Fred Phelps is near death

[michael87cn]

Holy crap does this thread make humans look like total scum. I don't know who Fred Phelps is, and what _I_ don't care about is what he's 'done'.

Yall might as well be pointing at a man that's on fire and shrugging your shoulders. I am not saying you should burst into tears, but to pretty much take pleasure in someones death is a very cold, evil thing to do. It really means you are probably worse than the person you think you're better than.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Holy crap does this thread make humans look like total scum. I don't know who Fred Phelps is, and what _I_ don't care about is what he's 'done'.

Yall might as well be pointing at a man that's on fire and shrugging your shoulders. I am not saying you should burst into tears, but to pretty much take pleasure in someones death is a very cold, evil thing to do. It really means you are probably worse than the person you think you're better than.

Look, it's incredibly hypocritical to want to picket this man's funeral, but what we need to understand is, this is the man who started the WBC. He is the source of an entire group of people who do nothing but spread hate and cause distress to people everywhere.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but the man isn't exactly undeserving of the kind of responses in this thread.

 

[Ieyke]

Holy crap does this thread make humans look like total scum. I don't know who Fred Phelps is, and what _I_ don't care about is what he's 'done'.

Yall might as well be pointing at a man that's on fire and shrugging your shoulders. I am not saying you should burst into tears, but to pretty much take pleasure in someones death is a very cold, evil thing to do. It really means you are probably worse than the person you think you're better than.

If that man was on fire, my instinct would be to personally add gasoline and prod him with a spear.

That's not so much a measure of me as it is a measure of the hate that that man has well and truly earned.

I have no empathy for evil and would see it purged from my world with great haste. I am, quite unfortunately, not allowed to.


With specific major exceptions, I don't especially care about humans in general.
I care about humanity as a whole. The ongoing human civilization is a thing worthy of great admiration and celebration.
Most people just...are.
I have no tolerance for those that would willfully spread the cancer of their evils and lies to human civilization.
The extermination of the insidious is a painfully slow process, and every milestone towards that goal is one to be celebrated.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

It was my understanding that the WBC only survived financially by trolling people into public retaliation, then suing for compensation. Since Fred Phelps was the only lawyer in the group (no practicing lawyers are willing to represent them anymore), the church will fold almost immediately, and the family will slink back into obscurity (sans those smart enough to get out earlier).

 

[Bertylicious]

In the UK we have a TV programme called Benefit Street. It is outrage porn for middle class people. A lurid sensation to enable its frothing viewers to feel a smug sense of superiority.

In many ways Phelp's organisation set out to achieve the same result, with his death now achieving the same for his "opponents". Didn't some arsehole once write something about the perils of using the enemies weapons?

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

Conspiracy to commit assault with a horse phallus

I think you may have played just a little too much Saint's Row.

Nah, just too much furry porn my own weird-ass imagination running wild. My friends and I did half-seriously consider this and a bunch of other counter-protest stunts when we heard the WBC would be in our area, but in the end the cowards (the WBC, not my friends) cancelled.

 

[Not Matt]

well, good. That means there's one more idiot taken out of the equation. personally, i hope they throw the most oversexualized gay block party on the streets in front of the baptist headquarters.

Spoiler: do not open until Fred's dead

 

[omega 616]

Holy crap does this thread make humans look like total scum. I don't know who Fred Phelps is, and what _I_ don't care about is what he's 'done'.

Yall might as well be pointing at a man that's on fire and shrugging your shoulders. I am not saying you should burst into tears, but to pretty much take pleasure in someones death is a very cold, evil thing to do. It really means you are probably worse than the person you think you're better than.

I suggest youtubing Fred Phelps or WBC and just watch a couple of video's, just absorb the kind of people we are talking about here. Imagine Hitler without the political power, just makes other peoples lives worse ... even when they are mourning their dead.

Imagine a person or group of people laughing or cheering the death of your family member at the funeral

 

[J Tyran]

I wonder if those Satanists will carry out another of those "pink masses" on his grave that (they claim) turns the person gay in the after life?

 

[mitchell271]

Speaking as a cynical asshole, I'm somewhat glad. I'm not going to have a party or picket his funeral to give him a taste of his own medicine, but I'm in no way going to mourn his passing. However, if I ever do come across his grave, I might leave some poison ivy or something.

 

[Buizel91]

Apparently he is dead now...

There are a few posts on my Facebook (not the most reliable source i know) but my news feed is near enough full of "Fred Phelps is dead" posts...

 

[DudeistBelieve]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/us/westboro-church-founder-dead/index.html

CNN is saying that he is dead.

Yay? Do we celebrate now?

The man was never the problem, it was the idea he represented.

 

[Strain42]

I would never wish death upon another human being, nor will I celebrate the fact that he is now gone from this earth.

But I will say that on a completely unrelated note, earth just got a little bit better...maybe it was from Fred Phelps dying, maybe it was the nickel I found in the Target parking lot today. Who can say?

Now that he is dead though, I will continue to discuss him as much as I did when he was alive.

-walks away-

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

I just really wish they turned up to protest Sandy Brook when the Hells Angels turned up to deal with them. When you have both the Hells Angels and KKK against you, then you know you are hated.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/us/westboro-church-founder-dead/index.html

CNN is saying that he is dead.

Yay? Do we celebrate now?

The man was never the problem, it was the idea he represented.

Spoiler: Ding Dong the Witch is dead

There are few people in this world who I could call scum and this man was one of them. He brought nothing into this world other than hate and vitriol. If he did have any kind of positive influence on humanity, it was exposing what true bigotry was with no bullshit excuses, giving people a figure to rally against.

 

[Nokturos]

I hope someone drills a hole through his tombstone and it becomes a glory hole for the gay community.

 

[Stryc9]

Well, so much for the idea that this was all a publicity stunt to get some attention because no one had talked about them for a bit.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person, now if the rest of them could all be so heartbroken they follow suit in short order that would be great.

 

[Marik2]

Isn't his wife more crazier than him? She would just replace him.

 

[Stryc9]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person, now if the rest of them could all be so heartbroken they follow suit in short order that would be great.

Not likely. His own church reputedly excommunicated him earlier this month.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/fred-phelps-excommunicated-wbc_n_4981300.html?ir=Religion

Which is funny because he wasn't trying to say that they should change their message, just that they should stop fighting amongst themselves. Maybe in the power vacuum the whole thing will collapse and fade into nothingness.

 

[Sunrider]

I'll say what Christopher Hitchens said about Jerry Falwell.

"I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to.", and "If you gave the guy an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.".

Good riddance.