Phelps-Roper begins to perceive her community’s actions as atrocious hate crimes towards other groups of people, thus leading Phelps-Roper to reject her community due to the negative connotations she associates with them.Īn individual will reject a community’s ideology if that community’s morals do not coincide with the community’s ethics. Phelps-Roper feels as if she is being brainwashed by her family and the members of the Westboro Baptist church consequently, she rejects her family’s ideology when her family fails to give her an explanation as to why the community hurls offensive language towards non-members of their communities.īy analyzing the character Phelps-Roper in “Unfollow”, the reader can witness how the individual chooses to sustain or reject the community’s beliefs and traditions based on their moral and ethical values, which are applied towards judging the community’s belief systems. The Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for anti-semitic, prejudiced, unjust and intolerant remarks towards members beyond their community. Phelps-Roper grew up as a member of the Westboro Baptist Church ever since birth however, as Phelps-Roper blossoms, she begins to interact beyond the secular community that she knew all her life she starts questioning her own religion and slightly shifts away from it step-by-step. In the short story “Unfollow,” by Adrian Chen, Megan Phelps-Roper, an ex-member of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, serves to illuminate the nature of faith in an individual’s mind.

Faith cannot be imposed upon anyone because it comes deep from inside one’s heart.

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