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.
An unflinching powerhouse This story is an amazing testament to the par of narrative to shape our lives. More than any other force, the stories we construct to create meaning in our lives drive us forward. Phelps-Roper manages to write the power pf her own story without being maudlin or pitying. She has a clear eye to the joy and the tragedy of what she became inside WBC and she conveys a powerful inner monologue to draw you in to an isolated world. This is a must- read for everyone, but especially for someone who wants to understand the flaws to which we are all susceptible as humans: the dangerous ways in which we can use certainty and even love to create great depths of hatred and pain in others and in ourselves.Am Important Read I think a lot of people need to read this book. An exercise in empathy for everyone. A lesson well taught that matter what, we are all people.Be Careful ... Read with CAUTION ... You Could Walk Away Changed. Megan ... thank you for sharing your incredible journey with the world. A story so engaging that I could not put the book down. Entertaining and insightful! It is clear to me that you are a life-long learner. I hope you make a bunch of money off this book. But, I just know deep in my heart that was not your motivation in writing it. I believe you published this for what I am about to say: I love the words, I will read sections again from time to time and refer to my highlights, I am forever changed by what you have shared....Acceptance and agreement are two different things. We don't have to agree on ANYTHING to love one another...."Open discourse and dialectic is the most effective enabler of the evolution of individuals and societies. That the answer to bad ideas is to publicly reason against them, to advocate for and propagate better ones." (Phelps-Roper, Megan. Unfollow (p. 277). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition. )
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