I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left | Megan Phelps-Roper
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- Mar 6, 2017
What's it like to grow up within a group of people who exult in demonizing ... everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America's most controversial church an...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jan 31, 2024
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"People often lament that digital communication makes us less civil, but this is one advantage that online conversations have over in-person ones. We have a buffer of time and space between us and the people whose ideas we find so frustrating. We can use that buffer. Instead of lashing out, we can pause, breathe, change the subject or walk away, and then come back to it when we're ready."
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jan 31, 2024
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jan 31, 2024
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"The truth is that the care shown to me by these strangers on the internet was itself a self contradiction. It was growing evidence that people on the other side were not the demons I'd been led to believe.
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Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise. I couldn't justify our actions, especially our cruel practice of protesting funerals and celebrating human tragedy."
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jan 31, 2024
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"In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil. The good was my church and its members. The evil was everyone else.
My church's antics were such that we were constantly at odds with the world and that reinforced our otherness on a daily basis."