I encourage everyone here with HULU to watch an episode of Sarah Silverman's new show I love America.
Her goal is to find common ground with people with differing views on religion, gay marriage, politics, BLM and many other issues that are dividing our country at the moment.
The part i found most interesting was her interview with Meghan Phelps roper formerly of the Westboro baptist Church. She was a strong believer in the beliefs of her church and picketed soldiers funerals and held GOD Hates Fags signs for the time she was 3 years old.
When she became the director of social media for the church she was attacked online daily and made fun of. One person engaged with her in a rational mannered way and questioned her beliefs and talked hem out with her. After talking to this person for over a year online she ended up laving the church and marrying the man.
She said the change in her came about because of his willingness to listen and not criticize or judge. So i am now going to take that tact from here on out. I am not going to trow insults. I am going to ask why people believe the things they believe and see if they can question long held beliefs.
Here is an a piece of the review
" She spoke to Megan Phelps-Roper, formerly of the Westboro Baptist Church, now (I quote from Wikipedia) “a social media activist, lobbying to overcome divisions and hatred between religious and political divides.” That simultaneously sounds like a job that doesn’t exist, a job that should exist, and one of the worst jobs on earth. The conversation went to unexpected places. A convert from Westboro’s doctrine, Phelps-Roper said that extremists “generally are not psychopaths. They’re psychologically normal people who’ve been persuaded by bad ideas.”
She recalled celebrating 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and all human tragedies, tried to explain how it felt to see everyone outside the church as “inherently evil.” The conversation turned, lightly, to Charlottesville, which Silverman and Phelps-Roper both treated as a somewhat generic example of extremism. And the conversation turned to Twitter: Phelps-Roper described how she started to doubt her family’s teaching once she joined the social media service, and even wound up married to someone Silverman described as “your Twitter troll!”
http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/12/sarah-silverman-i-love-you-america-hulu/
Her goal is to find common ground with people with differing views on religion, gay marriage, politics, BLM and many other issues that are dividing our country at the moment.
The part i found most interesting was her interview with Meghan Phelps roper formerly of the Westboro baptist Church. She was a strong believer in the beliefs of her church and picketed soldiers funerals and held GOD Hates Fags signs for the time she was 3 years old.
When she became the director of social media for the church she was attacked online daily and made fun of. One person engaged with her in a rational mannered way and questioned her beliefs and talked hem out with her. After talking to this person for over a year online she ended up laving the church and marrying the man.
She said the change in her came about because of his willingness to listen and not criticize or judge. So i am now going to take that tact from here on out. I am not going to trow insults. I am going to ask why people believe the things they believe and see if they can question long held beliefs.
Here is an a piece of the review
" She spoke to Megan Phelps-Roper, formerly of the Westboro Baptist Church, now (I quote from Wikipedia) “a social media activist, lobbying to overcome divisions and hatred between religious and political divides.” That simultaneously sounds like a job that doesn’t exist, a job that should exist, and one of the worst jobs on earth. The conversation went to unexpected places. A convert from Westboro’s doctrine, Phelps-Roper said that extremists “generally are not psychopaths. They’re psychologically normal people who’ve been persuaded by bad ideas.”
She recalled celebrating 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and all human tragedies, tried to explain how it felt to see everyone outside the church as “inherently evil.” The conversation turned, lightly, to Charlottesville, which Silverman and Phelps-Roper both treated as a somewhat generic example of extremism. And the conversation turned to Twitter: Phelps-Roper described how she started to doubt her family’s teaching once she joined the social media service, and even wound up married to someone Silverman described as “your Twitter troll!”
http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/12/sarah-silverman-i-love-you-america-hulu/