I highly doubt he'll make it to where he thinks he'll be. The hate, the nastiness, the spitefulness, the truly wickedness that this family creates will likely give them a shock when each one reaches their end. They're an absolute vile group. Their children sometimes get hurt when they're preaching in the street and the head ones don't even bother to have the youngsters removed. They're the complete opposite to what they make themselves out to be.
I don't know why people are laughing and enjoying this so much.
He's 84 years old. He's had a long life. And he'll be remembered.
For all we know the excommunication business could all just be another WBC publicity stunt. Who knows if these people even believe in God. I know they believe in money. His family are probably toasting his death and his life behind the scenes. People leave the church because they get tired of the charade and want to move onto other things not because they have a crisis of "faith" or because they're disillusioned. They're quite the performers and they have a global audience that loves to lap it up.
I would love to know why? Even his ex-communicated son wont say why.
I'm not sure his son would know, as I believe he's been disowned by the family since leaving the church. He is also still estranged from Phelps Sr. as far as I know. That is of course if it's true that when members leave or are ex-communicated, they actually do lose contact with the remaining members rather than it just being presented like that to the public.
I don't know why people are laughing and enjoying this so much.
He's 84 years old. He's had a long life. And he'll be remembered.
For all we know the excommunication business could all just be another WBC publicity stunt. Who knows if these people even believe in God. I know they believe in money. His family are probably toasting his death and his life behind the scenes. People leave the church because they get tired of the charade and want to move onto other things not because they have a crisis of "faith" or because they're disillusioned. They're quite the performers and they have a global audience that loves to lap it up.
Because a piece of excrement is about to croak and leave the earth in a better place with its demise, that's why.
Because a piece of excrement is about to croak and leave the earth in a better place with its demise, that's why.
But his spawn still lives and he was inconsequential to the church at his age anyway. His "demise?" Everybody dies sooner or later. But hey if it gives you the cathartic warm fuzzies!
He'll probably die with a big fat smug smile on his face knowing he successfully trolled people such as yourself.
I know its bad form to gloat over someone's demise but this cretin has been making a habit out of doing that for all of his (wasted and, essentially, pointless) life.
But his spawn still lives and he was inconsequential to the church at his age anyway. His "demise?" Everybody dies sooner or later. But hey if it gives you the cathartic warm fuzzies!
He'll probably die with a big fat smug smile on his face knowing he successfully trolled people such as yourself.
So why does it bother you that others get 'warm fuzzies'?
One nearly wishes that the religious hokum idea of heaven and hell exists, just so that the Phelps clan can spend eternity being poked in the bottom with a fiery trident, while being forced to watch gay porn movies on a loop... forever.
One nearly wishes that the religious hokum idea of heaven and hell exists, just so that the Phelps clan can spend eternity being poked in the bottom with a fiery trident, while being forced to watch gay porn movies on a loop... forever.
Why do you assume he'd be going to his idea of heaven?
I don't. This family thrives on conflict and contoversy. Picketing his funeral will give them that. The best reaction would be to ignore it. Indifference would hurt them much more.
I don't. This family thrives on conflict and contoversy. Picketing his funeral will give them that. The best reaction would be to ignore it. Indifference would hurt them much more.
Quite an interesting reply. I always thought that the WBC has done a lot to enhance gay rights. One look at them and i think people would want gay rights.
The demise of this worthless particle is one death that I have genuinely been looking forward to. I honestly wouldn't say that about anyone else in the world. (except murderers and rapists )
I don't. This family thrives on conflict and contoversy. Picketing his funeral will give them that. The best reaction would be to ignore it. Indifference would hurt them much more.
Oh look DaisyBill is onto them. If this spreads the WBC might actually have something to worry about.
I found some info on Phelps Sr. on Cracked that I hadn't heard before - and which further leads me to believe that he didn't believe some of what his disgusting church preached and was, along with the rest of them, a charlatan out to make money.
Fred Phelps once fought for civil rights.
Today, Fred is overtly racist, associating with a Neo-Nazi group, denouncing the Chinese as "slant-eyed barbarians" and even once sending a letter of support to Saddam Hussein (he later retracted this - y'know, because he was killed, so he must be in hell). But before he discovered his lucrative business of courtroom hate, he was a civil rights lawyer - by all accounts, a damn good one. It made him famous and hugely respected, often being the first person called upon to represent black people. He would take on cases that others feared to, and won almost every case. He won three awards for his work and made himself a lot of money. All this while beating the crap out of his children and popping pills. Yes:
Third: Fred used to be a drug addict.
Maybe this comes as no surprise, and maybe it's not so relevant. But goddamn - this is a man who disowned his son in an official letter, citing his "pleasures of sin" and "destruction of the flesh". And yet, for six years, he was hopelessly addicted to barbiturates and amphetamines. In Addicted to Hate (sorry to keep mentioning it, but it's fascinating), son Mark remembers being sent out every week with fraudulent prescriptions for daddy's wake-up pills. Then daddy would get bombed off his ass, kick doors down, break furniture and attack his wife with an electric razor. Oh, and he blew that dog apart. Did we mention it was a big German shepherd?
I found some info on Phelps Sr. on Cracked that I hadn't heard before - and which further leads me to believe that he didn't believe some of what his disgusting church preached and was, along with the rest of them, a charlatan out to make money.
I'm certain he is a charlatan and a hypocrite but I can't help but wonder whether most of them genuinely believe what they spout. I think they probably do, if they were brought up within the scam without being in on it. Phelps himself may well have begun to buy into his own hype to some degree - he was lying for so long that some of it may have stuck in his brain. There's every chance he was a racist homophobe but just not as extreme as his church performances. I've heard/read that he held black people that he defended in court in contempt and simply saw it as a way to make money etc. but that could easily be a retrospective observation. I have no doubt that he was a scam artist like Jerry Falwell and others of that ilk, but it's interesting and difficult to try and peel back the layers to see how much was real and how much was performance.
One nearly wishes that the religious hokum idea of heaven and hell exists, just so that the Phelps clan can spend eternity being poked in the bottom with a fiery trident, while being forced to watch gay porn movies on a loop... forever.
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He's 84 years old. He's had a long life. And he'll be remembered.
For all we know the excommunication business could all just be another WBC publicity stunt. Who knows if these people even believe in God. I know they believe in money. His family are probably toasting his death and his life behind the scenes. People leave the church because they get tired of the charade and want to move onto other things not because they have a crisis of "faith" or because they're disillusioned. They're quite the performers and they have a global audience that loves to lap it up.
I'm not sure his son would know, as I believe he's been disowned by the family since leaving the church. He is also still estranged from Phelps Sr. as far as I know. That is of course if it's true that when members leave or are ex-communicated, they actually do lose contact with the remaining members rather than it just being presented like that to the public.
But his spawn still lives and he was inconsequential to the church at his age anyway. His "demise?" Everybody dies sooner or later. But hey if it gives you the cathartic warm fuzzies!
He'll probably die with a big fat smug smile on his face knowing he successfully trolled people such as yourself.
I know its bad form to gloat over someone's demise but this cretin has been making a habit out of doing that for all of his (wasted and, essentially, pointless) life.
I'm not bothered. Just amused by the reactions.
They do repugnant things and I find them repulsive... but probably for slightly different reasons.
I don't. This family thrives on conflict and contoversy. Picketing his funeral will give them that. The best reaction would be to ignore it. Indifference would hurt them much more.
Oh look DaisyBill is onto them. If this spreads the WBC might actually have something to worry about.
...God hates Fred Phelps.
I'm certain he is a charlatan and a hypocrite but I can't help but wonder whether most of them genuinely believe what they spout. I think they probably do, if they were brought up within the scam without being in on it. Phelps himself may well have begun to buy into his own hype to some degree - he was lying for so long that some of it may have stuck in his brain. There's every chance he was a racist homophobe but just not as extreme as his church performances. I've heard/read that he held black people that he defended in court in contempt and simply saw it as a way to make money etc. but that could easily be a retrospective observation. I have no doubt that he was a scam artist like Jerry Falwell and others of that ilk, but it's interesting and difficult to try and peel back the layers to see how much was real and how much was performance.
Where can I get this service and how much does it cost?
In my opinion, anyone that thinks there's a god has a number on the Phelps scale.
You might be a 1 or maybe a 3. Whatever the number, you're deluded and holding humanity back.