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Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
#11
RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
Yeah, the excommunication has me curious. I'm sure it had more to do with internal politics than anything else, but it would be funny if it turned out to be dogmatic differences, like maybe one side just didn't hate fags enough for the other.
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
(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.

I have a little suspicion and it may have been a shrewd political move by his daughter to keep the church alive a little longer.

Specifically, I heard an interview with one of the former members of the church and one of the things they believe is that truly righteous people don't die a physical death; they simply asscend straight to heaven. If that's the case and Fred is getting up there in years, the church would either have to throw him under the bus or accept that their dogma is wrong because he isn't going to last much longer. It seems they chose to throw him under the bus.

Fortunately, the membership is limited to one little family and they're so unpopular that nobody really wants to join them. The younger generation seems to be leaving, one at a time. I'd be surprised if the group even exists in another ten or fifteen years.
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#13
RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
I hope so. But a 'little family'? There's like 80 members.
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
(March 16, 2014 at 8:55 am)Stimbo Wrote: Now that would be interesting.

What, I wonder, would the signs say?

"God Hates Fag Haters?" Seems unlikely.
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
(March 16, 2014 at 8:54 am)Insanity Wrote:
(March 16, 2014 at 7:57 am)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: I'm sure there will be some who will picket the venomous old cunt.

Probably the WBC themselves if he's been excommunicated.

What a strange group of people..

It would be hilarious to see the WBC picket the funeral of Fred Phelps. I wonder why he was excommunicated too. It's a real madhouse over there.
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#16
RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
To be honest, the Phelps clan - the ones that haven't been disowned - are such contradictory hate-filled sacks of shit that just about the only point they agree on is that they hate everybody, on behalf of their god of course. That they feed on their own is both unsurprising and on record.
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#17
RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
True of all religions...to one degree or another.
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#18
RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
If it truly exists I hope the old prick rots in hell.

Goodbye you piece of shit.

I'll be having a drink to celebrate you leaving the planet, the same way I did bin Laden.
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
You did bin Laden?

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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
(March 16, 2014 at 2:26 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You did bin Laden?

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Quote mining?

Are you a creationist?

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