Banished!

[ILG]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

ILG... all I can say is... wow, my family and I just watched the two videos you posted. My kids were amazed at how a little bit of truth mixed with a whole lot of pride and judgmentalism was used effectively to control the minds of people.

A lot of the rhetoric found spewing from the Phelps family is so similar to the same "I'm better than you" because "I'm holier than you" stuff that is found on a certain standard thread going on right now. The idea that because "I do this, or don't do that" that I am somehow better than all of you. And the mind control games these people play remind me of the same type of rhetoric that I heard growing up in ultra-con churches. I haven't thrown the baby out with the bath water, but I have seen through all the hate-filled, judgmental rhetoric that is presented with a little bit of truth to somehow validate all they do.

I pray that these people of Westboro would truly experience the love and mercy of God in their lives and leave the judging up to one true Judge.

Yes, I think the main similarity is the mind control techniques. They are not the same doctrinally but the same logic is behind the thinking. Thanks for watching and commenting!