Another Documentary: America's Most Hated Family

WARNING: The following contains foul language and very bizarre thinking. May also cause outrage.


I really don't want to give these people any more exposure than they’ve already had, but since this blog is all about lunacy and things that I find just plain nuts, I can’t resist.

About 2 years ago the BBC did a really, um, interesting documentary on a religious cult that's become America's most hated family - at least that's the title of it.

They're known for protesting the funerals of AIDS victims, murdered Amish children, and soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to name a few, by holding signs and screaming, “Soldiers are fags,” “God hates fags/soldiers/Muslims/Jews,” and “Thank God for dead soldiers." And they're still at it today.

They also call themselves Christian. No, sorry, the only true Christians.

The mother, Shirley Phelps-Roper (crazy lady extraordinaire), even has the smallest of her 11 children saying those things and waving signs...and they don’t even know what they mean! Obviously Crazy Lady doesn’t even know what she’s talking about. (She’s crazy after all). There's definitely some serious brainwashing going on there.

Their entire belief system, or whatever you want to call it, is just another case of I’m right and you’re wrong, with absolutely no intelligent (or even slightly human)things being said – aside from Louis Theroux piping in with Reason and all the passersby flipping them off.


This is just part 1/8, but I promise there isn’t a dull moment.




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Questions for Pro-Lifers

The other day when I went grocery shopping I spotted some pro-life protesters across the street waving “Stop abortion” and “This hospital kills babies in the womb” signs.(Image: NewsPick.) I had one immediate response when I saw this: What exactly do they mean by “Stop Abortion”?


But the questions didn’t stop there.

Does stopping abortions mean all abortions, no matter the reason or circumstance?
Does this also include rape victims?
What about 13-year-olds who, at 13, simply aren’t ready to become parents?
Are the people protesting for abortion bans the same people who oppose safe-sex education in schools? (Because if so, that would be messed up.)
Isn’t the world already over-populated?
What about the recession? What if the would-be parents can't afford a child?
Aren’t couples who have abortions heartsick by their decision? Why should it be made any harder for them?
What if the mother has health problems and the pregnancy threatens her life?
What about violent pro-life protesters? Doesn’t violence negate the pro-life cause?
Would banning abortions cause private “clinics” to be set up?
Why not let people make their own decisions?
Would denying people that option deny them certain freedoms?
Why aren’t people more sexually responsible?
Would banning abortion result in less unwanted pregnancies?
Will this debate ever end?

So many questions. Please share your thoughts.

Check out The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and Stats Canada for abortion statistics.

Holy Crap! (Bishop denies Holocaust)

Apparently a bishop – you know, someone who, by definition and requirement, believes in God – denies the Holocaust and ignores the murder of 11,000,000 people because there’s “no proof” that it occurred.


Um, is that what you call hypocrisy, or just plain nuts?

A letter written to the Belfast Telegraph caught my attention because it asked those questions (but not in those words, exactly), and it got me searching for more.

I found another article, this one from BBC News, which reported that Bishop Richard Williamson claims the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is authentic. This anti-Semitic piece of garbage supposedly reveals a secret plot for Jewish world domination, and has been proven a hoax numerous times since the early 20th century – hence the garbage comment.

To attempt to be fair, I should refer to this video in which Williamson explains that people were never killed in gas chambers. He doesn’t specifically deny that Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps, but he says it was more likely 200,000 to 300,000.



Even more ridiculous is Williamson’s attempt to exonerate himself from his clearly anti-Semitic beliefs: "My definition of anti-Semitism is to be against every single Jew purely because he's a Jew. That's not at all my case. I once had a Jewish rabbi come and speak to seminarians. Does that sound to you like anti-Semitism?"

Well, no, but the part about the Holocaust never happening, and supporting the authenticity of a piece of hate literature that’s been used to justify the oppression and genocide of Jews, is.

Plus, it kind of reminds me of that part in movies when a white person is accused of being racist and all they can come up with is, “My grandma’s black. How can I be racist?”

But doing one semi-tolerant thing doesn’t make up for saying, "Jews made up the Holocaust, Protestants get their orders from the devil and the Vatican has sold its soul to liberalism,” or, “A woman can do a good imitation of handling ideas, but then she will not be thinking properly as a woman.”

So if denying the Holocaust isn’t anti-Semitic, does that mean calling Protestants devil-worshipers isn’t hateful? Or that claiming women are inherently stupid isn’t sexist?

Is this guy Rush Limbaugh’s best friend or something?

For the sake of being rhetorical, even IF (IF) the Holocaust didn't happen the way we're told it happened, according to Williamson at least 200,000 people were imprisoned and killed in Nazi concentration camps. Whether gas chambers were used or not, it doesn't make what happened any less awful.

The Vatican Wants You...to believe in aliens

According to the Vatican’s chief astronomer – yeah, apparently they have astronomers – you can believe in God and the existence of aliens, and still go to Heaven.

An interview published in the Vatican newspaper – they have a newspaper too? – not only said that it’s possible that aliens could exist, but even suggested that not believing in aliens would question your faith in God. Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes claimed that doubting the existence of other intelligent life-forms would “place limits” on God’s creative powers.

Wow! How long did it take ‘em to think of that one? With yet another if-you-don’t-believe-this-you’re-not-going-to-Heaven argument, they’ve done it! They’ve appeased all the UFO “nuts”/alien believers/Roswell conspiracy theorists and welcomed them with open arms...so long as they understand that ET’s aren’t superior beings. Well, at least not to God.

When asked what alien life would mean for human redemption Funes said, “God was made man in Jesus to save us. In this way, if other intelligent beings existed, it is not said that they would have need of redemption. They could remain in full friendship with their Creator."

So, aliens aren’t superior to God, but they are superior to us. We’re the lost sheep, according to Funes.

Now, what this article is really saying is that we need the church to guide us and keep us in His good books, aliens or no aliens, as it has always been. But the worst part of the article? The cheesy title: “The Extraterrestrial is my Brother.”

But hey, who am I to judge? Catholicism’s just trying to keep up with the times – especially since now it also has Scientology to compete with.


Click here to read the full interview.

Okay, so it’s not exactly “breaking” news, but it was news to me.