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Margie Phelps, a leader of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, today announced that they would be picketing Steve Jobs' funeral. How did she make the announcement? VIA HER IPHONE!!!!
casual male: I said "hypocrisy" because that's what it IS. In this case, they are using the very technology they profess to condemn; that's NOT irony, that's hypocrisy.
casual male again: "smelly idiot"??? I am cut to the quick by your rapier wit.
THAT, my boy, is SARCASM.
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- fireflyLv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
IRONY is sarcasm, mockery, satire so irony doesn’t fit this scenario. Hypocrisy does. It goes even beyond that, though. Phelps is attempting to apply a double standard using the very thing she is condemning to promote her personal agenda and that of her church. Phelps wrote that "Westboro will picket his funeral. He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin." In a subsequent tweet, Phelps wrote of Jobs: "No peace for man who served self, not God."
Since when is it Phelps’ job to punish the dead? And here I thought that was exclusively in God’s realm of power. Worse yet, she is also going to punish his living relatives with her self-righteousness by disrupting their grieving. By seeking to elevate herself with this kind of mean spirited publicity and nasty rhetoric, she has fallen into her own pit of self-glorification.
- Anonymous10 years ago
These people spend a quarter of a million dollars a year protesting everything. Hypocrisy doesn't even begin to describe the Westboro Baptist Church. Doesn't God say 'Love they neighbour?'
- Anonymous10 years ago
That is not hypocrisy, that is irony.
Angela: You said its "hypocrisy" because in this case you're a smelly idiot that doesn't understand the concepts of 'irony' or 'hypocrisy', nor do you know when to apply them correctly.
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- 10 years ago
http://ea1ed725.linkbucks.com/ anyone who is a follower and believes in what she says and what this website spreads and shares...will suffer in hell if god is real. i hope they all have a painful miserable, slow death.
- Anonymous10 years ago
She is just an attention whore!
- Anonymous10 years ago
Why would they want to do that please?