The Onion Really Seems to Get the WBC

The Onion offers an entirely-sarcastic-yet-entirely-believable history of Topeka’s soon-to-be-historically-irrelevant Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s a snippet:

According to one of his estranged sons, Fred Phelps, the founder and longtime leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, is in gravely ill health. Here is a look back at some of the milestone moments in his controversial church’s history:  1929-2014: Fred Waldron Phelps is born, beginning a period of nearly 85 years during which not a single moment of doubt passes through his mind 1951: Margie Simms, the future Mrs. Phelps, meets the love of her life 1955-2014: Nobody cracks open a Bible 1968: Jesus Christ personally visits Fred Phelps in one of his dreams and asks what the fuck is wrong with him 1972-1979: The disco years

(h/t Hemant Mehta)

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