Meet the two defectors of the Westboro Baptist Church - Salon.com. In a surprisingly public display of soul-searching, two members of the hate-mongering Westboro Baptist Church are defecting. Fred Phelps’ granddaughter Megan Phelps-Roper declared Wednesday that she and her sister Grace have left their Kansas congregation, and apologized for the pain their organization has inflicted. Or, as she said in a text message to the Kansas City Star, “We ripped the Band-Aid off.” The Phelps name is strongly associated with the vile 83-year-old patriarch Fred, a man whose contribution to our national dialogue has, for the past several decades, consisted almost entirely of the motto GOD HATES FAGS. The Phelps clan and its congregation, Westboro Baptist Church, have earned themselves quite a reputation over the years, mostly for their penchant for showing up at funerals and gleefully spewing invective at mourners. What happens next for the Phelps-Ropers — aside from the going to hell part — is for them to decide.
But their story isn’t just theirs to write. Discouragement for young writers — I.M.H.O. — Medium. (7) Iptim. Hourly forecast for Helsinki, Southern Finland (Finland) yr.no. Proper Breathing when playing a Harmonica. To play like a pro, it’s essential that you learn how to breathe correctly. It’s the only way to produce notes that sound full and pleasing to the ear without running out of breath. Blows and Draws Each note on the harmonica is produced by blowing or drawing on the holes.
In some instances, you’ll also change the pitch of a draw or blow note with a technique called bending (see How to Bend Notes on the Harmonica). Blow notes (blows): Notes sounded by blowing into the harmonica Draw notes (draws): Notes sounded by sucking air out of the harmonica Nearly all beginners make the understandable mistake of assuming that to play blows they should just blow into the harmonica as they would a balloon, and that to play draws they should suck in air as they might do to smoke a cigarette.
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Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores. Strong emphasis, aka bold, with asterisks or underscores. Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores. Strikethrough uses two tildes. Lists 1. First ordered list itemAnother item Unordered sub-list. . [! Adam Gopnik: When did faith start to fade? In Tom Stoppard’s 1970 play “Jumpers,” the philosopher hero broods unhappily on the inexorable rise of the atheist: “The tide is running his way, and it is a tide which has turned only once in human history. . . . There is presumably a calendar date—a moment—when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, the noes had it.” Well, when was that date—when did the noes have it? In 1890? In 1918, after the Great War? In 1966, when Time shocked its readers with a cover that asked whether God was dead? The most generous poll never seems to find more than thirty per cent of Americans saying they are “not religious or not very religious,” though the numbers get up to around fifty per cent in Europe.
There’s a case to be made that the change is more like pulses than like tides. Only in the past twenty or so years did a tone frankly contemptuous of faith emerge. A history of modern atheism—what did Voltaire say to Diderot?