4/26/2008 - God hates the Netherlands. Or does He?

Last Monday there was an interesting coincidence on Belgian TV station Canvas. First an episode of Australian satire show The Chaser's War on Everything, which was then followed by a British documentary from Louis Theroux. Both shows touched on the subject of the Westboro Baptist Church. You know, the Phelpses, America's most hated family, who blame all of the world's mishaps on homosexuality, and who disrupt the funerals of young Americans who have fallen for their country. The only family whose sheer rightwingedness is too much even for Fox News. That lot. 

The Chaser gave a few links to their websites, and one of them intrigued me: godhatessweden.com. It's a piece of pure filth, and I don't recommend that anybody read it, but it got me wondering: does godhatethenetherlands.com, or indeed godhatesholland.com exist? The answer: no. At least not this past week, and not this morning. God hates Canada exists, as does God hates America, God hates Ireland, and God hates Mexico, but not God hates the Netherlands. I mean, we were the first country to give homosexuals full marriage rights, and we are one of very few countries where homosexual couples can adopt children. Doesn't Mr. Phelps know about it.

Still, I took upon myself the nauseating task of analyzing the hate sites, and came to this conclusion: the site God hates the Netherlands doesn't exist, because The Phelpses can't prove it. If he created the site now, he could not possibly prove that God hates us, and it would just make them look like idiots. On all the other sites, they call on natural disasters, and other instances from recent years when many people of a country have died, and in the case of Ireland there were the Catholic priests who did evil things to young boys, but what huge natural disaster, or even religious scandal, really hurt us, the past fifty years?

We've had our floods, but with hardly any loss of life. We have soldiers in Afghanistan, and we've been in Iraq, and even though lives were lost, the total death toll is pretty low. In the case of God hates Sweden they bring up the fact that 2000 Swedes lost their lives in the Asian tsunami. Dutch people too were affected by that, but the death toll was less than 10% of that of Sweden's.

Anyways, don't read their sites. It's just filth, pure and simple.

4/29/2008 - Do You Feel Leftout?

Don't worry. God probably hates you too. I just love religion :p

5/2/2008 - Damn' right!

Yes, I do feel left out. It's just plain offensive that the site doesn't exist. Almost as offensive as the site would have been if it did.