GuitarBizarre

The thing with the WBC is they're calvinists. They believe that absolutely everything that happens on earth is preordained by god, except for the actions of those preordained by god to be part of the elect few who will actually go to heaven.

They also believe that only the WBC qualifies as that elect few. Which is to say, Fred Phelps believes that his family, and his family alone, comprise the entirety of God's favoured people.

How they'd react to half of them being gunned down, would be rather more interesting than I think I can reasonably speculate on.

(Note: This is also why they picket. They believe the god preordained the sins of everyone who isn't in the WBC, and so their pickets are to celebrate the actions of god, who caused his unchosen to sin, that he may strike them down.)


Yes, I'm aware of how completely insane that is.

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wiggums

They also believe that if people are responding so strongly that they must be doing the right thing. If someone did kill a bunch of them, they'd feel even more motivated to promote their message.

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GuitarBizarre

This is true, however much that conflicts with their belief that everything but them is preordained.

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