God Hates America Dot Com

We watched a documentary on TV the other night about this strange religious bunch who run the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, in the USA. Louis Theroux made the programme and as usual he did it very well - just the chap for this kind of documentary. On the face of it, most of the church members seemed to be very nice people, although their aged leader, Fred W Phelps Sr, was a silly old sod with no manners and obviously unable to respond sensibly to any questions put to him. If you get the chance, have a look at their website - www.godhatesamerica.com - it is very amusing as long as you don't take them seriously (hopefully, no-one will !!) In particular, their reasons for hating Sweden gave me hysterics !! They appear to believe that homosexuals - whom they rudely refer to as "fags" - are evil, although they don't say why, other than the bible doesn't like them. The church members seem to spend most of their time and energy in demonstrating at funerals of soldiers who were killed in Iraq, so it's hardly surprising that they are not the most popular people in the USA ! This is yet another example of how religious belief warps people's minds and causes trouble and strife throughout civilisation - but it also makes one ask why there are so many fundamentalist groups like this one in the USA.