Megan Phelps-Roper on Breaking the Cycle of Generational Pain
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to former Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper about her experiences growing up in the church, the problem of radicalization in society and modern institutions, considering the individual perspectives of the people who we disagree with, and more.
Megan Phelps-Roper is an American political activist who was formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps-Roper left the church in 2012 after she was unable to reconcile her doubts with her beliefs. She travels around the world to speak about her experience in the church and advocates dialogue between groups with conflicting views. In 2019, she released a memoir, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over |
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| 1:44.6 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 1:46.6 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. |
| 1:52.1 | My guest today, I think, has a lot to tell us about what happens when family trauma and patterns go terribly wrong. |
| 2:05.0 | I'm talking about Megan Phelps Roper, whose grandfather was the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church. |
| 2:12.0 | And you can see, and I think it's especially painful to see if you are a parent of young children, |
| 2:18.5 | you can see pictures and videos of Megan at like five years old, protesting, you know, funerals of military veterans, |
| 2:28.0 | holding up, you know, horribly offensive signs. It's, it was, it was, she was basically in a, in a dark cult, homophobic, |
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