Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church is dead...

[snowywolfowl]

...and since I am taking the high road "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang will not be played. No, not at all and you have no idea how hard that is.

I admit that I will miss his enlightening videos informing the world whenever someone he hated "entered Hell" and bizarrely infantile need for attention that led him to protest funerals of people he had absolutely no interactions with. This of course leads me to wonder if his own church will be making a video depicting his own entry into the flaming blast furnace underground and protesting his funeral. Not that I personally wish him ill but since his own church excommunicated him I will be greatly disappointed if they don't. One would think they'd have the decency to give him a right proper send off.*

In truth though (and I am copying this word for word from a comment I left at bonnie_halfelvn journal that I left there. She posted a great link about the most likely effect the WCB has had. I recommend reading it),  I always saw him and his family/cult as a group of sad little people condemned through their own actions to never add anything joyous to the world. Instead of bringing joy and kindness they made it their life's work to show a theology where in the afterlife they get to sit by a flaming pool drinking mai tais while the Great Executioner in the Sky sadisticly tortures everyone that isn't them. I don't despair of ever turning them from their beliefs, rather when confronted with such hate I'd rather shake the hand of everyone they personal despise and say "See you in their Hell, my friend!" because it would be a far better afterlife than anything they imagine.

*As far as send offs go I want a Viking funeral. It's not my first point but it's just too hard to get my neighbours to build me a proper pyramid.

Comments

[bonnie-halfelvn.livejournal.com]

I want to be cremated. One of the most depressing things I see in this world are tombstones of long-forgotten people in untended cemeteries.

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

That works. I'm just going to let whoever comes in to investigate the smell in my apartment make the decision for me. I doubt I'm really going to care one way or the other.