Here’s a press release issued today by Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, with grammatical errors intact:

WBC to picket the funeral of Rev. Jerry Falwell - at Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia - in religious protest and warning: “God is not mocked!,, Gal. 6:7. God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and all such Arminian heretic preachers - from fundamentalist evangelicals to openly gay Episcopalians and pedophile Catholics - all of whom have created the Satanic Sodomite Zeitgeist wherein America has irreversibly gone the way of Sodom. There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable. To wit:

1 Falwell was a true Calvinistic Baptist when he was a young preacher in Springfield, Missouri; and sold his soul to Free-Willism (Arminianism) for lucre.

2. Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC’s faithful Bible preaching - thereby committing the unpardonable sin - otherwise known as the sin gainst the Holy Ghost.

3. Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, Etc. All for lucre - making him guilty of their sins.


Here are my thoughts on this, and they aren’t very easy to express. Is Falwell in hell? I don’t think so. He was in covenant with Christ, and though I believe he broke covenant with Christ and craved the admiration of anti-Christs as a logical extension of his perverted theology, he was a professing believer. It’s not in my power to unilaterally excommunicate a man like Falwell, and this is where the problem opens wider, it seems to me. I don’t for a minute believe that George W. Bush is a Christian, but he too has been baptized. On whose authority do we pronounce him to be cut off from the assembly of the righteous if he refuses to repent? He should be punished severely for the river of blood he has shed. But who is going to do that when we cannot even hope for his liberal church - full of members who are also in covenant - to condemn his actions? What good is it to recognize the authority of churches that either no longer believe the gospel or are otherwise unaccountable for their behavior? Is truth at the mercy of the free market? We all know the Roman Catholic answer to these questions, but they forget that there is a letter in the Bible to the church at Rome saying that if any church can fall away, it’s them (Romans 11). Anyway, this has been a snapshot of the muddled thoughts in my head.