Fred Phelps about to (hopefully) kick the bucket?

Destination · 17 Mar 2014 at 10:28

I must admit, i do not think I had ever heard his name before.
I've heard of the Church, but neverr the mans name, or certainly not in any way that registered.

If asked who he was I would have guessed it was Michael 'pee in the pool's dad.

Guerrilla · 17 Mar 2014 at 10:29

Horrible man.

Sliver · 17 Mar 2014 at 10:30

Hikari Kisugi said:
I must admit, i do not think I had ever heard his name before.
I've heard of the Church, but neverr the mans name, or certainly not in any way that registered.

If asked who he was I would have guessed it was Michael 'pee in the pool's dad.

Here's a taster taken from one of two documentaries which Louis Theroux made.

Destination · 17 Mar 2014 at 10:32

Oh no, I know what and who they are, but his name is no recognisable to me.
Anyway hardly matters, 'merica.

Theophany · 17 Mar 2014 at 10:33

robgmun said:
Oh i whole heartedly agree, but i got suspended for speaking my mind

I think there's a marked difference between speaking ill of a recently deceased union leader and speaking ill of an allegedly soon to be deceased preacher of hate. However much you may have disagreed with Bob Crow's politics, he did think he was doing the right thing for the people he represented. Fred Phelps, on the other hand, has spent his life forcing a particularly vile level of negativity on certain groups of people that are contrary to the teachings of the religious text he has misappropriated for his hateful cause.

One would expect you'd be safe speaking ill in this thread as there is quite literally bugger all positive that can be said about the man. Even his own family appear to despise him, let alone the church he founded.

Longbow · 17 Mar 2014 at 11:00

Omaeka said:
I hope it's painful, like cancer of the scrotum or something, and possibly contagious so it infects the rest of his ilk. Ugly, inbred, useless, backwards troglodytes the lot of em.

The irony.

Squark said:
His cult has done nothing but harm to people's impression and understanding of God, the Bible and genuine Christianity.

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

They seem to have understood that part of the bible very well.

ElliorR · 17 Mar 2014 at 11:05

But these fundamentalists seem to very selective of the verses they go mental about and believe to be the true word of god and ignore the laws of the land. How many of these people follow Exodus 21:7 to the letter? And not the sanitised versions of now, but the versions where the word slavery is used.

Actually quite a few I bet.

Longbow · 17 Mar 2014 at 11:35

ElliorR said:
But these fundamentalists seem to very selective of the verses.

The bible contradicts itself everywhere, so you have to be selective.

Cleisthenes · 17 Mar 2014 at 12:04

Columbo said:
On a totally different point the Louis Theroux programs on the Phelps family were fantastic and well worth a watch.

True.

olivier renault · 17 Mar 2014 at 13:54

My father, the hate preacher: Nate Phelps on escaping Westboro Baptist Church

I don't wish anything on the guy or his family. He's an *******, "that is his crime, it is also his punishment".

Schlong&Stable · 17 Mar 2014 at 14:16

And yet people chuckling at Bob Crowes demise got suspended? o_O

Theophany · 17 Mar 2014 at 14:19

Thompson_NCL said:
And yet people chuckling at Bob Crowes demise got suspended? o_O

gillywibble · 17 Mar 2014 at 14:23

Omaeka said:
I hope it's painful, like cancer of the scrotum or something, and possibly contagious so it infects the rest of his ilk. Ugly, inbred, useless, backwards troglodytes the lot of em.

Irony.

Fido McNasty · 17 Mar 2014 at 14:34

I didn't like him alive but this outrage of a person is one of the very few I have to prefer gone. His cabin fever mindset was/is an up yours to life.