Louis Theroux and the Westboro Baptist Church

Last sunday I watched a programme on TV which truly upset me. It was called "America's most hated family"
Louis Theroux, a well known documentary maker went to live with the congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church, in America. The church believes that America is being punished by God for its sins. They do not stop there though. They have made it their mission to picket soldiers funerals, denouncing the soldiers as sinners and "fags". They preach hatred and death in the name of God and I just cannot get my head around that. How can someone claim to know God, claim to know the Bible and still preach that God is a god that freely kills people. They claim that all natural disasters are caused by God and are sent to punish people and that anyone who dies in unnatural ways was obviously punished by God and is therefore in Hell.

This goes against everything I have ever learnt or experienced about God. Isn't the Bible's most famous verse John 3:16? God so loved the world..." Why would a God who so loved the world kill people who he loves? Why would He send his Son Jesus to die for us if he is only going to later punish us anyway?

Louis Theroux let me down a little by not being able to argue his points biblically as he obviously did not know enough about the Bible to compete with the random verses the Pastor of the church was using to preach from.

I made the mistake of visiting their website (www.godhatesamerica.com) and I felt compelled to pray for them. That is what I urge anyone reading this to do. Pray that God will reveal Himself to them with all His love, His mercy and His grace. It fills me with such sadness to see so many people filled with so much hate and so confused. It just goes to show that the enemy is still at work in the world today, but unfortunately for him, we know the battle is already won!