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“One day, she texted Grace, ‘What if the God of the Bible isn’t the God of creation? We don’t believe that the Koran has the truth about God. Is it just because we were told forever that this is How Things Are?’ She added, ‘Does it really make you happy when you hear about people dying or starving or being maimed? Do you really want to ask God to hurt people? I ask myself these questions. I think the answer is no. When I’m not scared of the answer, I know the answer is no.’”

While Facebook burns down in xenophobia and racism, and people allow their worst fears, however unlikely, to take over their better instincts, Adrian Chen documents how Megan Phelps-Roper (granddaughter of Fred Phelps and member of the horrible, awful Westboro Baptist Church) opens her mind and sees that maybe things aren’t quite the way she’s been taught.

It’s a somewhat remarkable story about the good that comes to being open to other people’s points of view.

(Via Adrian Chen in the New Yorker.)