Comments on: A Rare Look Into Westboro Baptist Church http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/10/a-rare-look-into-westboro-baptist-church/ Hatewatch is a blog of the Southern Poverty Law Center Fri, 24 May 2013 18:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: MrsCaptJack http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/10/a-rare-look-into-westboro-baptist-church/comment-page-1/#comment-283492 MrsCaptJack Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:42:24 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5988#comment-283492 I find it very interesting and quite telling that the members of this "church" are so terrified of God. Reverence is one thing, terror is quite another. I find it very interesting and quite telling that the members of this “church” are so terrified of God. Reverence is one thing, terror is quite another.

]]> By: Village Idiot http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/10/a-rare-look-into-westboro-baptist-church/comment-page-1/#comment-264098 Village Idiot Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:09:56 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5988#comment-264098 That's the thing, Carol ... Baptist churches have no governing body. Often, they have no fixed ecclesial polity to follow, no inter-church relations, and no external standards by which to assess their corporate identity. There is no one to whom to appeal to redress problems in leadership, and the list could continue. The existence of ecclesiastical polity, interchurch relations, etc. certainly doesn’t preclude all problems. But they do put in place consistent, principled and rational procedures for redressing abuses, excesses and malfeasances perpetrated in the name of God. The absence of such measures is an open invitation for financial and human abuses of many kinds. This might be why some personality types are drawn to the situation the way flies descend on dead fish. Village Idiot That’s the thing, Carol …

Baptist churches have no governing body. Often, they have no fixed ecclesial polity to follow, no inter-church relations, and no external standards by which to assess their corporate identity. There is no one to whom to appeal to redress problems in leadership, and the list could continue.

The existence of ecclesiastical polity, interchurch relations, etc. certainly doesn’t preclude all problems. But they do put in place consistent, principled and rational procedures for redressing abuses, excesses and malfeasances perpetrated in the name of God. The absence of such measures is an open invitation for financial and human abuses of many kinds.

This might be why some personality types are drawn to the situation the way flies descend on dead fish.

Village Idiot

]]> By: Carol http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/10/a-rare-look-into-westboro-baptist-church/comment-page-1/#comment-261459 Carol Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:30:38 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5988#comment-261459 Don't Baptists have a synod or governing body of some sort? As a non-Baptist I'm trying not to let the name of this church influence my perception of the other churches. That in itself is a lesson in how prejudices can fester and spread. Don’t Baptists have a synod or governing body of some sort? As a non-Baptist I’m trying not to let the name of this church influence my perception of the other churches.
That in itself is a lesson in how prejudices can fester and spread.

]]> By: Marisa http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/10/a-rare-look-into-westboro-baptist-church/comment-page-1/#comment-261417 Marisa Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:13:58 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5988#comment-261417 Rev. Phelps is getting old - so we'll be RID of him one of these days....but his followers will undoubtedly carry on with his psycho-talk. Rev. Phelps is getting old – so we’ll be RID of him one of these days….but his followers will undoubtedly carry on with his psycho-talk.

]]> By: marta kaye http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/10/a-rare-look-into-westboro-baptist-church/comment-page-1/#comment-261357 marta kaye Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:29:10 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=5988#comment-261357 Westboro Baptist is an Odious Building that holds the KKK of yesteryear,-- and is not a church. Westboro Baptist is an Odious Building that holds the KKK of yesteryear,– and is not a church.

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