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Westboro church founder Fred Phelps dies
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Posted on 03/21/2014 4:43:01 AM PDT by nuconvert

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To: nuconvert
All Gore fund raiser and local chair; civil rights lawyer; NAACP award winner; democrat local candidate. These are all things that need to be hammered home. If he was R, the legacy media would never let you forget it.
21 posted on 03/21/2014 6:18:04 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiNMz_745vQ


22 posted on 03/21/2014 6:21:07 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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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.


23 posted on 03/21/2014 6:28:04 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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Smell that? Smells like something died......


24 posted on 03/21/2014 6:37:23 AM PDT by Envisioning (It's the Jihad, stupid......)
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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.


25 posted on 03/21/2014 6:38:29 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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Wouldn't want to be in his shoes come Judgement Day. Then again, I don't want to be in MY shoes come Judgement day.

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.

26 posted on 03/21/2014 6:42:14 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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“Died of [unidentified] natural causes[,]” AIDS??


27 posted on 03/21/2014 7:08:29 AM PDT by libstripper
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Agreed


28 posted on 03/21/2014 7:36:30 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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“Died of [unidentified] natural causes[,]” AIDS??

That’s certainly possible given his probable lifelong lifestyle as a roadside reststop fellator.


29 posted on 03/21/2014 7:46:06 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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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 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.

30 posted on 03/31/2014 5:44:36 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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