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[/After tales of defections, Louis Theroux investigates what's up with America's most hated family.
There are names I've been called in the course of making documentaries, but to be described as "one of the chief workers of iniquity in the whole history of man" takes some beating.
The man making the claim for me - which was somehow offensive and weirdly flattering at the same time - was Steve Drain, a member of the ultra-strict and very notorious Westboro Baptist Church. He went on to say I was on a par with Pontius Pilate.
I'd earned my special status by filming a documentary about his unique religious community in 2006. Entitled "The Most Hated Family in America", it followed a three-week stay I made among the Kansas-based Phelps clan.
Under the guidance of their angry pastor, the Phelps have arrived at the idea that the only biblical practice for Christians in our age is to carry placards with unbelievably offensive anti-gay slogans ("Fags in Hell", "Fags Eat Poop", and so on) and turn up at high-profile funerals, especially those of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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and this bit was quite intetresting
For the broad mass of humanity to go to hell, they must have first been exposed to the gospel and failed to heed it. Our programme had been seen by millions around the world. In my own way, I had a part in the divine plan. And so I'd made my way back to Zion, as they like to call their block of houses on a suburban street in Topeka, for a week-long stay.
The emphasis on the end-time scenario turned out to be entirely real. Obama "fits all the descriptors" of the Beast, apparently. The scenario of Jesus's return, as described to me, went like this: the Phelps would win their Supreme Court case; the nation would rise up and force the Phelps to leave America; they'd go to live in Jerusalem; 144,000 Jews would convert to Christianity (this was my favourite part of the prediction, given the Phelps' track record of anti-Semitism); then Jesus would come back.
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LEVEL-HEADED Louis Theroux is ready to return to the lighter side of life - after finally being caught on camera losing his rag.
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But after years of keeping his cool with crystal meth addicts, neo-Nazis and murderers, BBC2 viewers will see him snap on Sunday when he revisits America's most hated family, the Phelps.
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Louis revisited them in Topeka, Kansas, US, after discovering several fed-up family members had left - and found their abhorrent views have got even WORSE.
He said: "There's a more barbed, emotional and tense tone to the encounter.
"They have ramped up their views - and it got heated. They played a propaganda film that played fast and loose with swastikas and caricatures of Jewish people.
Source - The Sun
i think louis theroux is a great guy but definatly a snake in the grass