February 26, 2019 ▸ Psychology, Religion

Episode 370: Westboro Baptist Church: What a Bunch of A-Holes

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at quite literally the worst church ever, the Westboro Baptist Church. Made famous for their slogan “God hates fags” (sorry for how many times we end up saying that in this episode!!!), this group is far from a traditional church with large numbers as they would have America believe. Indeed, they are a small, incestuous family community of around 80 members at their largest. They are a small, evil cult founded by the one-time Baptist preacher named Fred Waldron Phelps. Phelps basically stole a church from another church group and started to run it as a hate-fueled base for his family to make money, and he did a pretty good job at it.

He raised his children to become lawyers, police, and correctional officers in prisons, and he started to keep the small church afloat by winning lawsuits against, well, everyone. All the while, he started to turn his church into what he called a picketing ministry. You see, on Oct. 12, 1998, a gay student named Matthew Shepard was killed in a brutal hate crime because he was gay. The douche bags at Westborough Baptist Church protested his funeral with the famous sign “God hates fags,” and the rest was history. (They even wanted to build a granite memorial that said he was burning in hell, but they were denied…)

From there, they started to protest everything and blame every single ill in the nation on homosexuality and how much God hates gay people. Murder? God hates gay people. Soldiers killed by road side bombs? God hates gay people. 9/11? God hates gay people? They Jews? God hates gay people? Justin Bieber? God hates gay people. Seriously, they are like a Pokemon who can only speak by saying their name, but their name is God hates gay people.

From their horrible song parodies against Michael Jackson, to their endless battles in court that they always seem to win, this cult of arse holes keeps on going. They lie and claim they protested over 40,000 events, but they really just post about them on their website. So, what exactly is their belief system? What ended up happening to the founder to get him kicked out of the church? What happened with his funeral? Why are so many younger members of the family defecting? Why do even the KKK hate the jack holes at Westboro Baptist? Listen, laugh, learn.

Great Article: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/westboro-baptist-church