Merged Fred Phelps nearly dead/Is dead.

ApolloGnomon said:
Try reading this and tell us how how you feel after.
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/atohate.htm
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To chip in... I honestly don't think that anything in it would change my opinion of the man. But then, I thought that he was a terrible, terrible person anyways, who probably was getting away with things that should be severely punished in a fairer world. With that said, I really don't personally care about him at all and don't let him either affect my life or take up practically any of my time thinking about him except when he's directly brought to my attention. I also think that that likely is the best revenge against an attention-seeker like he and his church seems to be.
 
ApolloGnomon said:
I'm having trouble reconciling the supposed reason for excommunication with the man described in the article. We don't have all the facts.
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The excommunication was a result of a internal power struggle within the Westboro Baptist Church,not because of any real theological difference.
Apparently some of the heirs apparenent to the throne thought the Old King was taking too long to die.
 
dudalb said:
The excommunication was a result of a internal power struggle within the Westboro Baptist Church,not because of any real theological difference.
Apparently some of the heirs apparenent to the throne thought the Old King was taking too long to die.
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He tried taking a lesson from King Lear* -- don't parcel out your kingdom until the will is read at your funeral. But then usurpers pushed him out anyway. Ah well.

* A similar tale is told, to great effect, in the Émile Zola novel La Terre.
 
COLONEL said:
Also when he is finally dead we can get Sylvia Brown to contact him and ask him how he likes being in hell ? :D:D
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That's going to be tricky, because Sylvia Brown is already booked to be part of the welcoming committee that will greet him as he arrives.
 
I feel bad for the other patients at the hospice. Not only are they dying, but they gotta die with him there.
 
It's kind of a poetic ending, the more I think about it. After sowing hate for decades, Phelps will die alone - isolated even from the cult that he started.
 
Mods - can we change the thread title to
"Not merely nearly dead but really most sincerely dead"?
Thanx
 
I'm won't celebrate his death, either.

However, the next time I happen to be driving through Kansas, I might have to stop and take a pee break.
 
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