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qara_isuke in ontd_political

Ex-communicated Fred Phelps near death

Mar 16, 2014 09:20

TOPEKA, Kan. - Anti-gay extremist Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and the “Gods Hate Fags” fundamentalist movement, is near death in a local hospice, according to a Facebook post Saturday night by his son Nathan Phelps.

( Destroyed by the monster he made. )

!breaking news, social media, scumbags, *trigger warning: homophobia, westboro baptist church, evil, homophobia, god save us from your followers

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bnmc2005 March 16 2014, 16:00:04 UTC

A completely hateful and abusive fuck dies alone? Not one bit surprised.

Notice this didn't come from the active "Church" members- they're probably not even going to acknowlege his death. And I would be VERY shocked if a funeral is even announced- cowards and sanctimonious bullies they are.

Not ONE once of empathy for this man. NOT ONE.

I hope the GLBT community comes together on his death- they don't have to celebrate his death but there needs to be a mass catharsis and re-celebration of the value of OUR LIVES in the GLBT community in Kanas and rigth about now is a great time to do it.

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mercystars March 16 2014, 16:37:07 UTC

that would be ~meta~ as the kids say

silver_apples March 16 2014, 17:11:46 UTC

I'd rather people show the man and the family the respect they didn't give others (not in the sense of respecting Phelps for who he was, but respecting them as people going through a hard time). Be the better person and let the family grieve in peace. Picketing the funeral won't make Westboro realize the error of their ways, it will only give them justification to picket others.

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astridmyrna March 16 2014, 16:11:39 UTC

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pachakuti March 16 2014, 16:14:47 UTC

A church essentially based entirely around your own special personality cult.

How... how does that happen?

bnmc2005 March 16 2014, 16:22:53 UTC

I think the head spokesperson for the Church now is his daughter, Shirley.

One of his older kids- that left the church- accused Papa Phelps of abuse. This development lends credence to those accusations. It's not a stretch to imagine him as an abusive father that caused problems as the kids grew older and had their own kids.

( ETA : because I can't type.)

martyfan March 16 2014, 18:11:10 UTC

I read a theory that it's not a "real" excommunication, it's some kind of way for them to get out of being responsible for his medical bills. Not sure how realistic of a theory that is, but it makes more sense than anything else I can come up with.

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lisasimpsonfan March 16 2014, 16:31:52 UTC

I wonder if they will picket Papa's funeral?

Some more info... bnmc2005 March 16 2014, 16:34:24 UTC

I just got off the phone with Nate and he confirmed what he had written. The rumors had been flying for several weeks, he said, but after a conversation with some of his fellow “excommunicated” family members, he found out that the rumors were true. He elaborated on that final line, too, saying that the Phelps family is now blocking anyone who is no longer with the church from seeing him, including Fred’s sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews ( ... )

Re: Some more info... qara_isuke March 16 2014, 17:23:08 UTC

Thanks for sharing.

I can definitely understand a little how Nate feels, in that even if your father is the shittest human being on the face of the planet.....he's still your father. And I think most people, deep down inside, do have that sadness for what could have been and/or that longing for that relationship with an estranged parent.

At the end of the day, he's still a father and a grandfather. But the ugliness inside him, that he encouraged in his family, has destroyed them. The ones that stay are monsters, and the ones that get kicked out or leave are left to pick up the pieces. It's so incredibly sad.

Re: Some more info... nesmith March 16 2014, 17:32:37 UTC

I've never understood that whole idea of "he might be a heartless evil monster but he's still my father" thing. If my father was Fred Phelps I'd have turned my back on him totally a long time ago. I've known people who have totally shut out parents or other family members for a LOT less.

Re: Some more info... rex_dart March 16 2014, 20:44:43 UTC

Nate doesn't have contact with him, but cutting someone out of your life is NOT AT ALL the same as not caring that they're dying.

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sio March 16 2014, 16:40:57 UTC

personally, i could care less that the fake Reverend is close to death. his brand of disgusting bullshit has caused countless innocent people pain and he deserves every bit of it thrown back in his face a billion times over.

(as i believe) he's going to have a lovely, nasty surprise waiting for him when the moment comes and he finds out that his hypocrite brand of hate earned him a one-way ticket to Hell.

i'd like to hope that with the snake's head dead, the rest of the cult will eventually collapse, but i suppose we will see after it happens.

spyral_out March 17 2014, 21:27:02 UTC

I read a story in an AP English class called "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," in which a devout Catholic dies and realizes she's completely alone and has nothing to look forward to now that she has "passed on." I was raised Christian, and it startled me at the time that there could ever be nothing after death. It just wasn't even an option in my mind then; it would be one or the other.

Now I'm an atheist, and I wish for nothing more for him than that he'll die and nothing will follow. Not even hell. Just nothing. Though I hope he is conscious enough for long enough to realize that his vitriol was all for naught.