This is why Westboro Baptist Church is a joke

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Eppie,

I think that you are looking at it from a different perspective than a lot of people. No, Personally, I don't think that the Pope is NEARLY as bad as Fred Phelps, and I'm fairly anti-Catholicism in my views of god / religion / faith / etc... GWB isn't Catholic, and his usage of religious tones to orchestrate the war is a far different point to make that what Fred Phelps is doing. Fred Phelps is doing near irreparable harm to the image of christianity, while pushing a political agenda aimed at his "enemy"

His campaign is akin to dropping a bunker buster on a house to deal with a termite problem. It isn't winning him friends on any side. From an atheist POV, it would be easy to lump Fred Phelps in with the likes of the Pope, and pastors, and all others whom that PoV would take offense to. But, from a different perspective, Fred Phelps is an evil man. While some might find my analogy here hyperbolic, he is more akin to hitler than the pope.