Thank you for agreeing to answer my questions. I’ll keep them simple. Please answer as succinctly as possible. If it’s possible, answers under 100 words are ideal. This will make it easier to read.
My pleasure. I’ve answered your questions below, keeping them as succinct as possible.
Like I promised, this is a chance to put your message on the pages of Yahoo. I won’t mis-quote you. But I will be required to “bleep” out certain words. Your message will still be understandable.
My kind advice to you is to man up and stop caving to these phony standards by the media, whom God hates, and their hypocritical pretense at delicacy. They’ll promote any kind of filth; just use the words I use, please and thank you. J
As soon as you reply with your answers, I’ll submit the interview to my editors and we’ll have it published here:
http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/111823/donald_pennington.html
So here are my six questions:
1) By now, everyone knows about Westboro Baptist Church’s protests around America. What confuses many of us is why you do it. What exactly is your church’s goal? What are you hoping to achieve?
What we don’t hope to achieve is turning a reprobate into one of God’s elect. That was set in eternity. What we do hope to do is publish, and the Lord has blessed our work so none of our words fall to the ground. No one living in our generation will be able to stand at the White Throne on the Great and Terrible Day of Judgment, and claim they didn’t know their duty to God. We’ve told you all. And along the way, one by one, God uses our preaching to call forth His little sheep. The last sheep will be called; and this work will be done; then this nation will be destroyed. When that happens, your blood will not be on our hands, because we did our duty and warned you.
2) Has any member of WBC ever faced any sort of legal (civil or criminal) trouble for protesting?
Chuckle. This nation, state and city have tried at every level to prosecute and sue us out of existence. None of it worked. We won at the Supreme Court 3/2/11, because we obey the law, and because the LORD God Jehovah is with us. You claim to be a nation of laws, chiefly the organic law of the United States Constitution. But you constantly violate your laws and Constitution as to us. All of which changes nothing, and only underscores the quarrel of the covenant.
3) From what I’ve seen thus far, it seems the heart of your church’s complaint is how America has become accepting (tolerant) of homosexuality, since the Bible condemns homosexuality. The same book also condemns men trimming their beards (Lev. 19:27). Why aren’t the men of your church bearded? They’re all laws from the same book.
You do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. The Mosaic code included dietary and clothing laws, which were mala in prohibita (wrong because they were prohibited, like speeding, or failing to pay taxes), and moral laws, which were mala in se (wrong in and of themselves, like fornication, murder and sodomy). The law was a schoolmaster; it teaches two powerful lessons to the hearts of mankind: 1) you can’t keep the law and save yourself; not possible; 2) put a distinction between good and evil. Christ perfected the law and then God (e.g., Acts 10), repealed the dietary and other such technical laws. The moral law has never changed, and never will. Wear what you want; eat what you want; stop pretending you think anyone is bound by those now-repealed laws. No fornication; no adultery (divorce/marriage chiefly in this society); no sodomy; no idols; no murder (including war and ripping millions of babies from the womb). Obey the moral law. Simple. Do it.
4) Outside of the Bible, in support of that book, what other evidence can you offer which would support any claim your church makes as true?
I don’t need evidence, and have no burden of proof. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against you ungodly rebels, and the existence of God in all His glory is written on your hearts. If you really believed there was no God, and He had no wrath, you wouldn’t waste your time asking me these questions. Rather than spin these fables, under the guise of asking questions, humble yourself before the mighty hand of God, remembering it’s a fearful things to fall into the hands of the Living God; mourn for your sins and the sins of this once-great nation; obey God with all your mind, body, heart and soul; and warn your fellow man to flee the wrath to come. Those precepts resonate in the soul, because all mankind knows them to be true. All else is vanity and rubbish.
5) Why are you hoping to protest the upcoming Reason Rally? Are atheists a threat to you, and if so, why? What has any atheist ever done to you?
I’m hoping to reach a large crowd of rebels, like I do at all the pickets I attend; and in this case, in particular, to remind the phony faux-Christians on the scene that they are responsible for the surge in pretend-atheism, because they offer up a false goddess with no power and no purpose but to be a lust-bellboy-for-the-masses, and thereby turn the moral high ground over to the fags, anarchists and so-called atheists. Their institutionalized lies about God – while they pretend to be the gatekeeper to His commandments – have made atheism the new black. And, of course we’ll be sharing with everyone in sight our shiny new, “God H8s Atheists” sign. Good times. (smiley face)
6) I understand you believe what you’ve been taught about the Bible. But those who’ve grown up in other parts of the world also fervently believe the claims of their religions. Even within Christianity, there have been 34,000 different denominations. So, how do you know you’ve been taught the right religious beliefs?
Because I can read. They hawk fairy tales. They’ve substituted traditions of man, including nasty pagan practices, for the Word of God. Crack a Bible and read it, and you immediately know all pretenders are lying, and there is One Word, One Spirit, One God, One Truth, One Faith. Do you think you’re the first one to come up with this non-argument? Your position, essentially, is this: Rebellious disobedient hell bound humans have made up many iterpretations of the lies about God, therefore God’s word must be false. A lie by any other name is a lie, my friend. Check it out now:
Ecclesiastes 12: 12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Solomon wrote these words; he was the wisest man who ever lived. Step away from the pseudo-intellectual ramblings, and prepare for eternity.
Thank you again. I’m truly looking forward to your answers. And again, I promise not to mis-quote one thing you say. I hope to hear from you soon.
No worries; you’re welcome; thanks for the email.