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America’s Most Hated Family in Crisis (The Sequel)

A follow up to the 2006 documentary, The Most Hated Family In America, one of the most popular documentaries on Documentary Stream. Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas for another week-long visit with the family behind the Westboro Baptist Church. The Phelps family are still antagonizing communities with their offensive slogans and anti-gay posters. But [...]

April 10, 2011 Religion 1 Comment

The Fundamentalists

To most people the word “fundamentalism” conjures up images of terrorism. This documentary tells how this phenomenon, with its complex history, is rife in many of the world’s religions, and how its intention is to impose a single truth on a plural world. Mark Dowd travels across the world to trace the origins of fundamentalism [...]

July 24, 2010 Religion 1 Comment

The Most Hated Family in America

The Most Hated Family in America is a TV documentary written and presented by the BBC’s Louis Theroux about the family at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church. At the heart of the documentary is the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website GodHatesFags.com, [...]

July 24, 2010 Christianity 13 Comments

Did Darwin Kill God?

There are some who believe that Darwin’s theory of evolution has weakened religion, fueled in part by Richard Dawkins’ publishing phenomenon The God Delusion. Conor Cunningham argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Cunningham is a firm believer in the theory of evolution, but he is also a Christian. He believes that the [...]