Comments on: Irreverent Podcast: Westboro Baptist Church http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275 God, Life, and Culture Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:53:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Response to Hate | David Miller http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275&cpage=1#comment-903 Response to Hate | David Miller Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:52:26 +0000 http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275#comment-903 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: David Miller http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275&cpage=1#comment-271 David Miller Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:25:27 +0000 http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275#comment-271 I think they do dude. Sad but true. I think they do dude. Sad but true.

]]> By: Yoshua elkins http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275&cpage=1#comment-270 Yoshua elkins Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:39:40 +0000 http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275#comment-270 Um do they really want people to take them seriously. Have you seen there logo. I mean they actually spent time and money to organize this website and add a logo like that. Um do they really want people to take them seriously. Have you seen there logo. I mean they actually spent time and money to organize this website and add a logo like that.

]]> By: David Miller http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275&cpage=1#comment-257 David Miller Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:54:30 +0000 http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275#comment-257 So well said "forgettable in the sense that Westboro’s message was never spoken about once the hype faded away." I refer to them as the shock jocks of christianity. They just want to raise eyebrows and their message gets lost in their tactics. They are not known for Jesus but their hate. So well said “forgettable in the sense that Westboro’s message was never spoken about once the hype faded away.”
I refer to them as the shock jocks of christianity. They just want to raise eyebrows and their message gets lost in their tactics. They are not known for Jesus but their hate.

]]> By: Jake Holmberg http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275&cpage=1#comment-256 Jake Holmberg Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:20:25 +0000 http://www.davidmillerblog.com/?p=1275#comment-256 I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast just yet, but I do remember when these guys came to my high school over in Tampa. Our very conservative school had a little tiff about allowing a Gay-Straight Alliance club in school. Parents didn’t want their children in a school that allowed something like that and the media made a story out of it. I guess Westboro caught wind of it and made the trip out to see us. I remember driving up to school and seeing them across the street all yelling “GOD HATES NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOL!” To tell you the truth it was pretty awesome, a real entertaining change in the typical school day of algebra and American history. What stands out to me the most though, is how forgettable this day was. Not forgettable in the sense that I’ll never remember the protest that physically happened, or the helicopter that flew over our school; but forgettable in the sense that Westboro’s message was never spoken about once the hype faded away. Somehow certain things have a way of sticking in our memory, and perhaps this is just me, but I tend to cling to the memories that are edifying, that are hopeful, that are true. What a sad cause to give your life to. In Acts the high priests of the Jewish people decided to allow this Jesus movement to continue and not oppose it because if it was not of God, it would fade out and be forgotten. But if God did have a hand in this movement there would be no way of stopping it. I have forgotten about these protestors at Newsome High School, and as soon as the hype in the community fades, Orlando will forget about them too. The only thing I pray is that we become strong enough to counteract this “Christian” image with a powerful love that can only be given by God Himself. For those people who linger on these hateful words, and believe that God hates them, I hope that we are sent to their doorstep to show them God’s love with the same tenacity of these hate-mongers. "But God will not have his work made manifest by cowards" -Ralph Waldo Emerson I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast just yet, but I do remember when these guys came to my high school over in Tampa. Our very conservative school had a little tiff about allowing a Gay-Straight Alliance club in school. Parents didn’t want their children in a school that allowed something like that and the media made a story out of it. I guess Westboro caught wind of it and made the trip out to see us.
I remember driving up to school and seeing them across the street all yelling “GOD HATES NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOL!” To tell you the truth it was pretty awesome, a real entertaining change in the typical school day of algebra and American history.
What stands out to me the most though, is how forgettable this day was. Not forgettable in the sense that I’ll never remember the protest that physically happened, or the helicopter that flew over our school; but forgettable in the sense that Westboro’s message was never spoken about once the hype faded away. Somehow certain things have a way of sticking in our memory, and perhaps this is just me, but I tend to cling to the memories that are edifying, that are hopeful, that are true. What a sad cause to give your life to.
In Acts the high priests of the Jewish people decided to allow this Jesus movement to continue and not oppose it because if it was not of God, it would fade out and be forgotten. But if God did have a hand in this movement there would be no way of stopping it. I have forgotten about these protestors at Newsome High School, and as soon as the hype in the community fades, Orlando will forget about them too. The only thing I pray is that we become strong enough to counteract this “Christian” image with a powerful love that can only be given by God Himself. For those people who linger on these hateful words, and believe that God hates them, I hope that we are sent to their doorstep to show them God’s love with the same tenacity of these hate-mongers.

“But God will not have his work made manifest by cowards” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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