ISBN:
B07MYWWYDD
Title: Unfollow Pdf A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
The activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America
At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb—which, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman, she learned to do with great skill. Soon, however, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point—and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life.
A gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening, her departure from the church, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.
Everyone should read this book Megan Phelps-Roper is the voice we all need to hear in an increasingly polarized, angry and hateful world.It's so much easier to think of the Westboro Baptist Church as a bunch of evil, stupid loony tunes. It's so much easier to think of a lot of people as evil, stupid loony tunes (and of course some of them are).But by introducing her family as intelligent, loving and complex human beings (with an abhorrent and hateful worldview) *in effect if not in intent*, Megan forces me to consider that all the people I want to write off might also be intelligent, loving and complex human beings.Furthermore, by writing about how good-faith human connection and engagement eventually changed her mind, Megan has challenged me to approach everyone in the world around me AS IF good faith human connection and engagement is the only way for me to ever get my point of view across or actually understand theirs.Taking this message to heart makes the world a better place. It makes my life more interesting and keeps me constantly learning. It leads me to have conversations across differences I would have blanched at before. It leads me to a place where I can actually understand the position of people I disagree with so we can at least have a conversation in good faith.Hearing Megan and Grace's story has made me a less hateful person. For that I will be eternally grateful to them. Everyone should read this book.Essential reading Megan's story has touched my heart since learning of her departure from the Westboro Baptist Church in 2013. In her book, she gives a beautifully written and honest account of her upbringing in the church, her bond with the family she loved and left behind, and the power of empathy and human connection to unravel harmful ideologies and tribalism. Her insights are especially valuable given the social and political climate of today.Destined for The NYT Bestseller List -- Don't Miss This One! (Crossposted from Goodreads)How fortunate I was to win a preview copy of this book from the publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux! I know it's popular and expected for reviewers, in such circumstances, to make a statement like "I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review." Such a statement, from me, would be dishonest because that was not the case. No such agreement was entered in to. The book was an unconditional gift and I made no promise of a review. But it would be a travesty to leave a gem of a book like this unreviewed.This is one of those inspiring, life changing books that comes along but a few times in one's life. It's not just a "great book." Lolita is a great book. Giovanni's Room is a great book. The Help is a great book. Unfollow is in a higher category altogether in that it compels the reader to re-examine the self-righteousness of their worldview. This book will open your mind.Unfollow is the memoir of Megan Phelps-Roper, the grand-daughter of the infamous -- and, as I now know, misunderstood -- Fred Phelps, Pastor of Westboro Baptist Church (of "God Hates Fags" fame). WBC gained fame through its antagonistic pickets protesting the evils of homosexuality. Megan was the social media spokesperson for the church and a regular attendee of these pickets. The world was shocked when she seemed to disappear off the face of the Earth only to reappear along with her less publicly known sister, Grace, as repentant ex-church members. This was back in late 2012.The WBC is almost universally despised. The most fascinating aspect of Megan's story, for me, is the humanization of her family members who are still in the church. These are not bad people trying to do evil. These are good people doing evil things because they think they're good. They've been indoctrinated their whole lives. They believe, fervently, that living any other way will condemn them to everlasting torment in hell. But it was reason and logic from the outside world that inspired Megan to leave the church. Perhaps, in time, such reason will persuade her mother, father, Gran and remaining siblings to leave as well. We should all try to make it so.If you hate the late Fred Phelps and other WBC members, you won't when you have finished reading this book. This book is not a defense of their theology or practices. But it's a reminder, simply, that we're all human.This book is scheduled for release on October 8, 2019. I think it's very likely to be a best seller. I can't recommend it strongly enough.
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