Personally, I'm trying to read the banner at the top of the church in the background. All I can parse so far is that is says "god hates mmphruslshrm" (with 'god' in decaps).
I was wondering if the software was set up to try to add a further element in the background, of if that was original to the photo. (If the latter... whaa!??)
It's Westboro so it likely says godhatesfags.com. This is quite a well know church of bigots from the US. IIRC the congregation is mostly interrelated (I'll say no more). On the positive side I think they inspired a play that is running here in Canada - in fact IIRC they were going to travel up here and boycott it. BTW that is the URL to their church website, believe it or not. So screwed up.
That would make sense. (oooh... can we boycott Chrisendom??! {gggg!})
But the banner must be some other variant. The first two words are clearly "god hate"; the next letter is obscured; and the next two letters are clearly "am" with the following letter being maybe an "e". (Or maybe not.)
Okay, squinting really hard, I think the sign most likely reads "godhatesamerica.com". There's clearly a dotted letter (i or j) late in the banner, and the other letter-shapes either fit the remaining pieces or fit the obscured portions.
BTW, my 5 year old daughter says God Loves Happy People, does that mean she's a heretic who should be burned? Perhaps Jim will feature her in a total depravity post.
My claim to shame is that I live within 35 miles of Phred Felps and the Westboro antichurch. But I also remind myself that Topeka, Kansas was where the pentacostal movement was born (though it never caught on here, it just moved south down into Oklahoma and Texas, then on West to Azuza street), and also where WWJD was born--Charles Sheldon was a congregational pastor in Topeka and the "chapters" in the book In His Steps were a series of Sunday night sermons--you can still see his study in the middle of the ahem, "world famous" Topeka zoo. Desegregation also began in Topeka (Brown vs. the Board of ed)--which doesn't speak entirely well of us, since the schools had to be desegregated in the first place; but at least we didn't say, "over my dead body." I fill in once a month as guest pastor of the "Beecher Bible and Rifle Church", which was established to make sure that the Kansas territories became a free state. (Google it, there really is such a place.)
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I love the quotation marks around "Dr Jim West". It adds to the mystery of the man.
Wow. I hope Jim posts his sermon notes.
Thanks, this gave me a good laugh, it really made me happy... Oh no, now God hates me too! Doh!
cheeky thing....
Personally, I'm trying to read the banner at the top of the church in the background. All I can parse so far is that is says "god hates mmphruslshrm" (with 'god' in decaps).
I was wondering if the software was set up to try to add a further element in the background, of if that was original to the photo. (If the latter... whaa!??)
JRP
It's Westboro so it likely says godhatesfags.com. This is quite a well know church of bigots from the US. IIRC the congregation is mostly interrelated (I'll say no more). On the positive side I think they inspired a play that is running here in Canada - in fact IIRC they were going to travel up here and boycott it. BTW that is the URL to their church website, believe it or not. So screwed up.
That would make sense. (oooh... can we boycott Chrisendom??! {gggg!})
But the banner must be some other variant. The first two words are clearly "god hate"; the next letter is obscured; and the next two letters are clearly "am" with the following letter being maybe an "e". (Or maybe not.)
Okay, squinting really hard, I think the sign most likely reads "godhatesamerica.com". There's clearly a dotted letter (i or j) late in the banner, and the other letter-shapes either fit the remaining pieces or fit the obscured portions.
Thanks for the help!
JRP
it says:
godhatesamerica.com
BTW, my 5 year old daughter says God Loves Happy People, does that mean she's a heretic who should be burned? Perhaps Jim will feature her in a total depravity post.
Oh the humanity of it all!!!!!!!!
But we are all agreed that we like their banner ...?
My claim to shame is that I live within 35 miles of Phred Felps and the Westboro antichurch. But I also remind myself that Topeka, Kansas was where the pentacostal movement was born (though it never caught on here, it just moved south down into Oklahoma and Texas, then on West to Azuza street), and also where WWJD was born--Charles Sheldon was a congregational pastor in Topeka and the "chapters" in the book In His Steps were a series of Sunday night sermons--you can still see his study in the middle of the ahem, "world famous" Topeka zoo. Desegregation also began in Topeka (Brown vs. the Board of ed)--which doesn't speak entirely well of us, since the schools had to be desegregated in the first place; but at least we didn't say, "over my dead body." I fill in once a month as guest pastor of the "Beecher Bible and Rifle Church", which was established to make sure that the Kansas territories became a free state. (Google it, there really is such a place.)
The quotes around "Dr Jim West" mean that is not his real name, don't you think? Maybe that's his preaching pseudonym.
godhatesamerica.com is one of Westboro's websites.
The Westboro folks are lovely people. They picked our church a couple of years ago. They'll set American right.
Sigh...that's "picketed".
Does that mean Americans are happy people? Or is 'happy' supposed to be... ohhhhh! Now I get it!!
JRP
On the other hand, I suspect the quotation marks mean it will be someone posing as Jim West. Now, who would do a thing like that...?
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