Is Fred Phelps a Christian?

[Mechaman]

I guess yes?
Since I'm not a christian, I can say that it doesn't really piss me off that Fred Phelps calls himself one. I can understand why it would piss off christians (or more specifically those who actually follow the biblical reading of "love one another") and folks like Fred Phelps are definitely not doing you guys any favors by calling himself a "baptist". I know lots of christians, a lot of them are nowhere near the level of hate and vileness in Fred Phelps. I've listened to a ton of Phelp's speeches/rants and that of his crazy followers and I have never heard one mention of "love" in any one of those, just flat out hate. And it's more than just gays they hate, it's Jews, it's blacks, it's people who accept the Holocaust happened. Sometimes I wonder if the actual god they worship is not above, but down below. These people are a huge waste of sperm, nothing more, likely even less than that.

I know true christians, true christians condemn outrageous hate as that exhibited by Phelps. Guys like JSojourner, BushOklahoma, and alot of the people I go to college with are more real to Christianity than Fred Phelps and his gang of haters will ever be.