Posted on 03/21/2014 4:43:01 AM PDT by nuconvert
Fred Phelps -- the founding pastor of a Kansas church known for its virulently anti-gay protests at public events, including military funerals -- has died, the church said Thursday.
The 84-year-old died of natural causes at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to church spokesman Steve Drain.
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Oh great. Now he’s gonna come back as that creepy old dude, popping up outside a screen door just like in POLTERGEIST 2.
All Gore fund raiser and local chair; civil rights lawyer; NAACP award winner; democrat local candidate
He was a life-long democrat; he ran in five Democratic primaries in Kansas, including gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and mayoral races. He and his church supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic presidential primary and Bill Clinton in 1992.
I’m as sure that the dims won’t claim him; neither do Baptist. I am sure that the MSM won’t mention his party affiliation; but will his religious.
I know this will be unpopular on this thread but I hope he repented of his sins and begged for our Lord's forgiveness before he departed this earth.
Our Lord doesn't hate any individual. He hates our sins, but He loves each and every one of us as His children and desires for us all to be in Heaven with Him. Whether or not we get there is our choice, as He intended it to be.
“Died of [unidentified] natural causes[,]” AIDS??
Agreed
“Died of [unidentified] natural causes[,]” AIDS??
That’s certainly possible given his probable lifelong lifestyle as a roadside reststop fellator.
I don't see their peculiar behaviour as being associated with political allegiance as much as religious organization. WBC seems to be an Independent Fundamental Primitive Baptist church. They are link to three Baptist Confessions of Faith in the doctrinal statement on their website. Fred Phelps, founder of this local church, attended Bob Jones University for two years. I don't know whether another church sponsored him when he planted WBC in 1955. The previous year he was an associate pastor at East Side Baptist Church in Topeka so they may have had a service to found his church. He stopped fellowship with East Side afterward. One inherent problem for Fundamentalists, Baptist or non-denominational, is the doctrinal view of church structure. They view the church as always local on earth, and are fiercely protective of the independence of the local church. It is their defence against heresy infecting the churches. They can choose, or decline, to fellowship with like-minded churches. There is no governing authority outside the local church. Churches plant other churches which assume all the rights and responsibilities of a New Testament local church. Doctrinally this is how they view Apostolic Succession. That is likely what happened win the case of Fred Phelps and WBC.
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