The rather lengthy article written by Adrian Chen, concerning the development of empathy in one of the Phelps-Roper children, is extremely hard to understand at times. This is not due to a poor writing or grammatical structure, but an incomprehensible display of indifference towards the less fortunate. Countless times Megan Phelps-Roper cites horrible displays of inconsiderate acts that her family and she have committed. “Throughout the nineties, Westboro members crisscrossed the country, protesting the funerals of aids victims and gay-pride parades,” (Chen) the protesting extended to even fallen soldiers, celebrities and even victims of 9/11, “When Phelps-Roper was younger, news of terrible events had given her a visceral thrill. On 9/11, she was in the crowded hallway of her high school when she overheard someone talking about how an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. “Awesome!” she exclaimed, to the horror of a student next to her. She couldn’t wait to picket Ground Zero.” (Chen). When the members of the Westboro church were not able to physically attend the funeral of a non-repentant they took to the internet. Megan Phelps-Roper had been a writer for her church’s belief but once she found Twitter she loved it, and that was because “Twitter let her talk to large numbers of people without the filter of a journalist,” (Chen). How could a group of people be so filled with hatred for others and claim to be servants of God? Their justification was that everyone who wasn’t condemning the homosexuals were guaranteeing their trip to Hell by accepting them. “And the rest of the world hated them, too, by cheering them on as they doomed themselves to Hell,” (Phelps-Roper qtd. in Chen). As the article continues the reader is shown the slow path to redemption that Morgan Phelps-Roper strives for. It all starts with her loss of faith in the common ideal of her family that all homosexuals deserve death. She knows that the Bible would only condemn those who refuse to repent, but they have not been given the chance and she knows that her beliefs are flawed. After striking up various relationships with outsiders through the internet she comes to despise the messages she once carried on pickets, “‘god hates your feelings.’ They disregarded people’s feelings in order to break their idols,” (Chen). As an attempt to suppress her feelings of doubt she stopped discussion about her faith with those on Twitter, but her humanity won out. In the end she, “was beginning to see them as human,” (Megan Roper-Phelps qtd. in Chen) and decides to leave her home and accept others for and seek forgiveness for her emotional atrocities she had caused at the funerals of so many.