Gossip has spread like wildfire today that rabidly anti-gay Westboro Baptist church members may be planning a mass suicide after Gossip Boy found a cryptic blog entry on the hate group's website. WestboroChildren.jpgAcross the liberal blogosphere, both readers and writers have rejoiced.

Phelps' "church" has never been more than a personality cult for he and his daughter Shirley. Would I be sorry to see Fred and Shirley Phelps feeding worms? Not in the least. Couldn't happen to nicer people. But those children? I still have hope for them and I'm not willing to say, "Good riddance." These younguns don't deserve to be killed because they're cult leader is bankrupt, elderly and in poor health.

I can see that the cult leadership would be worried and considering going out Jim Jones style. Once old pa is gone, the money is dried up and the multitude of children start being exposed to the real world and ostracized by general society, the dynamic would change dramatically. As the children leave the cult in favor of friends, education and a social life, it'll be lonely for poor deluded Shirley Phelps. Whenever you follow a charismatic leader in a personality cult, you're always second best and the group usually falls apart.

I'm not sure that the hate group is planning a mass suicide though. Quotes after the jump. What's your opinion?

While several sites have offered little snippets of the incredibly long rant on the site, it seems appropriate to include more of what they've written. Once you have more context it seems less like a suicide manifesto and a general purpose Apocalyptic end-of-days rant.

Because no matter how silly we think they are, there are plenty of people out there who believe the Bible so literally they think the end of the world is upon us. People have fallen for this for centuries now. Even former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin believes in Armageddon and the whole "Left Behind" philosophy of religion...

You can read the entire post on the hate group's site if you'd like, but I tried to keep most of the quotes people are freaking out over in context. What do you think?

We have to be here. Right at these locations where Doomed americans worship their dead. The time when God has dealt his most severe blow to a person, or a family, or a community, or a nation - He has slain their children and their great men. That is the way God gets the attention of a rebellious people - if only for a moment! So that's where we must be.

Listen, you Doomed american rebels. You have to hear these words. We're supposed to make you hear the words and get really, really angry at us - because our words are mixed with God's cup of wrath being forced down your slimy rebellious throats! Look at the words, you rebels!

Jeremiah 25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

We are particularly urgent about it, because the time is shortly to come when we will grant you your wicked wish, Doomed america! Your smart-assed pundits and foul-mouthed politicians have for years told us to pack up and leave if we don't like this filthy little cancerous boil on the butt of the earth. You all think you're so clever that you can come up with such cutesy little quips. You're collectively so Bible dumb that you don't know what you're saying. So let me help you out.

Look at the examples in scriptures when a nation - or world - of Godless rebels cry out at God's patient Saints to get the hell out! Noah got on the ark and God shut the door - then the entire population of the world was wiped out. YAY!

Lot tried to get his sons-in-law to listen and leave Sodom with him - but they liked their country and told him he was crazy. He left. They were toast! YAY!

Before God wholly wiped out the greatest army in history, he had to get his people to "come out with great substance". (Genesis 15:14) YAY!
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God's people in existence in every age are the very pillars that the earth stands upon. That is to say, without the presence of God's people in a place - there is nothing left in that worthless location to spare it any longer, so God will gladly wipe it out!

Let us see how that is shortly now to play out, my angry little sodomite-loving friends. It's about time for us to leave this place. The prophets said it would have to happen ... and we have learned from a whole lot of years of up-close and personal experience that we should listen to the prophets. "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." (1 Corinthians 10:11) We are that happy little group of souls "upon whom the ends of the world are come." YAY! Check it out now.
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And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Revelation 18:1-5

How freakin' awesome is that? We gotta go, peeps! We gotta go! And when we do, it's time for this filthy nation to receive of all the plagues that your Creator has promised. The reason there is such urgency in those words ... such passion in the irresistible call from our Saviour, Husband, and Friend ... is because when that time comes for this rebellious nation... it is going to be very fast and very violent, such that all mankind is utterly and simply amazed. Check out the words, fools ... it's all about the words!
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"For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate." Revelation 18:8-19

Can you say "McWowsers"? How friggin' cool is that? How specific and articulate is that? How amazingly and gloriously refreshing is that? The whole world has become linked to this nation's prosperity through an umbilical cord - and the spontaneous reaction all will have at your utter and complete and astonishingly rapid destruction will be to simply weep and wail at the reality of it all.

But we will be long gone by then! We're expecting it to come soon. The indicators, that the cup of the iniquity of this vile and irreversibly-doomed nation is almost full, are everywhere!. A few more puzzle pieces will need to fall into place - the wholesale casting off of anything decent. Through legislative action, executive enforcement, and judicial interpretation the best this nation has by way of laws will be neutered. There will be nothing of any honor or prestige left - just 24/7/365 pursuit of lust and sin at any cost to any resource.

So when you see us drop in, tell you about why God has begun your march to destruction, and then get out - it's because the time is short. We have a job to do, and very little time to do it.

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