more good news!

[Uncle Sparky]

What if Westboro Baptist was an Andy Kaufman RL trolling project?

Didn't Fred Phelps rise to national attention around the same time Andy Kaufman 'died'?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Actually, someone shared an interesting thought on Facebook.

Phelps may have ironically helped gay people to gain greater acceptance as human beings, through his despicable, wretched actions and behavior.

Good point. Much in the same vein as people becoming more cynical about gay rights (when they initially weren't predisposed to be) after reading poly posts.

[DaShi]

Christ, what an ass!

[Guynemer]

Christ, what an ass!

[pchang]

Is that a tramp stamp over that ass? Well played sir.

[DinoDoc]

You. Yes, you. I like the cut of your jib. Good man for catching that missed post.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Didn't Fred Phelps rise to national attention around the same time Andy Kaufman 'died'?

Hmm. I think there's a roughly ten-year gap, but Andy may not have thought of it right away.

-Too busy staging live Elvis sightings just to troll Mojo Nixon, no doubt. Trolls; Andy is your founder.

[Guynemer]

You. Yes, you. I like the cut of your jib. Good man for catching that missed post.

I am but a man, trying to do his best in this world.

[Sava]

[molly bloom]

I feel very little about Fred Phelps dying- one more ignorant, bile-filled blister popped, so many more left. Some people will mourn him, I won't.

However:

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions


MEDITATION XVII.

[The Mad Monk]

You just know somebody's really going to do that, right?

Apparently Westboro is. He was excommunicated.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Fred Phelps? What's the story?

[Sava]

I heard a rumor that it was because the church wanted to try to be more "kind".

But I think it's really about some legal bull**** regarding the church's assets.

[Imran Siddiqui]

yay

I don't think its actually a very Christian response to cheer for someone's death. FWIW, I held this same position when Osama bin Laden was killed. A better response is to consider what a tragedy the man's life was - he chose to spread hate instead of love.

I remind you:

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that

[kentonio]

I don't think its actually a very Christian response to cheer for someone's death. FWIW, I held this same position when Osama bin Laden was killed. A better response is to consider what a tragedy the man's life was - he chose to spread hate instead of love.

Indeed, although I'd say that is just the more humanist response rather than just the Christian response.