Westboro Baptist Church Bullying??

Westboro Baptist Church was established in 1955 by a Pastor named Fred Phelps, in Topeka, Kansas. They claim to follow the teachings of the Bible by preaching against sin of all kinds (adultery, divorce/remarriage, homosexuality). They believe that the doctrines of grace are well summed up by John Calvin's 5 points of Calvinism: Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints. Today these doctrines are just about universally condemned. Personally i would take that as a sign that no one should be following them. If no one likes them that's a good indication that they are most likely unjust for the time period and the beliefs are just totally unfair to the natural rights of everyone. They believe that "God loves everyone" and "Jesus died for everyone" is a lie. For some reason they believe that a Church who "supposedly believe the Bible" tells lies. How is that lies?

These people "engage in daily peaceful sidewalk demonstrations" that bash homosexuals because they believe gays are "soul-damning, nation-destroying filth". Is that any way to talk about another human? Everyone should respect Human Dignity. They show up at funerals and petition at public places distributing peace. Don't they understand that funerals give closure to families? And the funerals are for military men, the people that have served out country and have died for our freedom so people can have freedom of speech. In my opinion, they are absolutely crazy. They say that they create colorful signs defending their causes. Some example of the signs are:

They even get their children to peach their blasphemy! ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is this religion really related to Christianity?! I can't believe people can be so narrow-minded and just plain not even good enough for words. This was disgusting to read. Many people feel the same, I'm sure.

The so called church says they are doing good Charity by showing the people of the world that everyone is going to H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS because Jesus or God hates them and their children. But if this was the case than wouldn't God hate them also?! How do they justify doing such immoral things as moral? Technically they are wishing people dead, which is very immoral to me.

I read an article on http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/westboro-church-uses-iphone-to-announce-steve-jobs-funeral-protest/ and upon reading some of the comments i found that i agreed totally with them. They were just as outraged as i was. It infuriating to see that much hatred in the world today.

Cyberbullying

With technology today, it's almost inevitable that bullying would somehow transfer and/ or intensify with anonymous posts and comments. Everyday thousands even millions of people get cyberbullied. Unlike normal face-to-face bullying, Cyberbullying almost gives bullies the upper hand because most of the time, with privace rights of the internet, disables the ability for people to find you. Someone could totally bash someone and no one would ever know it's them. They are guarded behind the computer screen or cellphone or whatever it might be so they think they are safe from being caught.

Being hidden makes them also feel like it's less personal, like it can't come back at them in someway. As the Stargazette article said people should feel safe especially at school and at home but for many, many kids and teens that's not the case. 9 out of 10 kids say that they have been cyberbullied at some point in their lives. That's more than 89% of kids. These kids have been threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed and tormented by others online. It is really time to put a stop to it.

http://www.stargazette.com/article/20111006/VIEWPOINTS02/110060318/Cyberbullies-should-not-ignored-any-longer?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs

http://www.sys-con.com/node/2010139