Gaze into the eyes of true fanatics...[SOAP BOX]

So I stumbled upon this yesterday, and it is one of the most depressing and frightening things I have ever seen.  It's a four-part BBC series where they go and interview members of the Westboro Baptist Church.  It can also be seen here.



Seeing such blind fanatiscm is frightening, it is beyond my comprehension how someone can so totally abandon reason.  Intellectually I understand how it occurs, how people who are desperate and afraid can turn to something so truly evil and not be aware of its nature.  To see it though is a completely different case.

Now to (hopefully) lighten the mood after that...I give you this final lesson (brought to you by memebase.com):