…of Hollywood and the elitist left:
Because those craaaazy red states are the places where you’re likely to find fundies, and the Westboro church is just the natural extrapolation of the red-state fundie ideas, right? RED STATE! OOHGABOOGA! Think of it: horror movies often have guys who A) kidnap victims, B) saw off their heads, and C) film it all for their own enjoyment. Oh, if only there really was a group of religious extremists who did these all things – it would give a movie a certain horrible topicality you just don’t get with unkillable bogeymen. But Smith would never do a movie about Al Qaeda in, say, a city in a blue state. No one would produce it; no one would distribute it. But a movie that links the Westboro church to something inherent in the ideological distinction of a “red state” will get you backslaps from all the right-thinking people. It’s lazy. It’s super-lazy.
A couple points. First, this is just more slander of Christians while ignoring the fact that Fred Phelps and his fellow vile cretinous loony tunes are Democrats. But as with Timothy McVeigh, they never let reality get in the way of an urban myth when they see an opportunity to smear conservatives and Christians.
Second, they’re both Christophobes and Islamaphobes. They’re Christaphobes in the same sense that they (projecting) accuse others of being “Islamaphobes,” that is, they have an irrational fear of Christians (at least as far as their remaining hale and hearty goes, though perhaps their fear that Christians will help undo the state that they worship is genuine). On the other hand, while those they call “Islamaphobes” have a quite reasonable concern about a foreign totalitarian ideology making a foothold in our own culture, the leftist elites have a simple and genuine fear of actual violence from Muslims (though they rarely state it explicitly), were they to ever give them the same treatment that they fearlessly mete out to peace-loving Christians (and conservatives) every day.
I sometimes wonder what I’d do if I didn’t have Facebook to expose the ridiculous extremes of the left for me on a regular basis. Here’s a perfect example of what you describe: I have a friend from high school who is a rather far-left lesbian professor of anthropology and who has been known to post things that are hostile to Christianity and American society and traditional values from time to time. Well, the other day, I noticed that someone she knows changed his picture to read “I am a Muslim. Ask me about Islam.” And she responded to this by saying, “That is great. We should hang out more in the new year!”
I was watching “Edge of Darkness” the other day. Bruce Willis plays a Boston cop seeking justice for his daughters murder. In the movie there is a corrupt politician who is associated with the people who killed his daughter. A Senator, a REPUBLICAN senator, In Massachussetts. A republican senator who looks and acts JUST like John Kerry is billed as a republican in the movie.
If I weren’t interested in politics I never would have noticed it, but in that movie the do that “subliminal” BS trying to convey all things conservative are evil. No matter how ridiculous the idea of there being a republican Senator in Massachussetts.
The movie was released 1 week after scott brown was elected, so at the time of production it had been 38 years since there was a republican senator in massachussets, but Eh, evil politician, MUST be republican right?
not bruce willis, mel gibson, blech.
Kevin Smith has pretty much proved that his limit lies with dick jokes. That must have an effect on a man.
Anyone who thinks Phelps and his crowd are Christians needs to listen better.
They spend half their time saying THEY are the ONLY true Christian church, all other churches are just fronts for Communists, or Republicans, or Democrats, but ALL for the DEVIL…and as such, all their followers will burn in hell. Phelps’ daughter was here in NC for Mrs Edwards funeral and I heard her on the radio.
She said that she knew that her fathers followers are the true followers of Christ, she doubts everyone else being a true follower, because daddy Fred says so.
All I can say is, I’m not drinking any kool aid at the Westboro Baptist Church Spring Bake Sale!!
Toonophobes, and the Toonophobe-ophobes that fear them.