‘The wrath of God on children of disobedience’

The arrival of pandemic diseases (of which COVID-19 is the latest, but not likely to be last) could understood, along with impending ecological disaster and global warming, major existential threats envisioned by, facing, our contemporary culture. This article focuses on use made theme in theology ideology Westboro Baptist Church – a Calvinist Primitive church founded Topeka, Kansas 1950s by Fred Phelps Sr (1929–2014). While numerically small, has become infamous through its practice picketing funerals, been characterized as hate group espousing antisemitic anti-LGBTQ positions. Through reading analysis sermons other published materials from Church, maps motif it used whose members perceive themselves heralds an angry God.