There are less than 50 members in the Westboro church, mostly one extended family.
The media talks as if they are a significant part of christianity
At barest margins of marginal, once it goes off the edges -- it's no longer [even] barely marginal.
Inductive reasoning does have it's pitfalls.
Deliberately poor sampling is assault upon reason itself...
That doesn't matter though, when agenda-drivers, who's most comfortable habits tend toward remote control seek and destroy mission played from the relative safety of organizational self-identity "we are the good guys", and everyone else -- not so much (and/or not at all) need convenient (and powerless) figurative whipping boys to be continually demonized (while bashing them boys) for furtherance of the preferred self-identity narrative.
It's much easier, and more lip-smackingly satisfying to be able to shortcut having to make an actual argument from reason.
Here be dragons. It's why I'm so blue? Or is that colorin' just accumulated old bruises? Could be worse, of course...
But just wow, God is such a stranger to so-o many of us (humans) generally...so it seems, to me. It's like they can only see Him off in the distance (if looking His direction at all) barely recognize Him when they do look, and don't seem to realize they are either sheep, or else goats (if not wolves). Some stupid idiots think they are butterflies.
The WBC is a calculated get rich via violation of 1A rights lawsuits scheme. Their leader is an attorney with Dem roots.
And the Left in general, going well beyond the media, paints them as if they were a significant part of Christianity, which the clearly are not. And those same Leftists generally refuse to see the evidence of the above, since it destroys their narrative about the WBC somehow representing mainstream Christians in their actions.
https://twitter.com/meganphelps/status/838791141126451200
“If I could add a 5th point to my TED talk, it’d be:
(5) Take heart. You may not be THE one to change a mind…but you can help turn the tide.”