. If this is true of those who actually try to keep them with full intent, as the Westboro Baptists do, what does that mean for the holiday believers? It means that they will be met by atheists, agnostics, and whoremongers (among other faiths of course) in the Hell that waits them. Sound fair to you?
Aside from this issue of manifest hypocrisy: Christianity in general must answer for the crimes of this "extremism." Adherents must answer because their literature provides the iconography, diction, and lexicon of people such as these. Listen to them speak. With each claim they cite chapter and verse. Don't anyone tell me these are the rantings of a lost group taking the "metaphors" in the Bible too literally. Moderation in Christian thinking allows for statements like these because it has to. The one idea separating fanatic from moderate is apology, and I'll bet you know which type of believer I'm referring to.
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