Hi Sandy,
Originally posted by Sandman
Damn... and I searched for it too. Thanx Seagoon.
NP, thanks for posting it, I got very choked up at the end when the funeral procession is going down a road lined with 200 flags waving in the wind. Would that every soldier who died in battle got that kind of salute without having to endure the wicked ranting of Fred's family.
A friend of mine, Phil Johnson, who works with Dr. John MacArthur of "Grace to You" (
http://www.gty.org/) maintains a webpage of theology resources, he ranks Phelp's website at the very lowest mark
"Really, really bad theology" and has this statement and link to an expose on Phelps:
"Godhatesstudmuffins.com Here's a Topeka, Kansas, "Baptist" church that has managed to mangle the gospel so completely that hate, rather than love, is at the heart of the message they proclaim. They picket funerals of AIDS victims, carrying signs saying "No Tears for Queers." This "church" is actually a small cult comprised mostly of "Pastor" Fred Phelps's own offspring and their children. An eye-opening expose of the Phelps clan ("Addicted to Hate," by investigative reporter Jon Michael Bell)) is on line, Exhibit A in some court documents in a lawsuit involving a Topeka newspaper.
As a Calvinistic Baptist, I'm embarrassed by the Web presence of this "church." What you'll find here is a radically different gospel from the good news proclaimed in Scripture, so this is an apt candidate for the "really, really bad" category.
Personally, I've never met a fellow evangelical pastor who had anything contempt for Phelp's message, and pity for the man and his "church."
- SEAGOON
