Russel brand and the Westboro baptist church

toastedpickles · 10-08-2013 12:59AM #1

Well this is interesting, what do you lovely honest people think? This can only end well.....
These two lovely men are talking through their holes of you ask me, but there you go
Anyways, here's the interview

Vito Corleone · 10-08-2013 12:59AM

The video is quite old.

Not Brands biggest fan but he deals with them well tbf.

Femme_Fatale · 10-08-2013 01:00AM

I don't think they can be reasoned with. I do believe the children within the church are a concern for child welfare authorities.

NegativeCreep · 10-08-2013 01:02AM

Russel Brand is hilarious :L

Amirani · 10-08-2013 01:03AM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I don't think they can be reasoned with. I do believe the children within the church are a concern for child welfare authorities.

Agreed. Just this church though?

hfallada · 10-08-2013 01:08AM

Who gives a ****? The church has like 30 members and pickets the odd funeral etc etc. While many large Christian churches in America spread hate against the gays, the Muslims and the black but no one thinks twice as its the norm in the south.

Take the mormon church which follow the book of mormon. Which is book written by a nut job. But yet it has over 4 million followers (mainly in Utah) who were responsible for banning gay marriage in California for no reason other than being hateful. No one questions the actions of the church as its "legitimate Christian religion".

Logic and religion generally don't go in the same sentence

Vincent Vega · 10-08-2013 01:23AM

I don't buy them at all.

I honestly believe they just deliberately stir up extreme controversy in the hope of provoking aggression and assault in the land of the lawsuit.

Mardy Bum · 10-08-2013 01:27AM

Initially I thought Russell Brand was a vacuous idiot. Over the past year or two he has come across as a very intelligent fella who cultivated his whole "vacuous idiot" persona as a means of becoming famous which makes him even more intelligent because he did it perfectly. He used to be the one interviewing people, now he gets interviewed.

Jester252 · 10-08-2013 01:31AM

Fair play to Brand to holds back and even clams down the audience who are angry toward the WBC members. He let them have their say

RikkFlair · 10-08-2013 01:33AM

Google Louis Therouxs documentary about them, well worth watching.

Karl Stein · 10-08-2013 01:42AM

What's up with this 'I love you' bullshit?

That's biblical weirdness that is. Love thine enemy and all that bollocksology.

Get ****ed enemy - the only language you understand is a boot in the hole.

unkel · 10-08-2013 01:52AM

Great watch, toastedpickles, thanks for sharing. Your man Brand has gone up in my estimation by a few steps

Maximus Alexander · 10-08-2013 01:55AM

I love a bit of Russell Brand, very funny and deceptively intelligent.

statesaver · 10-08-2013 01:57AM

Don't know who i hate more Russel Brand or the Westboro baptist church.

Will have to think about that one

KyussBishop · 10-08-2013 02:01AM

hfallada wrote: »

Who gives a ****? The church has like 30 members and pickets the odd funeral etc etc. While many large Christian churches in America spread hate against the gays, the Muslims and the black but no one thinks twice as its the norm in the south.

Take the mormon church which follow the book of mormon. Which is book written by a nut job. But yet it has over 4 million followers (mainly in Utah) who were responsible for banning gay marriage in California for no reason other than being hateful. No one questions the actions of the church as its "legitimate Christian religion".

Logic and religion generally don't go in the same sentence

In fairness, it's worth giving a shít because of their kids - growing up in a family that fúcked up, getting brainwashed into wasting their childhood and adult lives following that nonsense, and being coerced into sticking with the family or being 100% completely cut off from them if they leave (which then risks being semi-traumatic/messes-them-up for those who do get to leave, harming their future lives even after - I know people harmed long-term, from far less extreme religious belief).

I don't get why people hate the family so much (ok I do :P but..), without seeing just how screwed up and coerced/brainwashed most of them are, and seeing that many of them need serious help, and that hating them actually is beneficial to fred and the others manipulating (consciously or not) the family, by helping keep the family isolated from the outside world, and thus held together.

I would say a good portion of them are probably potentially perfectly fine people, if they got away and were 'deprogrammed', but are manipulated into believing total nonsense, and are too fearful to leave.

AngeGal · 10-08-2013 02:02AM

The 'church' is essentially one extended family with maybe ten or fifteen others. A number of their younger high profile members have left in the last couple of years, including two granddaughters of the founder IIRC. It seems bizarre to me that such an organisation qualifies for tax exempt status.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 10-08-2013 02:03AM

It's an old enough clip.

Like shooting fish in a barrel, I kinda like Brand but this is nothing more than wheeling out the crazies to try to garner viewers and demonstrate to a US audience how cool he is for his new (gone now) show.

He actually kinda failed in the US, he's back doing stand up now fairly successfully and I think he's actually quite funny.

Czarcasm · 10-08-2013 02:18AM

Why do the WBC get any attention at all? Doesn't this sort of stuff only encourage them?

Rosy Posy · 10-08-2013 02:25AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Why do the WBC get any attention at all? Doesn't this sort of stuff only encourage them?

Exactly, I'm sure they went home from that patting themselves on the back for a job well done at spreading their message to all the sinners that watch the show.

IMO these people are the lowest of the low- they picket soldiers' funerals ffs. They preach love but their actions only speak of hate. They shouldn't be given any airtime and should have their poor children taken into care.

But in saying that they're so out there that they do make for compelling viewing so will probably continue to surface from time to time.

1ZRed · 10-08-2013 02:30AM

Did his tshirt say priestsrapekids.com?

Well at least they're gonna be making a few quick bucks out of the scandals while they can

Ave Sodalis · 10-08-2013 02:31AM

I love that video! It's worth noting what Russell Brand has done since, such as speaking with the Dalai Lama, standing up against politicians in the wrong and so on. Perhaps not before, but he certainly has become a much more openminded, conscious individual.

Da Shins Kelly · 10-08-2013 02:41AM

People need to stop giving that church airtime. They thrive off the publicity. Any attention is good attention.

1ZRed · 10-08-2013 02:49AM

Their website is 'godhatesfags'. I read one of their slogans too; "we turned America over to the fags, now they're coming home in body bags". That was in relation to 9 soldiers who died in combat, they "thanked god" and pray for 9,000 more -which they will picket!

These fuckers are seriously missing a screw and are dangerous

Had to laugh at one thing though, the retards want the death penalty brought back for sodomy. I wonder do the gobshítes realise it's not just men who like to butt fuck each other..

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-08-2013 02:55AM

1ZRed wrote: »

Their website is 'godhatesfags'. I read one of their slogans too; "we turned America over to the fags, now they're coming home in body bags". That was in relation to 9 soldiers who died in combat, they "thanked god" and pray for 9,000 more -which they will picket!

These fuckers are seriously missing a screw and are dangerous

Had to laugh at one thing though, the retards want the death penalty brought back for sodomy. I wonder do the gobshítes realise it's not just men who like to butt fuck each other..

Logic seems to be lost and a lot of their arguments are inconsistent with past declarations they've made. Fag enablers is another term they have for heterosexual people who don't oppose homosexuality.

Karl Stein · 10-08-2013 03:00AM

1ZRed wrote: »

"we turned America over to the fags, now they're coming home in body bags".

These freaks are all about failing miserably at bridging gigantic crevasses in logic.

I think we should be pleased about just how fucking moronic they make themselves look.

WhatNowForUs? · 10-08-2013 03:02AM

So we should never try to rectify unless its the absolute worst.

spankysue · 10-08-2013 03:03AM

"The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen!" LOL

WhatNowForUs? · 10-08-2013 03:04AM

hfallada wrote: »

Who gives a ****? The church has like 30 members and pickets the odd funeral etc etc. While many large Christian churches in America spread hate against the gays, the Muslims and the black but no one thinks twice as its the norm in the south.

Take the mormon church which follow the book of mormon. Which is book written by a nut job. But yet it has over 4 million followers (mainly in Utah) who were responsible for banning gay marriage in California for no reason other than being hateful. No one questions the actions of the church as its "legitimate Christian religion".

Logic and religion generally don't go in the same sentence

so we should never

Grayson · 10-08-2013 08:08AM

hfallada wrote: »

Who gives a ****? The church has like 30 members and pickets the odd funeral etc etc. While many large Christian churches in America spread hate against the gays, the Muslims and the black but no one thinks twice as its the norm in the south.

Take the mormon church which follow the book of mormon. Which is book written by a nut job. But yet it has over 4 million followers (mainly in Utah) who were responsible for banning gay marriage in California for no reason other than being hateful. No one questions the actions of the church as its "legitimate Christian religion".

Logic and religion generally don't go in the same sentence

Mormons aren't christians. And if you say that in front of them they get really really pissed off.

MadsL · 10-08-2013 08:24AM

"Don't feed the WBC Troll" should be a plaque on every media editor's desk. Has the internet taught us nothing?

jd007 · 10-08-2013 08:33AM

Russel brand and the Westboro baptist church

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