[QUOTE=elucidator]
Well, then!
Death on Phelps. Great green gobs of greasy, grimy death on Phelps. Death wish Tibetan prayer wheels, spinning at 10,000 ppm (prayers per minute), urging immediate reincarnation as an assistant maggot.
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Seconded, offering as a friendly amendment, "gay assistant maggot!" 
Yep, let’s just sit back, wait, and hope that they pull a Heaven’s Gate or something…complete with castration…against his wishes of course.
Sit back and wait indeed. This is the second year I nicely included Phelps on my death list and he still has not returned the favor by kicking off.
Imagine the look on his face…
“WTF? Brimstone? Screaming? Nixon? Hitler?..hey, wait a second!..”
[QUOTE=elucidator]
Imagine the look on his face…
“Brimstone? Screaming? Nixon? Hitler?”
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…anger, pain, hatred, people who wish to hurt me paying me individual attention, excellent. I’m in Heaven!"
So Phelps says “You see??? This happens and GAWAD sits back and lets it happen!”
While others say "how could ‘GAWAD sit back and let it happen!’ "…
I’m still kinda sitting on the fence… “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” 
If anyone missed it, you can download Louis Theroux’s brilliant, disturbing (and sadly amusing) immersive documentary about the Phelpses The Most Hated Family in America from the BBC website.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
If anyone missed it, you can download Louis Theroux’s brilliant, disturbing (and sadly amusing) immersive documentary about the Phelpses The Most Hated Family in America from the BBC website.
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Yikes! If that’s the one I’m thinking of, he was MUCH too sympathetic.
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Yikes! If that’s the one I’m thinking of, he was MUCH too sympathetic.
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I don’t know if you’ve seen any of his other documentaries, but that’s his schtick: he looks for what there is to like in his subjects, then uses that to ingratiate himself with them, while he immerses himself in their environment. He’s done neo-Nazis, Black separatists, Michigan militias, and various other scary people. It’s a very clever technique, because it allows them to fuck themselves up without his intervention.
In actual fact, he was a lot meaner to the Phelpses than he has been to his other subjects.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
If anyone missed it, you can download Louis Theroux’s brilliant, disturbing (and sadly amusing) immersive documentary about the Phelpses The Most Hated Family in America from the BBC website.
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Is it limited only to UK citizens? 
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Oh dear. Well I have it and could send it if you want, but it’s just under 20 megs. Let me know by email if anyone wants it and has a method to send.
Did you try this link [MP4]?
What’s the deal with baldness in biblical times? There’s Phelps’ Ezekiel quote in the OP, where being bald is apparently associated with the ultimate horror, and there’s that part of the bible where the guy has god send bears to kill the kids who made fun of his baldness. Those dudes really hated baldness, even more than our modern vain society.
I know it’s a pale imitation of Phelpsian trollery, but the shootings also brought out the leader (sic) of a local atheist group from under his rock.
This jerk had a letter to the editor of the newspaper published in which he chided people for praying in the wake of the tragedy, sneered that they should know there’s no “invisible friend in the sky”, and commented that instead of being born again, they should grow up.
Nice timing.
I have no problem with intelligently pursued atheist activism, but this idiot just set the cause back locally by a couple hundred years.
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I have an idea. How about we just ignore him?
Seriously. We need to refuse to grant him the media attention he craves to get his message out. Without that, he’s simply a lone voice ranting in the wilderness. I grant you it’s a very distasteful prospect to allow him to spew his hate unchallenged, but what we’ve been doing hasn’t worked very well.
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I’d love to ignore him. Hey, I’m from Topeka, which Phelps calls home, believe me I’d LOVE to ignore him.
But Phelps is the one in a million who doesn’t go away when ignored. He just ratchets it up a notch. The WBC is dangerous as well, having physically attacked people in the past. Yea, I know, folks have taken a few swings at them as well. But they actually came onto my church’s property to “take down” our minister, when they falsely accused him of attacking them. So much as it gags me we have to pay attention, the way you would a dangerous wild animal.
I realize I shouldn’t give any more “air time” to the Phelps clan, but Christ on a crumpet, there just doesn’t seem to be a limit to the depths he’ll plumb to generate a reaction from people. If he’d been born a couple of millennia ago, he would have found a reason to picket the death of Jesus.
I just sincerely hopes that when he dies, he discovers that hell is populated by gay American war vets with adopted Amish children who went to VTech.
Wonder how Phelps will respond to a real human tragedy.
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Wonder how Phelps will respond to a real human tragedy.
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Blackberries are fag-enablers.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
If anyone missed it, you can download Louis Theroux’s brilliant, disturbing (and sadly amusing) immersive documentary about the Phelpses The Most Hated Family in America from the BBC website.
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That was a fantastic piece of tv. Not usually a big fan of Theroux, but really enjoyed that one.
I loved the way he highlighted the manipulation of the children, and their blatant use as a human shield.
[QUOTE=elucidator]
Imagine the look on his face…
“WTF? Brimstone? Screaming? Nixon? Hitler?..hey, wait a second!..”
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Nah. You forget that the first thing these maniacs learned was self-deception. The good Reverend would stand proudly on his hillock of brimstone, brush the embers from his eyelashes, and smile at what he will see as his vindication: the Godly punishment of the wicked. He wouldn’t stoop to find out that the wicked are not who he thinks they are.
Better by far for a just and humorous God would be to admit him to Heaven and let him share an apartment with Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Arden, J. Edgar Hoover, Virginia Woolf and Cardinal Newman. Let him (and them) spend eternity seeing that everything they love and hate has a place in Heaven, just as it had a place on Earth.