I don’t know very much about Elizabeth Edwards, except that she lost her 16-year-old child to an accident (which would have absolutely destroyed me), suffered public betrayal by her husband and relentless embarrassment at the hands of the press, and gracefully and courageously fought a truly nasty disease. Now she is dead, and her family has the right to commemorate her life and bury her in peace and with dignity.
I was brought up in the Methodist Church, and taught that it was not my place, as a mere mortal, to judge another person’s life and sins. Jesus said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” So, whatever sins Elizabeth Edwards committed should and will be judged by God alone, right? WRONG! Apparently, the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, has been deputized by the Almighty himself to pass judgment on Elizabeth Edwards.
The WBC has announced that “God Hates Elizabeth Edwards,” because:
When they [the Edwardses] were visited from the Most High God with the death of their 16-year-old son, they did not humble themselves before His mighty hand. They reared up in rage, decided they would show God who is boss, and meddled in matters of the womb, resulting in 2 more children -- now motherless."
Asserting that Elizabeth Edwards is now a "resident of hell, where her rebellion and rage will take full flower," the WBC has announced its intention to disrupt and defile her funeral – just as its members have disrupted and defiled funerals of several US troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (You will recall that the WBC justifies those disruptions by asserting that God hates America.)I refuse to believe that real flesh-and-blood human beings could be as hateful and cruel as the leaders and members of the Westboro Baptist Church. And isn’t it the ultimate irony that they invoke their faith in a loving Christian God to justify their behavior?
Thanks for that.
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