THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH
American Hysteria
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Fred Phelps and the Puritans
After transferring from bob jones university to john mere college, he soon became the most annoying man on campus. He was told by the principal to leave campus if he could not stop harassing students. And so, in a style he would mimic all his life, he walked across that public street, held up his signs and just yelled louder. His family watched as he suddenly became a raving fanatic, an actual street creature who would soon cut off all contact with the life he had known. But this raving fanatic was still fred phelps, still meticulous and organized and determined to a terrifying degree. That fred p Phelps took on is not unlike that of the first colonists in america
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