Inaugurating My Blog

I'm going to start out this blog by talking about the beloved Westboro Baptist Church people. Y'know the ones: "God Hates Fags", "Fags Doom Nations", "Thank God For Dead Soldiers" and the like.
Most recently, they made almost no noise at all by protesting the Obama Inauguration. They had flyers that said, predictably, "God Hates Obama."

So, that one doesn't make sense. On the one hand, they claim that God hates America and punished us with the World Trade Center attacks, etc., for our acceptance of homosexuality. On the other hand, God, they claim, hates Obama, but made him (presumably) the most powerful person on the planet.

Did His Omnipotence take a day off on election day? Or does he not care about political matters (which doesn't make sense in the first place, really, but let's entertain it for a moment), in which case, how could he hate a large political unit like, oh, let's say The United States of America?

One more point, a logical one, about these people. Over and over again in interviews, they claim they know they're on the right track with all of this hate speech because everyone hates them. The principle they appeal to? If you're doing the right thing, the world will hate you for it.

You're familiar, of course, with the conditional from classical logic? Sentences of the form: If it's a cat, then it's a mammal, or If A then B? If you have A, B follows. For example, if you have catness, mammalness follows, but it doesn't work the other way around. From mammalness, catness doesn't follow. If you have a mammal, it could be cat, but it could also be a dog, a whale, a bear, a human, etc. Which is structurally the direction they are applying their principle.

And, if the world hates you so much, why does it put you on so many talk shows? I think we secretly love these people. They're one of our favorite jokes.