Nate Phelps, the son of faux-Christian hate peddler Fred Phelps, recently presented a paper at the American Atheists Convention titled The Uncomfortable Grayness of Life. There is simply too much good stuff to quote here, so just go read it for yourself (it’s lengthy, but totally worthwhile). Oh, heck, here’s a tasty morsel:

His desire to get back in shape was, in and of itself, a good and even necessary thing. However, true to his character, my father took a personal desire to improve his health and turned it into an obsession that impacted the entire family. Soon, we would arrive home from selling candies, only to get back in the cars and head over to the high school to run 5 or 10 miles around the track. Charts were hung up all around the house, tracking progress and setting new distance goals. Running the marathon became my father’s Holy Grail; learning of a marathon that was coming up nearby, he stepped up our training to run 15 and then 20 miles. As grueling as this regiment was, none of the children dared complain.

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