The Westboro Baptist in All of Us

"Megan Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founding pastor of Westboro Baptist Church. In a recent interview, Megan dropped a bombshell: She and her sister, Grace, left Westboro."

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"The underlying assumption is that my thoughts are God's thoughts; my cause is God's cause. This divine alliance makes me exempt from obedience in order that I might bring about God's purposes." Tim Gombis,  "The Fundamentalist's Error"

"Zealotry is conscious zeal to be radically committed, so radically committed that one goes beyond the Bible to defend things that are not in the Bible…. Zealots…convince themselves that, even though the Bible does not say something, what they are saying is really what the Bible wanted after all." Scot McKnight

"Our great God and Savior Jesus Christ... gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works." Titus 2:13-14