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Irreligiosophy

80: Nathan Phelps

Irreligiosophy

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2010

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss Fred Phelps of "God Hates Fags" Westboro Baptist Church fame with estranged son Nathan Phelps. We cover early years, the details of Nathan's leaving the church, and what happened later, as well as details of WBC theology and practices that only a family member could share.

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0:00.0

Good evening Godless sodomites.

0:02.0

Well, hello and welcome again to another edition of Irili Geosophy, the One True Podcast, where today we are actually speaking with Nathan Phelps, the son of the Westboro Baptist section.

0:23.0

Are you not going to hop in Charlie?

0:26.0

I mean, seriously, do I have to carry everything?

0:28.0

Welcome to the podcast Nathan.

0:32.8

Thanks you guys.

0:34.8

And before let's see one of our fans got in touch with you that's how this got set

0:39.6

up right one of our listeners.

0:41.6

Yeah actually someone on Facebook I think had written me a message and talked about you guys.

0:50.6

And before you got that message, had you ever heard of us

0:56.7

I'm sorry no

0:59.7

No, no actually we take that as a compliment. That's why we named ourselves the way we are.

1:04.7

That's why we asked it.

1:07.7

Well, you know, when he first mentioned it, of course,

1:10.1

I thought of that movie, and that maybe he was just mispronouncing it.

1:14.1

Right the religious. He's slightly more famous than we are.

1:18.4

Yeah. Not very much. We've got five listeners at least so yeah we're catching up so

1:27.6

take us through take us through your early life I mean when in studying for this interview it turns out that Fred Phelps who's your father is that right

1:37.6

That's right

1:38.8

Used to be a civil rights attorney back in the 60s

1:42.4

That's right he was He was fighting a good fight. He was striking down Jim Crow laws, getting

1:48.0

settlements for people who were discriminated against on the separate but equal segregation laws.

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