Banished!
 

I just finished reading the book Banished! by Lauren Drain. This young woman was a part of the Westboro Baptist Church because her parents joined when she was about 14. It is an amazing story of cruelty and abuse that she went through both at the hands of the church and her parents. Poor kid. She got thrown out because she talked to a boy on the phone that she had been told not to talk to. She is disowned to this day and her parents will have nothing to do with her. Anyway, it is worth the read.

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About how many attend that church anyways? Is is 10? 100? More?

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She never says but it is mostly the Phelps family. They don't believe in birth control so they have lots and lots of kids. There are only a couple of families beyond that. So Fred Phelps had maybe 13 kids or so and a couple left but the rest are there and some of them have boatloads of kids. Anyway, it is a sick, sick place.

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They probably think they're applying Matthew 19:29. "And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."

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Westboro started stalking Kevin Smith, so he had a movie about them; Red State? My sis said she liked it...



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Prolly so.

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Wild amount of drivel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2JaR9DcN90

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I find this trailer very offensive. I couldn't even watch it.

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I heard that they are going to be protesting at the funerals for the children in Moore, Oklahoma who were killed in the tornado. How disgusting can they get!????

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That is really disgusting. However, after reading that book, I begin to understand that they are all brainwashed by Fred Phelps. The rest of them are pretty much just followers of his warped theology and I feel sorry for them.