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Title: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: DriftingCrow on March 20, 2014, 12:39:17 PM
Post by: DriftingCrow on March 20, 2014, 12:39:17 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/20/291909137/westboro-baptist-church-founder-rev-fred-phelps-dies?sc=tw
Mark Memmot, NPR News
The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., whose tiny Westboro Baptist Church has protested outside the funerals of fallen soldiers and celebrities to spread its views about homosexuality and abortion, has died, according to news reports. He was 84.
As NPR's Nathan Rott reports:
"Phelps made a name for himself by protesting military and high profile funerals. He'd wave hateful signs with members of his Westboro Baptist Church and proclaim that the U.S. was being punished for its tolerance of homosexuality."
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Mark Memmot, NPR News
The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., whose tiny Westboro Baptist Church has protested outside the funerals of fallen soldiers and celebrities to spread its views about homosexuality and abortion, has died, according to news reports. He was 84.
As NPR's Nathan Rott reports:
"Phelps made a name for himself by protesting military and high profile funerals. He'd wave hateful signs with members of his Westboro Baptist Church and proclaim that the U.S. was being punished for its tolerance of homosexuality."
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Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Calder Smith on March 20, 2014, 12:44:08 PM
Post by: Calder Smith on March 20, 2014, 12:44:08 PM
I'll try to be as "nice" as I can here.
This man was very hateful and very ignorant. I'm half happy he's dead and half feeling bad for his family. Even though he was a terrible human being, you still can't help to feel sad when someone dies.
This man was very hateful and very ignorant. I'm half happy he's dead and half feeling bad for his family. Even though he was a terrible human being, you still can't help to feel sad when someone dies.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Vicky on March 20, 2014, 12:52:20 PM
Post by: Vicky on March 20, 2014, 12:52:20 PM
In the news I got, his family is worse than he was. His FAMILY IS THE MAJORITY of the "congregation" and their voting dad "off the island" gives you a hint of what they must be like. Pity, no funeral for the rest of us to picket though.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Jill F on March 20, 2014, 01:19:34 PM
Post by: Jill F on March 20, 2014, 01:19:34 PM
Too bad the Westboro Batsh%t Cult didn't die with him. I assume he will have to be buried in an undisclosed location so his headstone isn't replaced by a toilet.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: VeryGnawty on March 20, 2014, 09:03:50 PM
Post by: VeryGnawty on March 20, 2014, 09:03:50 PM
Feeling bad for his family? Why? A lot of them are worse than he was.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Paige on March 20, 2014, 11:39:35 PM
Post by: Paige on March 20, 2014, 11:39:35 PM
Quote from: VeryGnawty on March 20, 2014, 09:03:50 PM
Feeling bad for his family? Why? A lot of them are worse than he was.
Not all though.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/son-leaves-americas-most_n_580857.html
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: gennee on March 21, 2014, 03:00:19 PM
Post by: gennee on March 21, 2014, 03:00:19 PM
Fred Phelps is gone but the church is still around to foment more hate.
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Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Jessica Merriman on March 21, 2014, 03:07:14 PM
Post by: Jessica Merriman on March 21, 2014, 03:07:14 PM
:icon_lemon: Sorry! Only picket sign I could find. Kind of appropriate though!
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Anatta on March 21, 2014, 08:50:06 PM
Post by: Anatta on March 21, 2014, 08:50:06 PM
Kia Ora,
::) So now the big question...Where's it to be -Fred's final resting place?(or as the saying goes "No rest for the wicked) So heaven or hell ? Was he doing god's work or the devil's ?
BTW I should add....If one "believes" in the devil, god, heaven and hell that is...
Metta Anatta :)
::) So now the big question...Where's it to be -Fred's final resting place?(or as the saying goes "No rest for the wicked) So heaven or hell ? Was he doing god's work or the devil's ?
BTW I should add....If one "believes" in the devil, god, heaven and hell that is...
Metta Anatta :)
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: MellowMoxxi on March 21, 2014, 10:46:30 PM
Post by: MellowMoxxi on March 21, 2014, 10:46:30 PM
I saw George Takei's comments on Fred Phelps' death earlier and thought they were well said
"Today, Mr. Phelps may have learned that God, in fact, hates no one. Vicious and hate-filled as he was, may his soul find the kind of peace through death that was so plainly elusive during his life."
and
"I take no solace or joy in this man's passing. We will not dance upon his grave, nor stand vigil at his funeral holding "God Hates Freds" signs, tempting as it may be.
He was a tormented soul, who tormented so many. Hate never wins out in the end. It instead goes always to its lonely, dusty end."
"Today, Mr. Phelps may have learned that God, in fact, hates no one. Vicious and hate-filled as he was, may his soul find the kind of peace through death that was so plainly elusive during his life."
and
"I take no solace or joy in this man's passing. We will not dance upon his grave, nor stand vigil at his funeral holding "God Hates Freds" signs, tempting as it may be.
He was a tormented soul, who tormented so many. Hate never wins out in the end. It instead goes always to its lonely, dusty end."
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Veronica M on March 21, 2014, 11:23:39 PM
Post by: Veronica M on March 21, 2014, 11:23:39 PM
I think I will be a better person than he was and say "Rest in Peace"... The rest is up to God at this point.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: dalebert on March 22, 2014, 11:45:49 AM
Post by: dalebert on March 22, 2014, 11:45:49 AM
Quote from: VeryGnawty on March 20, 2014, 09:03:50 PM
Feeling bad for his family? Why? A lot of them are worse than he was.
They excommunicated him from the church he started for not being mean enough.
I feel like we're all the product of our environments. It's very complicated. People are events just like a sunny day, a hurricane, or a typhoon; albeit we're far more elaborate. We happen, change the world around us in some way, and then end.
I see no point in addressing pain and suffering by causing more pain and suffering. I believe in just trying to stop the bad stuph, whatever that takes. I don't hope he's in Hell, even though I might joke about it (and I have (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,159360.msg1385770.html#msg1385770)). I don't believe in Hell.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: KatVonDoom on March 22, 2014, 11:52:42 AM
Post by: KatVonDoom on March 22, 2014, 11:52:42 AM
I wish him all the peace he bestowed upon our brothers and sisters in life.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Shantel on March 29, 2014, 10:02:48 AM
Post by: Shantel on March 29, 2014, 10:02:48 AM
A Russian reporter comments on the passing of Fred Phelps. There is something endearing about this woman reporter! ;D
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=815164561831327
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=815164561831327
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: dalebert on March 29, 2014, 10:42:44 AM
Post by: dalebert on March 29, 2014, 10:42:44 AM
Quote from: Shantel on March 29, 2014, 10:02:48 AM
A Russian reporter comments on the passing of Fred Phelps.
Well, we all mourn in our own ways--some of us with a case of the giggles.
EDIT: Someone in the comments who claims to understand Russian (I don't, so can't confirm) says she's actually talking about something else entirely than what the subtitles claim and that the story has nothing to do with Phelps.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Shantel on March 29, 2014, 10:50:09 AM
Post by: Shantel on March 29, 2014, 10:50:09 AM
Quote from: dalebert on March 29, 2014, 10:42:44 AM
Well, we all mourn in our own ways--some of us with a case of the giggles.
EDIT: Someone in the comments who claims to understand Russian (I don't, so can't confirm) says she's actually talking about something else entirely than what the subtitles claim and that the story has nothing to do with Phelps.
Huh? I wouldn't know either and just take it at face value, in any event it is a riot when taken as it appears.
Title: Re: Westboro Baptist Church Founder Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. Dies
Post by: Joelene9 on March 31, 2014, 01:21:03 PM
Post by: Joelene9 on March 31, 2014, 01:21:03 PM
It is a parody like those Hitler ones found on YouTube. I believe the commentor tha it is not the prop[er translation. I found no similar Russian-English words in that report.
Joelene
Joelene