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Other Fundamentalisms Play the Same Game

Megan recognized in a high-school mythology class that Westboro was making the same arguments as worshippers of Greek and Roman gods (bad things happen because you angered a deity), but deflected the parallel by insisting 'ours is the real god'—the same move all fundamentalists use, condemning others' scriptures for immoral content while ignoring the immoral content in their own.

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Speaker

Megan Phelps-Roper

Evidence Quote

we were making the exact same arguments but like ... well ours is the real god ... all these other people are wrong ... because their holy books have x y z clearly immoral things in them meanwhile they completely ignore the immoral x y z things in their own scriptures

Source

171 - Escaping A Christian CultMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:56:40 AM

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