6/30/2023 0 Comments Megan phelps roper unfollow![]() ![]() This story was originally published October 24, 2019, 5:00 AM. ![]() … Overwhelmed by a sudden pressing need to leave that instant, every part of my body hummed with a single vicious accusation: You don’t belong. I didn’t deserve to be part of this body of believers. I thought of my mother, and the guilt was crippling. And if the church was right? Then asking those questions and even beginning to consider their implications was an unforgivable betrayal of everyone I had ever loved and the ideals I’d dedicated my life to defending. I had wasted my life only to fill others’ with pain and misery. ![]() If we were wrong, then I had spent every day of my life industriously sowing doom, discord, and rage to so many - not at the behest of God, but of my grandfather. With stark clarity I understood that whether the church was wrong or right, I was a monster. ![]() I crossed a chasm in that split second, pursuing a thought my mind had never truly imagined and now could never take back. 'Unfollow' is a memoir written by Megan Phelps-Roper, who was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an infamous religious group known for its. Here, Phelps-Roper recalls her moment of epiphany about Westboro on July 4, 2012, when the idea of leaving began to take form as she and her younger sister Grace were painting basement walls in the home of a new church member. From Chapter 6 of “Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church” by Megan Phelps-Roper, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ![]()
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