gigwise.com — This is just sick. The notorious Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas is gearing up to protest at Dio's memorial service in Hollywood on May 30th as they claim he is a “Satan worshipper / enabler” who “encourages violence”.
May 21, 2010 View in Crawl 4
amazingsteveMay 22, 2010
Angry, grieving Metalheads to beat the s**t out of Westboro Baptist Church members at Dio's funeral.
venom8599May 22, 2010
It's all just because Fred Phelps is some kind of twisted sociopath. Earlier on in one of the comments is a link to a post from his son Nate's website. He ran away from home the second he turned 18. It's quite an interesting read, and it even gave me some direct insight. You can see what his son says about him is true just by looking at this "list of sins" he writes up. The church only really seems to exist to satisfy Phelps' delusions and ego. It's not really about the religion at all. In fact if it plays any part at all I think it's just that deep down inside Phelps thinks that he is god.
hydesMay 22, 2010
well Oderus already called out their god and specifically stated "don't send in Jesus, hes only a man"
dividebyoMay 22, 2010
p13t3rm; you are a sad, sad individual... see, that was something called a joke, please just move along now.
murrayc1968May 23, 2010
Those f**king Westboro idiots should check out Dio's legacy before they start spewing' their s**t: <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0</a>Devil worshipper indeed.
Closed AccountMay 23, 2010
Why do press, or even people on Digg bother talking about them/covering them? They're a group of like 12 people with fax machines who send out press releases and make big signs. Get real.
blackfoot66May 27, 2010
Ronnie James DIO will live on thru his music and are hearts, he was definately The MASTER OF METAL, and an awesome vocalist. That being said don't think that the WBC represents the majority of christians out there. I am a christian and Love my GOD with all my heart. Shame on this twisted church for protesting, judgement will fall on them for missrepresenting GODS' WORD. I have personally met with many MASTERS OF METAL and most of them are awesome individuals with a better understang of GOD than the WBC wether they live for GOD or not is there choice we are not to judge!!! I for appreciate the music and the MAN Ronnie James Dio, as well as many others, Alice Cooper Ozzy, Etc... And I thank GOD for them and their talent
gemfinderJun 2, 2010
Update:They showed up. It was pathetic. Twelve initially, dwindled to three by the time the service started. The signs were equally pathetic and WTF? "Dio is in Hell," "You're Going to Hell!," and "God Brought the Oil."Across the street, someone had a sign that said, "Thor is going to melt your God in Muslim Hell!" [laughter] I gave that guy the Horns salute :)The Westboro people were thoroughly intimidated. No children, thankfully. But it turned out to be a lot of chest-pounding on their part, with virtually no teeth. These people are toothless and beneath contempt. They're NOTHING, and their words count for NOTHING.