Recently, Shanghaiist has been getting a whole load of clicks from a most unlikely source, GodHatesFags.com — official website of the loonies at the highly controversial, virulently homophobic, and dangerously extremist Westboro Baptist Church. Clicking over, we found that in addition to calling us “slant-eyed bastards” for an article we wrote about them a long time ago, the “church” has just released yet another press release (pictured here), thanking God for the “Great Killer Earthquake that He sent to kill thousands of stiffhearted Chinese rebels against God”. In addition, they pray for “many more earthquakes to kill many more thousands of impudent and ungrateful Chinese”.
Vile, vile words that could only have come from the pits of hell, and the devil himself. These guys know not who it is they are worshipping. Their words would all be very funny if their hatred were not so real.
Readers of this site will remember that not so long ago, Westboro had issued a similar release thanking God for “punishing” China with the worst winter storm of 50 years. In that statement, they also boldly claimed that they would come to picket the Beijing Olympics and preach to the world outside the Olympic stadium. Now we seriously hope they will be granted their visas, and that the PSB will arrest them upon arrival and lock them away in a place where there will be a great weeping and gnashing of teeth. Forever.
UPDATE: Michael Standaert of the Huffington Post has issued a challenge to Chinese hackers to shut down Westboro’s website.
Related links:
The Opposite End of China: Direct your fury at Topeka
Shanghaiist: Westboro Baptist Church to picket the Beijing Olympics against a “godless, filthy, sodomite China”
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
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I suspect these people have some diagnosable mental disturbance. Religion?
Normally I usually think with wackos – attention is what they’re looking for and we’re providing it to them. But I hope the Chinese hackers go ahead and not only shut down their site, but blow up their computers.
Next time I’m back in the US, I may drive by their place just so I can issue punches in the neck for them personally. Just vile vile people.
T – a bastard of the slant-eyed variety.
This church is in Kansas. The yeehaw state. Like they have a place to talk, don’t they still screw their cousins out there?
What kind of a human being could look at the images we have all seen and feel happy? They are small, hateful people that only say these things for their personal gain.
Which brings me to my reason for posting. Why perpetuate the morbid fascination with these people by broadcasting their message to a wider audience? I am not saying that Shanghaiist, or any other person or blog out there, does not have the right to comment on the Westboro Baptist Church, nor am I saying I think you have anything but contempt for these people.
I am just questioning the choice to introduce their message of indiscriminate hate to your readers? What is the value of any meaningful discussion that can come from reproducing their hate speech when compared to the hurt that can be caused by increasing the profile of these extremists?
Hey, responding to bigots by calling all Kansans inbred yokels is not the way to go. Sure we have a lot of crazies out there, but most of us strongly disapprove of the rabid hate being spewed by Fred Phelps and his ilk.
-an offended Kansan
I’m with bullitt.
These guys are only fueled by hate reactions against them. A hacking attempt will only strengthen their resolve.
Show them as anomaly once, but why spend time *repeatedly* giving people something to get upset about? Leave that up to the regular news.
In fact you will find if you visit their site one of the reasons why they are so pissed off with the world because other Kansan’s hated them as much as everyone else and tried to bomb their church afterwhich they were ignored by the police.
A pretty dumb thing to put on their website if you ask me. I imagine that Fred should hire a PR firm and then maybe they can do as well as the scientologist have done in spreading hate towards psychiatrists.
I had completely forgotten about these fools which was a good thing. They’re whacked out of their skulls and that man’s children never had a chance at a normal life.
Regardless, this is just giving them attention. They have no power what so ever and no one takes them seriously, isn’t reposting their information just giving them a bigger audience and the reaction they want?
Madness.
Here in the USA, this group has inspired several states and local governments to enact laws restricting protests at certain functions. This was because this group in particular began loudly protesting and picketing at the burials of dead soldiers returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. They would shout and wave placards praising god for killing the soldiers. How’s that for showing respect to grieving families?
Though this group is the more extreme and very vocal end of the christian zealots here in the USA, they are not, by any means, alone in their zealotry.
I’m dismayed people are advocating hacking the websites of those they disagree with. People should be able to voice their opinions, no matter how stupid or hateful those opinions may be. That’s just my opinion, of course.
Glad to hear how you f***ing hypocritical arrogant Western a-holes believe in free speech — right up until someone says something you don’t like, and all the sudden you advocate the use of coercive totalitarian state force against them. Hypocrites are the ones who should be burning in hell. THAT MEANS YOU
Whoa whoa whoa, don’t group the entirety of ‘the West’ with these overzealous bigots. Saying that anyone should be ‘burning in hell’ because of where they come from or what they look like is wrong in any instance–can we all at least agree on that much?
Fred Phelps jacks off to sticky rice gay porn.
About us “hypocritical arrogant Western a-holes,” freedom of speech is a constitutional right allowing for the expression of dissenting opinions without fear of imprisonment. Nothing more. We are still entitled to be disgusted by and lash out against people who pervert this right to attack and dehumanize others.
Australian reporter Charles Firth covering a WBC protest. Hilarious…
Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group.
They hate gays and judge people.
The Bible says not to judge, but these idiots from WBC do so anyway.
The go to the funerals of soldiers and hold up stupid signs that say “Thank God for 9/11”, and “God hates fags.”
WBC forgot that God so loved the world, that he sent his son here so that we can be forgiven for our sins.
God loves us.
God does not hate us.
God loves America.
God loves all countries.
WBC says that there is no hope for us.
God gives us hope.
Westboro Baptist Church is the Devil’s whore.
I laugh at them.
George Vreeland Hill
These people are under the judgment of the very God they misrepresent. And He is Jealous for his name!
The Bible, Proverbs 17:5 “He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.”
The Westboro Baptist Church is not a real church. They’re a bunch of lawyers who intentionally say horrible things in hopes of provoking violent reactions from people that they can then sue them for.
It’s best not to give these people any attention.
The Reverend Fred Phelps and his entire brainwashed clan simply need to be euthanized.
Who r they (Westboro Baptist Church)to judge China people,as far as i know Jesus loves every humans cz he used His own image to create humans.They really shame on all the real christian!What a fool deeds they made….let’s God had mercy on them,God is watching what had they said…they hav to answer for it.I love china n i will keep on praying for china….cz god loves china too….Cheer up,china…God is giving you a helping hand….May God Bless China…
Eh. Doesn’t really matter. With a name like GodHatesFags, you can’t really expect them to say anything worth your ire.
It’s more tragic when you hear of the stupidity of people like Sharon Stone and Whoopi Goldberg saying that the earthquake was karma for actions towards Tibet. Well gee, 1) the area had a significant number of ethnic Tibetans already and 2) so bad karma gets handed out to regular people with little say about their government’s policies? Righhhhhhht.
Just goes to show to what degree these self-professed big-shots pretend to know about the world. I see the problem as not just the coldheartedness of these idiots, but also the ability to BS so confidently.
So how do the Westboro Baptists explain that the giant statue of Buddha suffered no damage? By their logic, it proves Buddha superior to their God.