magnesium I used to hate these people, until I read an article in which one of Phelps' estranged sons detailed how Phelps beat the shit out of/starved/imprisoned/etc his wife and kids on a regular basis. Now I just kinda feel bad for them. Luckily the litter's not allowed to procreate with anyone who's not in the church (and the whole church is pretty much all related at this point), so this'll probably be the final generation.
frau_eva The more research you go into it, the sadder it gets. Phelps was once turned out of a sane church for punching his own baby boy for crying during his sermon. Their whole lives are basically Stockholm Syndrome ala' Daddy.
WHO WANTS DESSERT And then they get dragged to protests, where entitled college kids scream at them because they're too fucking stupid to realize that that's exactly what Phelps wants and both fuels their persecution complex and gives their church even more publicity.
Xenocide "We...love it. We have a *duty* to love it."
Adham Nu'man The Children of God (aka The Family International) have lived on extremist endogamy for a couple of generations and are still going on fairly strong.
Yes, their group is definitely past their golden age, but that's more due to worldwide persecution and the loss of a charismatic leader, rather than the practice of endogamy per se.
Syd Midnight Louie Theroux says the Phelps kids want desperately to be normal, but they've been trained to think this way since birth. They've never had a choice. The Phelpses who manage escape are miserable. This is like an immoral psychology experiment.
Charles So Americans are going to Hell because they commit idolatry by worshiping dead soldiers who are in Hell because they are the sons and daughters of people who worship dead soldiers who are in Hell? Is this what I truly heard?
pastorofmuppets You're right, believing in hell is pretty silly.
APE_GOD I love the little jab at the First Amendment that the British narrator put in at the end.
Freedom of speech! What a joke!
I bet he was happy to go back home to his decency laws.
THA SUGAH RAIN I've wanted to bang out the one in green ever since her true character cracked out in the louis theroux interview. You know the sex would be insane.
THA SUGAH RAIN Yeah i dont want to hang out with her, I just to bang her out with my enormous dong.
Baldr You want to hang out with her and your dog? I guess that's okay.
That guy They make this God guy sound great. Same with Jesus Whoever. They're a little intense though.
Jealous and hateful, but great.
revdrew Fred Phelps needs to die, and his entire clan needs a good cult deprogrammer.
Louis Armstrong Oh they have that covered......WITH BRIMSTOOOONE!!
pastorofmuppets He's too much of a pussy for a martyr's death so we're just going to have to have the party when he eventually dies of unhappiness and old.
cognitivedissonance They're going to seal themselves alive in a tomb with the guy like an Egyptian pharoah.
Hooper_X I want Fred Phelps to die so I can go protest his funeral.
boner Would you believe a theater company tried to get these guys to protest their play on purpose? http://bit.ly/9HbDWu
Riskbreaker Only a theater company? I'm surprised there aren't more people looking for this type of publicity.
Frank Rizzo I want to see them get gang raped by gay jewish black men.
Hooper_X "Embraced by a new generation" of like three kids. The Phelps clan has allegedly stopped breeding entirely because THE END IS THAT CLOSE Y'ALL.
(Also, because the Phelps Gals would pretty much *have* to go outside WBC to find someone and it's going to be im-fucking-possible to keep them under control if that happens.)
spikestoyiu For real though, if everyone stopped paying attention, they'd go away. We're our own worst enemies here.
revdrew Phelps is sort of like Freddy Krueger in this sense.
pastorofmuppets They're going to go away anyway since no one will breed with them. Screw 'em, let's at least get a laugh out of it.
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