Westboro Weirdos!

The activities of the Westboro Baptist Church have fascinated me for a while. When I decided that my blog was going to be about religious extremities I immediately thought of the Westboro Baptist Church.



Protest signs held by a child of the WBC.



The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) claims that they are the one true religion of the world and everyone should practice what they preach. If we were to attach them to a religion it would be Christianity, however most Christians, in fact most of man-kind are loathed to be represented by them. The church is based in Kansas, however they spread their word through protests all over the USA at the funerals of dead soldiers. They hate gays, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, and basically anyone that does not believe in what they believe.

For me, the people of the WBC are very disturbing. In this clip –  we can see how extreme the people of this church are. They have no compassion for outsiders. What is most puzzling is that they do this in the name of ‘god’. Isn’t god supposed to be all loving and forgiving to others? Jesus forgave prostitutes and sinners, so it becomes quite difficult to understand the WBC’s logic of American soldiers and gays burning in hell due to the 'wrath of god'. I understand that some religions are opposed to homosexuality, yet it is inconceivable that they would persecute gays in the way that the WBC do.



The WBC promotes the religion through their website. You can be taken to their website content through a number of web links such as http://www.godhatesfags.com/ or http://www.priestsrapeboys.com/. The names themselves take offensive to a whole new level. Some countries have seen them as so offensive that they have banned the WBC from entering their country. Click here for this article. . Do you think that it is right that this group has been banned or do you think its members should be given freedom of speech? Do you think that this group cowers behind the word ‘religion’ and is really a hate group?

My First Blog – An Introduction! 

I wanted to blog about something that was really going to interest both me and my audience (hopefully I will have an audience!). So here it goes….. 

I’ve decided to write about the extremes of both religions and cults. Basically anything that I feel barely resembles its “mainstream religion” that it claims to be, or something that professes to be a religion but considered an extreme cult in the eyes of society. This theme will run through all of my blog posts. I’m going to explore all areas of the Internet and will post relevant articles and YouTube clips. 

I understand that some of the topics and issues that will be dealt with need to be done in a sensitive manner, but please do comment on my posts with any feedback, ideas or challenges that you may have and I will respond to you. 

Now let’s get down to some actual blogging business….

While doing some initial research on extreme religions I came across this website , which as you can see documents some of the world’s extreme religions. Some of them are quite humorous such as the religion of “Diego Maradona” but others appear more radical such as “2 – Nation of Yahweh, Black people are the true Jews”. It will be interesting to explore such an array of not-so-normal religions and see what they all practice. Do you think that religions such as these will turn out to be some harmless crackpot ideas put forward by a bunch of nutters or something that could turn more sinister?