Jerry Falwell Dead

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Yes, QFT (Quoted For Truth)

I like Quite F***ing True better than that.

By the way, I know what ditto means. So do most people in my age group (25-18 year olds), I reckon.

[Berzerker]

i think it is more the troops in the holy lands, corrupting their governments, you know, stuff that makes sense

[Berzerker]

So he's a murderer now?

not the kind who gets his own hands dirty

[SlowwHand]

If nothing else, one could say he helped provide balance.
Balance is important. Provoking thought is important. If you disagree with the position, it still provoked your thought.

I can think of many other deaths I would celebrate rather than this one.

[Imran Siddiqui]

who's the real hate monger here?

The guy who blasted homosexuals his entire career, speaking of them pejoratively, who referred to gay oriented churches as "a vile and Satanic system". The guy who said "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals." The guy who blasted homosexuals and atheists as being the reason God called for 9/11.

The guy who was in favor of segregation until it was political suicide to be so. Who referred to the Civil Rights Movement as the "Civil Wrongs Movement".

Yeah, the ******* in the coffin. Definitional hate monger... and the world's a better place without him.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I can think of many other deaths I would celebrate rather than this one.

Ming doesn't count .

[Ming]

Watch it

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Asher
Next up, Phelps...

Dr. Laura . . . . .

Pat Robertson . . . . .

Dobson (forgot his first name for moment) . . . .

[MrFun]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
If nothing else, one could say he helped provide balance.
Balance is important. Provoking thought is important. If you disagree with the position, it still provoked your thought.

I can think of many other deaths I would celebrate rather than this one.

There was nothing balanced about Falwell.

[SlowwHand]

Why is this a gay thing more than a jewish thing?
He also said the Antichrist was already among us, and was a Jewish male.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Wiglaf


So that 700 club comment is basically the only really awful thing he did? He founded a crappy school, so what. His ideas were not really "in the majority", so what. No reason to talk crap about someone dying. That is just sad.

Are you dense? That 700 Club remark was only ONE of his many wrongs.

[Wiglaf]

he provided balance. because as this thread shows, most people are amoral psychopaths who worship themselves when their enemies die, mate with their own gender (I cannot explain this myself) etc. in a world where most college campuses are all about immorality, liberty does not even allow students to think about porn much less watch it. disagree if you want but he provided balance

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by MrFun



Are you dense? That 700 Club remark was only ONE of his many wrongs.

expressing profound joy when an old man dies is a big wrong in and of itself,

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly

Less than 50 years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Falwell could write of America that "we have become one of the most blatantly sinful nations of all time." Falwell's theology, such as it was, never made clear how America could be both the promised land and Gomorrah at the same time.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/15/jerryfalwell/

All in all a good indictment of the the Falwell situation, except for the part quoted. Hiroshima demonstrated how effortlessly The USA could grab the moral low ground from the fascists to suit popular whimsy. This Stalin-esque rationalization of indicriminate slaughter showed just what an admirable legacy liberal-democracy "won" for the world.

Even assuming Falwell was referring to his own private set of "sins", he would be correct. And the whole point of the article is that he didn't have a theology but a political ideology, isn't it?

I've no admiration for anything Falwell accomplished, but if someone can truly view another man's death with glee, I think they have to look into their own souls and find nothing of worth. To that extent, the amount of celebrating done here is a testament to something Falwell represented that touched the conscience of many people, even if his words and actions were those of a cloddish buffoon.

Then again, given the nature of internet community, those people are probably just posting something, anything, to distract them from the depressing reality of their own isolation...

[Drake Tungsten]

Truly a sad day, but we can all take comfort in the fact that Reverend Falwell is now safely in God's hands and beginning his unending life in paradise. And if you follow his teachings and those of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you just might join him someday.