hagar Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/fred-phelps-dead_n_5000577.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo 'n dye Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 If evil does exist, this person was the embodiment of it: I cannot help but be gleeful he has died. I do regret that his death did not involve a scenario where many, if not most, of his family accompanied him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagar Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 Yes, I feel similarly, however horrible that makes me as a human being. I can only hope every soldier, abortionist, faggot in this country pickets his and all of their funerals in mass droves. I would certainly be one of them if it were to happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstrung Harp Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I'm glad that his particular brand of crazy and evil has been silenced. Sadly, as you said, it will all live on through his whackjob relatives and followers. All the rest of us can do is keep affirming that what they are and what they do and say is not okay, and will not be tolerated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickler Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) I know, I'm terrible... Edited March 21, 2014 by Stickler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagar Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Hahaha, that is precisely what rang through my mind when I read the news this morning, Stickler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaw72 Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I'm glad that his particular brand of crazy and evil has been silenced. Sadly, as you said, it will all live on through his whackjob relatives and followers. All the rest of us can do is keep affirming that what they are and what they do and say is not okay, and will not be tolerated. ^THIS. I hope he rots in hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit37 Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 chickenshit bastard won't be having a funeral, I imagine because he/they didn't want it picketed. Ironic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emettman Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 chickenshit bastard won't be having a funeral, I imagine because he/they didn't want it picketed. Ironic. I was trying to decide whether a dose of "own medicine" was what should be delivered at any such, or whether the temptation could be resisted, on a "we're better than that" principle. A silent attendance with no derogatory boards might actually say more. But I'm not sure if that's too big an ask. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binaryhermit Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 I seem to remember reading that he won't be having a funeral. And the asshat allegedly got excommunicated from the "church" that he founded. Allegedly there was a power struggle, and he called for the "church" members to be more civil toward each other. So they excommunicated him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mim Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 I'm not glad he's dead, but it doesn't really matter, either; it's done now. I suppose I should say I'd like to feel sadness, or even pity for him or his family, but I don't feel a thing and don't care to. Likewise, I'd like to consider this a victory, or even a breather, for the people whose harassment he spearheaded, but it doesn't seem too likely. His own church is still out there; it's like cutting heads off the hydra, though I do apologize for the defeatism in that image. I could be wrong. I hope I am. He was a hateful person, both poisoned and venomous. I do hope that he saw, even briefly or in the abstract, what a putrid waste that kind of hate really is, and how much of his one and only life he squandered, because now that he's dead, all bets are off. If people really believe that life is sacred, and has meaning, doesn't that mean that it's the worst kind of waste to piss it all away like that? Ain't he going to be surprised. As far as I'm concerned, it's unnecessary that this be discussed very much on the national news as a topic of relevance. I'll be glad if his funeral isn't held/publicized/whatever, because to me, picketing it would just validate the WBC's bullshit. I guess I think of the news coverage as an offline version of feeding the trolls, in a way. I begrudge the church every influence, color me bitter. Heh. I know things don't work this way, but I think it would be hilarious to hold a great big coast-to-coast movement of "my goodness, what is that noise?" when the WBC grabs for attention. I would love that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissaw72 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 As far as I'm concerned, it's unnecessary that this be discussed very much on the national news as a topic of relevance. I'll be glad if his funeral isn't held/publicized/whatever, because to me, picketing it would just validate the WBC's bullshit. I guess I think of the news coverage as an offline version of feeding the trolls, in a way. I begrudge the church every influence, color me bitter. Heh. I haven't heard about him on the news other than the "he died" comment. Thank goodness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilemma Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Members of the church were protesting a Lorde concert, and a counter-protester held up a sign saying "Sorry for your loss." http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/westboro-baptist-church-protests-lorde-concert-first-protest-since-phelps-passing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpladybug Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 it certainly made me smile to hear of death on the radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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