a silver lining of the tsunamis...or not

Fred Phelps is an asshole and if there is a single person alive today who's eternal damnation is assured, it is he. His "church" -- the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas -- is known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard (and wanting to erect an anti-memorial to him) and everyone's favorite website GodHatesFags.com and is now gloating over the deaths of 2000 Swedes due to the tsunamis.

The asswipe has posted a "news release" (linked to a site posting the release, not Phelps' site) praising God for the disaster. "How many tsunami-dead Swedes are fags & dykes?" the release reads, "vacationing on their fat expendable incomes without kids to bother and spend money on." But then he shows his true colors, damning an entire nation for having sent a pastor to jail for a month for having said in a sermon that homosexuality is "abnormal, a cancerous tomour in the body of society" which the courts found to be incitement.

How in bloody hell can a person call themselves Christian and act this way? I'm in no way opening up any sort of discussion here, as I don't really care what Fred Phelps has to say or allow his "doctrine" to muddy the whole of Christianity in my eyes, but really...it's like a child molestor calling himself a friend of the children or a rapist calling himself a feminist. So much hate, so much vengence, so much evil...