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A Rare Look Into Westboro Baptist Church

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March 3, 2011

Photojournalist Anthony Karen discusses his opportunity to meet with members of the Westboro Baptist Church in a Q&A with Washington Post readers.
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  1. marta kaye said,

    on March 10th, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    Westboro Baptist is an Odious Building that holds the KKK of yesteryear,– and is not a church.

  2. Marisa said,

    on March 10th, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    Rev. Phelps is getting old – so we’ll be RID of him one of these days….but his followers will undoubtedly carry on with his psycho-talk.

  3. Carol said,

    on March 10th, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    Don’t Baptists have a synod or governing body of some sort? As a non-Baptist I’m trying not to let the name of this church influence my perception of the other churches.
    That in itself is a lesson in how prejudices can fester and spread.

  4. Village Idiot said,

    on March 15th, 2011 at 11:09 pm

    That’s the thing, Carol …

    Baptist churches have no governing body. Often, they have no fixed ecclesial polity to follow, no inter-church relations, and no external standards by which to assess their corporate identity. There is no one to whom to appeal to redress problems in leadership, and the list could continue.

    The existence of ecclesiastical polity, interchurch relations, etc. certainly doesn’t preclude all problems. But they do put in place consistent, principled and rational procedures for redressing abuses, excesses and malfeasances perpetrated in the name of God. The absence of such measures is an open invitation for financial and human abuses of many kinds.

    This might be why some personality types are drawn to the situation the way flies descend on dead fish.

    Village Idiot

  5. MrsCaptJack said,

    on April 23rd, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    I find it very interesting and quite telling that the members of this “church” are so terrified of God. Reverence is one thing, terror is quite another.

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