Comments on: A God of Hate: Review of Fall from Grace

By: Caleb Burch

Caleb Burch — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:49:39 +0000

While I admire his power and authority he has over people, wishing I myself could command such authority, I can’t help but think he is, in all possible meanings of the term, a self-righteous religious fanatic that’s the exact reason America is being hated and disrespected in so many countries around the world. The only other religious group that feels this strongly are the Christians’ “arch rivals,” the fanatic Muslims. What never ceases to amaze me is that these fanatically religious people think they are doing the right thing for saying such lewd and crass terms as publicly announcing that “god hates fags” and showing up and picketing a dead homosexual boy’s funeral but yet they will have the nerve (and hypocrisy) to say that Muslims and Neo-Nazis, etc. are bad people when they are one in the same. It amazes me how hypocritical religion can be. The only way we can even hope to advance as a nation and society is by renouncing these ridiculous “cave man” style scare tactics in order just to control the religious or political communities. It is in every way what happened to my own country, Germany, at the outbreak of Nazism and WWII and everyone knows where that went. I myself don’t believe in the whole “2012 is the end of the world” prophecy, either, however, I do believe that if anything drastic is to happen in the next several years, it will be the collapse of America as we know it due to this insolence that is expressed in articles and speeches repressing the rights of Human beings no matter what race, belief, or sexual orientation.

By: Gorrduk Burnium

Gorrduk Burnium — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:36:09 +0000

Why didn’t Hoste include some references to Phelpses Churches well known racist and anti-semitic comments??

Here is a link to some of his Churches anti-black comments, which is worthy only for entertainment value: http://www.plattsburghforpeace.com/black.htm

“With a religion that boosts the fertility rate of the upper class, there may be eugenic breeding going on in Middle America.”

One finds this hard to believe given the behavior of Christians.

1.) Christians work overtime to import brown and yellow immigrants (the primary reason I left Lutheranism is due to their bringing in Somalis!), having an overall dysgenic effect.

2.) Christians are theologically against all forms of Eugenics, so hence-forth are pro-Dysgenics.

By: HA

HA — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:54:04 +0000

Americans who knowingly or otherwise serve the Jews deserve no special consideration. Today they slaughter Iraqis who threaten Israel, tomorrow they’ll slaughter WN who threaten the diaspora.

By: Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:03:30 +0000

Whether I as TOQ editor approve or disapprove of Phelps is not the point. Sometimes I run stories just because they are interesting. Phelps is a car crash, and I can’t help looking, and I want you to look too. Beyond that, however, Phelps is thought-provoking.

Richard Hoste, the review’s author, is clearly ambivalent about Phelps.

On the one hand, Hoste shows Phelps as a malevolent and mischievous hate-monger who seems to choose his targets quite arbitrarily (his “reasoning” that leads him to celebrate the deaths of American soldiers is laughable), and whose protests — especially at funerals — are entirely counter-productive, both given his theology of predestination and the facts about human psychology. Phelps is repulsive not just to orthodox liberals and “hippies,” but to anyone with healthy moral sentiments.

Yet the reviewer cannot help but admire Phelps from a Darwinian point of view — which is certainly NOT Phelps’s own point of view — for Phelps is a genuine patriarch. Hoste the atheist and Darwinist wonders if hateful tribal religions, which offend both reason and decent moral sensibilities, may still be effective vehicles for creating, preserving, and expanding high-IQ endogamous communities.

The answer is yes. Just look at the Jews, whose Old Testament seems to be the main source of Phelps’ theology.

Like I said, Hoste’s review is thought-provoking. And that is why I published it.

By: FTEE

FTEE — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:14:17 +0000

Phelps has a lot to be commended for on the one hand, but on the other hand, protesting the funerals of American Soldiers was crude and disgusting. I also have a problem with his “civil rights” background. He seems to be more of an attention whore than a true believer in anything.

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:55:51 +0000

I’m really confused. So, the author’s conclusion is that this is a good group? That really disgusts me and makes TOQ lose any credibility with me. When my brother-in-law was killed in Iraq we heard that these people would show up at his funeral. No one dealing with the death of a loved one should have to worry about this on the day they mourn their death. As for the comparisons to Ronald Reagan and how the majority of Phelps children still stick with him, brainwashing is a lot more powerful than regular child-rearing, so it’s not really surprising that this is the case.