Watching the documentary in class I could not believe how the Westboro Baptist church could do the things the do so I decided to do my blog on them. The Westboro Baptist church believes that they are the only
true church to God. They have extreme beliefs on how everyone is going to hell
incept for them. They teach their children to do the same and show them how to
protest what the church believes is wrong. The church has isolated itself from
others and discriminates against many. With doing this they are also being
discriminated by others.
The major controversy with this church is how they picket soldier’s
funerals. They believe that the soldiers were killed because they were doing homosexual
activities and that God doesn’t like homosexual activities so he killed them. They
rejoice when bad things happen to others that the church deems as bad people.
The church is practicing all of the three B’s they have
something they believe in, they have a sense of belonging and their behavior is
that they will do anything for the church. The isolate themselves from society
and they strongly believe that their way is they only way to be. The only group
that they feel like they belong in is their group and being around people who
believe in what they believe in. The whole group participates in pickets and
doesn’t question the reason for picketing. To others this group may seem like a
cult but to them they do not view themselves in that sense.
While Googling the Westboro Baptist Church I found a very
interesting video of the women from the documentary that we watched doing a parody
to a Lady Gaga song. I found this to be very interesting because they are
putting their beliefs to music.
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