
Unfollow
A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
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Megan Phelps-Roper
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Megan Phelps-Roper
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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.
©2019 Megan Phelps-Roper (P)2019 Audible, Inc.The author clearly expresses the huge dangers of black and white thinking - the craziness and cruelty of blanket certitude.
Timely
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utterly fascinating
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Incredible
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This Book is a Neccesity!
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Stories about motivated thinking, cultish behaviours always fascinate. I think because it’s horrific, and a good reminder to think critically. A check-in: what positions do you have that are indelible, and how did you come by them? A woman who grew up in a church that subjugated and molded young women like her is now witnessing in our polarized society, eerily similar rhetorics regarding the way we speak to one another. It really is disturbing.
Good story, probably not a surprise to anyone who had read something similar, but told well, earnest, well structured. It’s a bit unmoored in time and place sometimes, making it confusing. But otherwise she goes far more granular than I had expected and think this is a very smart move by her, since her family who ostracize her may actually read it. I didn’t even know about the whole god hates fangs in True Blood referencing this real life church doctrine. Wild.
Well narrated and interesting story throughout
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Two things can be true
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Enlightening
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Timely and Important
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A thoughful account from an admirable thinker
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A profoundly inside story of love and struggle
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