John the Baptist

described two deities in conflict, one called “Illuminating Wisdom” and the other, “Destructive Spirit”. Examples of good and evil still exist, and can be seen in modern times as well. Current representations of evil include ISIS and the Westboro Baptist Church, whereas good can be seen in the firefighters of 9/11 and the “Pay it Forward” movement. In modern times, nearly everyone can agree that terrorism, and more specifically ISIS, is hateful, destructive, and pure evil. Terrorism, itself,…

Group Speech Outline: Anonymous Group/Movement Contributors: Dakota Wright, Harmony Carr, Haley Nicholson, Logan Anderson Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the group known as Anonymous. Introduction (Wear Mask) Attention Getter: Last week a group known as anonymous revealed over 500 members of the KKK (Vandita), some of these people held positions of power and government in the United States. These are just one of their many targets. Relevance to Audience: Anonymous works to…

congregation had no idea that pastor Fred Waldron Phelps would become the leader of a notorious hate group. Westboro Baptist Church was not the place of love it seemed to be. East Side Baptist Church in Topeka appointed Fred Phelps as their associate pastor in 1954. In 1955, they made him the head pastor of their new plant, Westboro Baptist. By 1956, Phelps had broken away from East Side Baptist (Gospel). Suddenly, Westboro was a church that did not conform to any religious denomination. …

When asking people what they think about the word “Baptists” they immediately think about people who go to church or judgmental/hypocritical people, but the labels of being “judgmental” are totally false (Zhein’s Survey). However, according to the Westboro Baptist Church website their constant picketing and cruel offense that they do to judge people who are not only of the LGBT group (Figure 1). When the Orlando Shooting of the Pulse nightclub for gays took place, the WBC showed up to “support”…

We live in a society where times have changed and so have the traditions of many. In this 21st century we have more people open to accepting the beliefs of others, but we still see in some cases how loyalty can fog logical reasoning. Although foggy logical reasoning could be negative their can also be a positive effect in loyal peoples actions. Looking at religion as a whole, we see certain groups of people expressing their faith by committing acts of terrorism, and subordination. In other…

people take it for granted and some take it too far. The Phelps family are of those who took their right of freedom of speech and used it in a negative way. The Phelps family are the founders of the Westboro Baptist church, yet their practice of religion has nothing in relation to common Baptist churches. The Phelps family practice a rather negative form of protesting with signs that state “God hates fags” and “Thank God for dead soldiers” and they believe that “God punishes the United States…

heard of these instances from the Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas and the even more uncontrollable and damaging cyberbullying. As long as the people using hate speech do not use “threats of illegal conduct or incitement intended to and likely to produce imminent illegal conduct,” (Volokh) then they are protected by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Serving in the Marine Corps here in Oklahoma City, I have come across the Westboro Baptist Church while doing a funeral detail in…

Since 1991 the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas has preached their hatred towards jews, catholics, homosexuals, and numerous funerals. Over the years the Westboro Church has formed into a hate group more than a religion. The church was founded by Fred Phelps. The church started off as a normal southern baptist church back when it was founded in the 1950’s. But as time went on Fred preached his beliefs to his small group of his parishioners. Fred Phelps forced his own incite onto God’s…

one of these groups is the Westboro Baptists. This group is notorious for being a “hate cult”. They have picketed anything and everything: Lady Gaga concerts, soldier’s funerals, even funerals of those who have been killed in bombings and shootings. They will picket anything that will gain them attention; the more controversial the better. This group believes one thing; everyone who is not one of them is going to hell, without a doubt. The Westboro Baptist Church started protesting and…

against Westboro Baptist Church. This is because Westboro Baptist Church is liable for picketing the Maryland funeral of Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder on March of 2006. The Westboro protesters held signs with messages like “You’re Going to Hell”, “Thank God for Dead Soldiers”, and “Thank God for IEDs”. The Westboro Baptist Church believes the country’s values are wrong for allowing homoseuality and having soldiers protect a country that allows gays is evil. I believe what Westboro Baptist…