somewhere near the beginning.

The etymology of the word fag

Filed under: General — Alex @ 2:24 pm 2/21/2007

… is surprisingly elegant: we already know it is a contraction of the word faggot, as in the chunks of wood used to burn witches at the stake, etc. But apparently, the fire being referred to is the wrath of God:

… “FAGS” as the contraction of faggots, fueling the fires of God’s wrath …

Makes a twisted, amusing kind of sense. Is this website a joke? It seems serious, but with a domain name like godhatesfags.com, the unrelentingly vitrolic introductory material, and statements like

“GOD HATES FAGS” — though elliptical — is a profound theological statement, which the world needs to hear more than it needs oxygen, water and bread.

it comes across more as an Onion-like parody than anything else.

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