RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 16, 2014 at 2:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2014 at 3:00 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(March 16, 2014 at 7:48 am)Esquilax Wrote: Personally I'm more interested in why he got excommunicated. Sounds like a fascinating tale of overreaction and petty weirdness to me. But then, the internal politics of backwards, insulated cults are often so interesting.
He lost his religion, first becoming a moderate Christian and then an atheist.
He spoke at the Rally for Reason about his deconversion experience and his pain at being cast out from his family.
Quote from the Rally for Reason speech, about when he made the shift from trying to find a moderate, more loving version of Christianity to atheism:
Nate Phelps Wrote:Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the skies of Manhattan. Even as the ashes and ruin of this horrific act of blind faith settled over New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, I watched people across the country scrambling to that same irrational altar for their answers. In the fierce storm of emotion that rolled across this country, one realization rose to the surface of my mind with blinding clarity: certainly this mechanism of unassailable blind faith is one of the greatest risks mankind faces today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Phelps
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