RIP (?) Fred Phelps

[heyabbott]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

He's Dead

 

[Starman]

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[Mizzougrad96]

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There's a special level of hell reserved for anyone who would protest any funeral.

 

[forever_town]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

As one of the people his brood's "preaching" affects personally, I've been thinking and writing a lot of thoughts about Phelps. For the majority of you who aren't on my Facebook, here is the status update I just wrote:

I've been thinking a lot about the legacy that Rev. Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, leaves behind now that he's dead. I can't take joy in the fact that he's dead, but I'm not shedding any tears either.

He was a hateful, spiteful man who did so much evil in the name of false testimony to his god, but I can't help thinking that celebrating his death, whether it be protesting his funeral or dancing on his grave would lower us to his and his minions' levels. We don't need to demonstrate the level of hyprocrisy in our lives he did by couching his actions in "the bible" by celebrating the end of his life.

I'm not asking anyone to forgive him or absolve him of anything. I'm not asking people to show him the dignity in death that he denied so many others in life. I'm asking people to rise above the hatred he leaves behind as his legacy. We are all better than that. We all should shine a much brighter light in our worlds.

I'm skeptical about whether or not there is an afterlife or a heaven or a hell. I'm confident that if there is, he will get the justice he deserves. That's more than enough.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

He may be one of the worst people (at least from this country) in recent memory.

 

[qtlaw]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

Most powerful thing society can do in this situation is ignore him from this point forward. Scorn is good retribution.

 

[forever_town]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

They say the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. Perhaps that's what we should be feeding him and his brood from here on.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

He's Dead

Cross him off then.

 

[Starman]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

The WBC could probably make some good coin by placing a porta-potty over his grave and charging money to take a ****/dump on him. I'd pay $5 to give him a good hosing-down.

:D :D :D :D

 

[DeskMonkey1]

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So looking forward to tomorrow's New York Post hedline

 

[old_tony]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

Can we get a title change for the thread reflecting he's dead? I'd suggest something like "BIH Fred Phelps." (That's Burn in Hell, btw)

 

[Starman]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

I guess that's up to Hondo, wherever he is.

 

[forever_town]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

Can we get a title change for the thread reflecting he's dead? I'd suggest something like "BIH Fred Phelps." (That's Burn in Hell, btw)

Before my better sense took over, I would have made my Facebook status, "R.I.H. Fred Phelps" for Rot In Hell.

 

[Double J]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

He's Dead

Cross him off then.

Solid.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Re: Fred Phelps near death, also ex-communicated

Fifty-four grandchildren.
A rotten harvest.

 

[kingcreole]

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Surely I'm not the only one who thinks that ol' Freddie had a (for lack of a better term) gay experience at some point in his life.

 

[YankeeFan]

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WBC held their first protest since Phelp's death yesterday, and were met by counter-protestors:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/westboro-baptist-church-lorde-concert-sorry-for-your-loss

 

[YankeeFan]

Even the Phelpses’ own neighborhood — most of them live in a small, fenced-in compound around the church, with an upside-down American flag and signs warning of impending doom — is changing.

“I’ve watched more and more members leave the church, and have watched it deteriorate,” said Davis Hammet, a 23-year-old from Florida who, with other members of a small organization called Planting Peace, last year bought the gray house across the street from the Phelps compound in Topeka, painted it in rainbow colors, surrounded it with rainbow flags and moved in. Now he greets members of the Phelps family as they take out the trash, and has even invited them over — an invitation they have declined.

“We want to dismantle this hate group by overwhelming them with love,” Mr. Hammet said.

nyti.ms/1exYHk6

 

[Sea Bass]

He's Dead

Cross him off then.

Solid.

Was this the guy the Yankees got for Jay Buhner?

 

[Mark2010]

This idiot and his followers CAN NOT ARRIVE IN HELL SOON ENOUGH for my thinking. Waiting for death's door to open wide here, folks.

Haters gonna hate. What's ironic is when haters start hating the haters. It's sort of like watching a game where both teams are wearing the same color of jerseys.