I have spent my life worshipping idols. GASP! What did I just say? Okay. Take a deep breath. It's not what you think! All my life, I have looked at someone who is: older, wiser, prettier, wittier, more spiritual, more popular...you name it...I have looked at that "someone" and idolized them. Not in that, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" kind of idolatry. It was more like a, "I'll never be able to be as.....(wise, pretty, witty, spiritual, popular)...as he/she is. They are just too (wise, pretty, witty, spiritual, popular). I could never measure up to that!" You know the type, right? That person that never seems to run out of wise advice. The woman who never has a hair out of place, no matter how many children are clinging to her skirts (jeans?). The person who always has a funny line to lighten the mood. The one who seems to be friends with just everybody they meet. The hardest to deal with, though, is the person who always has the ...
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These people are protesting this man because he's a veteran?
Because he fought to free people from a wicked communist regime that would have squashed the likes of Fred Phelps and co. without even thinking about it?
Because he happened to live in Greensburg and was kiled by a tornado?
Because Greensburg, as everyone knows, is such a haven of abominable sin that God needed to wipe it out with a tornado (Not!) while leaving places like San Franciso and New York untouched?
I really don't see the point here.
If Fred Phelps believes an iota of Scripture then he should give some prayerful reflection to the fact that we will be judged with the judgment that we meted out to others. One wonders, then, what atrocities await his funeral, or the judgment immediately following.