Fred Phelps is on his deathbed. A few interesting things have come to light.

[Junkenstein]

It seems that Shirley Phelps has also been outed some time ago. The future of the church is in the hands of "A council of Male Elders".

It's either going to fall apart or go TO THE WALL in 6 months. The kicker? One of the "elders" is Steve Drain, a journalist who converted to the religion while covering them.

Apparently the old bugger was kicked out for asking church members "to be kinder to each other". Got to wonder exactly how fucked up it was getting if that's an unreasonable request.

They believe in a deity that hates people indiscriminately. I gotta wonder if it could get any more fucked up than that.

Hates and loves you. It's like some kind of cosmic battered spouse syndrome.

It also explains a large part of the global punishment fetish. Fuck up during you 70 odd years of life? Eternal torment.

That's sounds like a Just and compassionate being. There's also Carlin's classic "He needs money" lines too. Never considered the full financial side of WBC but I'd bet limbs that there's going to be some strange shit there too. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

That's the thing about god, he's this omniscient, all powerful super magician with the emotional maturity of a two year old human child. And then people seem surprised when other people interpret his as being a complete fuckwit.  Why is this? The book clearly illustrates that he's a complete fuckwit. I'm obviously missing something here.

[Bu🤠ns]

IMO, let him go quietly and peacefully. Without attention, without the inevitable counter protest at his funeral, and without any sort of pomp. The faster he slips from memory, the better.

Balls.  I don't want ANYONE to EVER forget him.

He was the guy that did more than any other single person to make it socially unacceptable to be against Gay Rights.

Here here I'm making a youtube video of me laughing until my shit my pants. MY PANTS I SAY! I also need to find the gayest alcoholic drink I can find to add to injury.

Sorry, b-man.  I feel the need to call you out on that one.

I know what your intentions are, and I applaud them, but still.  You're dancing on the edge of pejoritive stereotyping.


Anyway, carry on laughing at a dying man.





LMNO
-wow, I'm in kind of a mood today, huh?

Seem to see this a lot and I cant figure it out. Same with when Osama was killed.

I had a moment of it the other day when I thought to myself it would be fitting if people protested his funeral. Simultaneously I recognized that it was a dick thought to have. I am only human.

However, since you bring up Bin Laden, I do remember saying that it was a pity that he lived the life that he did, especially where he came from a wealthy family and could have done some good in the world with those resources. I feel the same way about Phelps.

Exactly, he didn't just spring up out of the blue, theres a story to that.

And the world isn't a better place without him, it's just as bad as yesterday.

If people have to picket his funeral (which is just as bad as what he did), I would hope they do it respectfully, without incident and quietly. Anything else is just going to feed and empower his horrible organisation.

I like that everyone is assuming there IS a funeral.

If he was excommunicated, he may not have all that many people in his family who would be willing to attend, and who will perform the ceremony?  Certainly not the WBC, not if was excommunicated.  In addition, people would surely anticipate that at least one jackass would wish to protest.  My bet is that it's not happening.

No funeral.  Hoops is right.  They don't believe in honoring the dead.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

IMO, let him go quietly and peacefully. Without attention, without the inevitable counter protest at his funeral, and without any sort of pomp. The faster he slips from memory, the better.

Balls.  I don't want ANYONE to EVER forget him.

He was the guy that did more than any other single person to make it socially unacceptable to be against Gay Rights.

Here here I'm making a youtube video of me laughing until my shit my pants. MY PANTS I SAY! I also need to find the gayest alcoholic drink I can find to add to injury.

Sorry, b-man.  I feel the need to call you out on that one.

I know what your intentions are, and I applaud them, but still.  You're dancing on the edge of pejoritive stereotyping.


Anyway, carry on laughing at a dying man.





LMNO
-wow, I'm in kind of a mood today, huh?

Seem to see this a lot and I cant figure it out. Same with when Osama was killed.

I had a moment of it the other day when I thought to myself it would be fitting if people protested his funeral. Simultaneously I recognized that it was a dick thought to have. I am only human.

However, since you bring up Bin Laden, I do remember saying that it was a pity that he lived the life that he did, especially where he came from a wealthy family and could have done some good in the world with those resources. I feel the same way about Phelps.

Yet oddly, Phelps has done an extraordinary amount of good in the world, albeit without meaning to.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It seems that Shirley Phelps has also been outed some time ago. The future of the church is in the hands of "A council of Male Elders".

It's either going to fall apart or go TO THE WALL in 6 months. The kicker? One of the "elders" is Steve Drain, a journalist who converted to the religion while covering them.

Apparently the old bugger was kicked out for asking church members "to be kinder to each other". Got to wonder exactly how fucked up it was getting if that's an unreasonable request.

Getting kicked out of the cult you founded for asking members to be nice to each other is quite an accomplishment. This shit is going to get interesting.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It seems that Shirley Phelps has also been outed some time ago. The future of the church is in the hands of "A council of Male Elders".

It's either going to fall apart or go TO THE WALL in 6 months. The kicker? One of the "elders" is Steve Drain, a journalist who converted to the religion while covering them.

Apparently the old bugger was kicked out for asking church members "to be kinder to each other". Got to wonder exactly how fucked up it was getting if that's an unreasonable request.

They believe in a deity that hates people indiscriminately. I gotta wonder if it could get any more fucked up than that.

[Luna]

He said it better than I can.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

I played Fred Phelps in a production of The Laramie Project back in 2006. While I was researching him I saw this interview where he was talking about being featured in George Magazine. The look on his face and the way he talked about it just kind of hit me like a little kid showing his parents a report card he was really proud of. It kind of fucking broke my heart a lot. I haven't been able to properly hate or even mock the man since. Mainly, I would just end up shaking my head and feeling really depressed whenever I would see reports about their shit. I don't have much more reaction than that to his passing.

[Ben Shapiro]

IMO, let him go quietly and peacefully. Without attention, without the inevitable counter protest at his funeral, and without any sort of pomp. The faster he slips from memory, the better.

Balls.  I don't want ANYONE to EVER forget him.

He was the guy that did more than any other single person to make it socially unacceptable to be against Gay Rights.

Here here I'm making a youtube video of me laughing until my shit my pants. MY PANTS I SAY! I also need to find the gayest alcoholic drink I can find to add to injury.

Sorry, b-man.  I feel the need to call you out on that one.

I know what your intentions are, and I applaud them, but still.  You're dancing on the edge of pejoritive stereotyping.


Anyway, carry on laughing at a dying man.





LMNO
-wow, I'm in kind of a mood today, huh?

It's cool I'll take your word for it since I'm usually wrong about things like these. I could have sworn their was a official gay drink similar to how the metal/rock community has whiskey/jager as their drink(s).

I always figured the official metal drink was "whatever will fuck you up."

But L has a point. I suppose gay men stereotypically like mixed drinks. I don't think there's an official drink though. What if you're a gay metalhead? Do you drink Jagerpolitans? I have a good friend who would fit the gay stereotype pretty well. We drink whiskey and beer together. Last time I had a couple of Martinis with him because I wanted a motherfucking Martini and I was buying the round. We went back to his place hammered out of our gourds and drank... I can't even remember. But it was strong and straight (in the sense of unmixed, hard liquor). Then we felt like shit in the morning and watched a Martin marathon on cable. Which was kinda funny in a meta sort of way. No cosmopolitans involved.

I see it now thanks.

[Trivial]

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

AHAHAHA! It's funny because the stupid BURNS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/21/fred-phelps-michael-phelps-twitter_n_5005732.html

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

He said it better than I can.

I love Takei!

[Luna]

He said it better than I can.

I love Takei!

He's a classy guy, particularly when you consider that his prior contact with Phelps was the WBC threatening to picket his wedding.

[Cain]

AHAHAHA! It's funny because the stupid BURNS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/21/fred-phelps-michael-phelps-twitter_n_5005732.html

Quite likely it is was a deliberate twitter troll, and the stupid here is the HuffPo not getting it.

Which it never does.  Because, HuffPo.

[Bu🤠ns]

AHAHAHA! It's funny because the stupid BURNS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/21/fred-phelps-michael-phelps-twitter_n_5005732.html