I Guess We Aren't the World Any More

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A lot of people probably remember that collaborative musical project in 1985 that resulted in the widespread release of the song "We Are the World," a saccharine paean to goodness, wholesomeness, and probably some other long-forgotten values of the 1950s. Regardless of what you may think of the musical quality of that particular song, it was effective in raising over $50 million for African famine relief, so while it may also have been responsible for spawning a series of increasingly irritating B-list musician copycat projects, it was a political and humanitarian success.

Clearly fueled by the same "Christian" motivations of helping those less fortunate and encouraging others to do the same, the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, the same organization that is planning on demonstrating at Virginia Tech funerals that it is America's acceptance of homosexuality that caused the shootings, have decided to echo Michael Jackson's and Lionel Richie's sentiments in recording "We Are the World" by releasing their own version. The message is not quite the same as the original, even if the tune may be.


"God Hates the World" is guaranteed to top Billboard's charts of the most popular American music with its broad appeal to everyone. Well, actually, that's not particularly likely, in fact it really doesn't appeal to almost anyone except the other brainwashed members of the congregation. But it's a sobering reminder that outlandish religious extremism and eschatology as a fetish are not limited to any particular religious group, and are doing just fine in our own back yard.

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