Should we be surprised by the WBC?/Are they better than other religious groups?

[ShyGuyInChicago]

I read this on another forum. The person said that when one really reads the Bible, nothing about the WBC is surprising. He also said that the WBC is better than other religious because their extreme positions result in them having no influence on policy and law.

It was pretty clear I was making a point about the WBC. The WBC may take christianity to the extreme, but it takes it to a "sensible" extreme (insofar as christianity can be "sensible"). From reading the bible and studying christianity, absolutely nothing about the existence of the WBC or what it does is at all a "surprise" or illogical (insofar as religion or blind faith is concerned), when you mix in beliefs of the miraculous with everyday reality.

If anything, WBC is not nearly as bad as more mainstream Christian groups because of their hateful extremism--we know where they stand and that they do not waiver, which makes their idiocy easier to point out, and thus the WBC rarely achieves restrictions on say, homosexuality and the like, because they are outcasts and don't get very many followers. Contrast that to the sheer power and numbers of more mainstream christian groups, and look at the theological beliefs of their members--their positions are often much more vague than members of the WBC.

[deadpie]

Heh, it really shouldn't be a big surprise. They take some of the parts of The Bible seriously. This is what happens when people take everything word for word.

But you also have to understand that they're purposely twisting words for their own good cause, well, bad cause is more like it. Deep down I can tell that they're using the christian God as an excuse to push their hatred out.

Maybe they are just that out there, which goes back to the first thing I said.

[Modus Operandi]

Any group which promotes hatred under the guise of religion should not be able to be called so.

I feel like WBC really crosses the line between valid religion and hate group sometimes. The fact that they protest soldiers' funerals really irks me. I'm not a super-patriotic person, but I can respect that a soldier is dead, even if they were fighting for a reason I may not wholeheartedly agree with.

[HaydenM]

Sorry but I see all Christian and catholic groups as having the same beliefs as the WBC just they have different ways of going about them, I disagree with both but find that I can easier ignore the normal churches rather than the bloody WBC.

[pageplant77]

I think the only possible thing that could make the WBC worse, is if it were leaded by Harold Camping.