Comments on: Eastboro Baptist Church is Sneaking Up On Us

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:43:08 +0000

Nate,

I do have to say that from an atheist perspective, much of the content on your estranged family’s websites is over-the-top funny after you get over the anti-gay rhetoric. I couldn’t imaging making a more effective parody of homo-phobic Christians. Do they even realize how they come across to most people and that their activities actually run counter to their cause (misguided as it is)?

By: Nate Phelps

Nate Phelps — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:25:32 +0000

It’s an interesting question. One that I think weighed heavily on HarperCollin’s decision to let my book pass. I have watched several programs and keep a constant update on my family’s activities. It’s interesting to see which of the siblings have risen to the top of the heap, and how closely they emulate my father in word and tone.

Ultimately I think the staying power lies in my father’s bottomless well of antipathy for the whole of humanity. I don’t imagine there is any one of my brothers or sisters who can conjure that amount of cruelty without a touchstone like the old man available.

By: micketymoc

micketymoc — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:35:43 +0000

Hello, Nate! I first read your story in that article by Jon Bell.

What’s going to happen when your Dad passes on? Do you think the Church will go on without him, or is he the only thing holding the whole enterprise together?

By: Nate Phelps

Nate Phelps — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:08:06 +0000

A great bit of humor…I loved the website. An interesting side note, my father actually began his reign of terror in Topeka as a guest pastor at…you guessed it…Eastboro Baptist Church in Topeka. It was that church that made all the arrangements to open their sister church, Westboro Baptist after my father agreed to stay on as the new pastor of that church.

Strange but true…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:57:09 +0000

Eastboro… very funny.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:45:13 +0000

is it a hoax?

I hope so

I could see the western not being a hoax, and then the eastern deff being a hoax.

By: Sanity

Sanity — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:46:27 +0000

Oh, I’ve had so much fun with fundies agreeing to that site, which is actually pretty sad, now that I think about it.

It’s Poe’s law In Action

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:01:34 +0000

in which he and Fred Phelps were both urinated on by a gay lion at the Meridian Zoo. Too bad the lion didn’t continue on, as in the good old days, and eat Fred and friend.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:56:45 +0000

I always have a problem where I wonder, every time I see a quote or action, if Fred Phelps is from the Landover Baptist Church or not.

By: amiable

amiable — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:04:30 +0000

countdown to “you do know this site is a hoax, right?” comment