{"id":65930,"date":"2017-11-14T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=65930"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:53:23","slug":"leaving-westboro-baptist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/leaving-westboro-baptist-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Westboro Baptist Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/bVV2Zk88beY\/maxresdefault.webp\" \/>A few years ago I became fascinated by the Westboro Baptist Church, the media-savvy\u00a0Christian group who picket the funerals of US soldiers, and who seem to delight in telling everyone that they&#8217;re going to hell.<\/p>\n<p>Since the time when this group first came\u00a0on my radar, I have been aware that several members of the family at the centre of the\u00a0organization have since left the church. Below is a video of Megan Phelps-Roper, talking about how she came to leave. I think it&#8217;s really instructive watching, particularly for those of us who\u00a0all too easily write off\u00a0someone as incapable of change and a lost cause&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bVV2Zk88beY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I became fascinated by the Westboro Baptist Church, the media-savvy\u00a0Christian group who picket the funerals of US soldiers, and who seem to delight in telling everyone that they&#8217;re going to hell. Since the time when this group first came\u00a0on my radar, I have been aware that several members of the family at the centre of the\u00a0organization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4544,4545],"class_list":["post-65930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-megan-phelps-roper","tag-westboro-baptist-church"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65931,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930\/revisions\/65931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}