They have turned comic book characters into idols, and worship them they do!<\/em><\/p>\n Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.<\/em><\/p>\n It is time to put away the silly vanities and turn to God like you mean it. The destruction of this nation is imminent – so start calling on Batman and Superman now, see if they can pull you from the mess that you have created with all your silly idolatry.<\/em><\/p>\n And with that, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, so-called, will stand about outside the San Diego Convention center and picket the largest of comic book — and “pop culture” — nerd conventions.<\/p>\n It’s about time somebody took to task the whole line about creating “New Mythology” — like, those Silver Age DC Superman Gorilla-themed comics are definitely tapping Homer.<\/p>\n … and uncover the whole secret alternative<\/a> lifestyles<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0activities<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0— how gay marriage will lead to other marriages <\/a>and perpetuating the Gay Agenda<\/a>. On the other hand, Fred Phelps’s God is about as vidictive and fascist<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and demanding<\/a> as Superman<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0has been <\/a>\u00c2\u00a0over the years.<\/p>\n Anyway… You know, Phelps is in danger of falling into self parody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I once had the displeasure of seeing a Poetry Slam.\u00c2\u00a0 More than one poem made reference to Fred Phelps, who — in cayse you don’t know — is kind of merely an extreme example of homophobia and not representative of anything much.\u00c2\u00a0 International media have been known to reference the “Westboro Baptist Church” as though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"godhatesnerds\"](\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/godhatesnerds-150x150.jpg\" "\\"godhatesnerds\\"")
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