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A lot of people say that the WBC don't really believe in what they preach, and instead are trying to provoke people in order to make money through lawsuits. As someone who grew up in this environment, how do you respond to this claim?

EDIT: This is answered lower down, but since I'm higher up and more visible I figured I'd paste the answer in here:

The lawsuits happen. Their lawyers, their litigious as hell. But the lawsuits are only there as a way to intimidate and protect themselves. They sincerely believe what they are preaching. Well my father sincerely believes it...my siblings have been told to believe it. I see a difference.

The theology is Calvinism which centers around the doctrine of absolute predestination as you say. It's a twisted idea because it basically says we have no control over who we are or what we do, but we get all the consequences for it, temporal and eternal.

Yeah. Carrots are healthy, but I'm sure eating 1000 of them a week would fuck you up.

Death Magnetic was destroyed because of this.

Death Magnetic is the best thing Metallica have done years, but holy crap is it loud. You can hear the bass and snare drums fizzing to a really distracting extent. What a waste. :(