I came accross this picture at the blog http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/btb/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/3343598218_f7509066b7_b.jpg via The Daily Dish, it is a flyer at a counter protest to Westboro Baptist Church. If you don't know about Westboro they are a church that is headed by Fred Phelps and basically consists of his extended family and they travel around the country and set up disgusting protests a military funerals, plane crash funerals and others and make a scene claiming that the death was cause by God as retribution for Americas tolerance for homosexuality. I won't even begin to go into what I think about them but it does speak to how some areas of the Church have gotten so far off the meaning of the Gospels and in turn have turned already skeptical people even further away.
Too often believers look at these groups as funny, and in some way they are but in other ways they are very dangerous and should be taken seriously. Apparently, on this day another group came out to protest Westboro and printed up flyers which used scripture in a twisted way to show God hates figs which plays on Westboro's "God Hates Fags" website address and signs. This is what we need more of. The true Church the church centered on and grounded in Love to use scripture and stand up to these hate/fear-mongers. Showing the true love of Christ up against these groups not only will shed God's light on these misguaided people but is a powerful witness for the true God we believe in.
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