Shirley Phelps had her son out of wedlock.
Bible dictates a woman at the time of being wed not being a virgin would be stoned to death.
The son? Not allowed near a church even 10 generation in.
How is this following their bible like they claim to. You dont get to pick and choose what suites you
Of course you don't, belief is not a choice afterall.
What they are doing makes no sense, that is true. They
are a bunch of crazy loonatics afterall. But they do call themselves christians and in a way their beliefsystem is a christian denomination.
The bible is just a book that can be interpreted in different ways but they do follow Jesus and god, that makes them equal to most other christians in my opinion in terms of the basis of their beliefsystem.
Clearly every single religious denomination picks and chooses to an extent, because holy texts are usually ambiguous or even self contradictorary in their entirety.
The westboro are a denomination of christianity, just a very nasty one. It doesn't mean they're 'not christian', but the fact they are is not weight to direct displeasure and hatred towards unrelated denominations or religions.
Exactly. For example, the pope went to Africa, telling the people there that "AIDS is bad but condoms are way worse!", effectively ruining years of educational work. That is a nasty and incredibly evil thing to do as well and yet no one would ever say that the pope is not a christian!