Saturday, February 01, 2003

Eschaton Flashback

Someone in my comments recently jokingly used the term 'Saddamite.' I doubt I coined the term, but I believe I did once find the best use for it - when referring to Fred Phelps' trips to Iraq.


Here's Fred's love letter to Saddam:


We understand that Iraq is the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets without fear of arrest and prosecution. Alas, the United States no longer allows the Gospel to be freely and openly preached on the streets, because militant sodomites now control our government, and they violently object to the Bible message...The same majoritarian sodomite tyranny that now guides the Clinton administration's repressive policies toward Gospel preaching on America's streets, is apparently responsible -- at least in part -- for the merciless slaughter by starvation of 400 innocent Iraqi babies each day in your country. If our government and laws will allow it, and at the invitation of your government, we would like to send a delegation from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, to preach the Gospel on the streets of Baghdad for one week in the near future."

-- Fred Phelps, in a letter to Saddam Hussein,
November 30, 1997


to which I responded: Does this mean that Fred Phelps is a Saddamite?


Well, I thought it was funny...


Here's a picture of Fred 's gang doing the Lord's work in Baghdad.