Did the Westboro Baptist Church start out with someone mentally ill?

It was started by Fred Phelps, a lawyer with the genius notion of spewing hateful rhetoric at people in an effort to get them to retaliate so he can sue. That, I believe, is their true MO: money.

Possibly. The mentally ill are less capable of reasoning and therefore more vulnerable to believing irrational things like religion. The most religious person I know is my aunt, who has brain damage from a motorcycle accident.It's sad that people like her are ever exposed to religion at all, since they are defenseless against it.

THE WBC IS CRAZY AND WRONG. LET ME REPEAT THIS IN ALL CAPS: THE WBC IS CRAZY AND WRONG. NOTHING THEY SAY IS BIBLICALLY SUPPORTED.In fact the main message of the Bible is that YOU SHOULD LOVE EVERYONE and that GOD LOVES EVERYONE.

GOD DOES NOT HATE GAY PEOPLE. GOD LOVES GAYS.As a real Christian, I am SO ANGRY that the WBC exists (ha, can't you tell by the all caps? ).

Um yes but the same could be said for all religion and all churches.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.