Right-Wing Televangelist Jerry Falwell Dies
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a pioneer among televangelists who later became a leading voice in the national debate over Christian values, has died at the age of 73. Falwell was found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.
A fundamentalist preacher, Falwell burst onto the national scene in 1979, when he launched an organization he presumptuously called the Moral Majority. Critics liked to say that it was neither. What is undisputed is that the Moral Majority became the vehicle that carried millions of born-again Christians out of their separatist tendencies and into the center of political activism.
They did it by bringing politics to the pulpit, getting churches to hand out voter guides, and creating get-out-the-vote drives that would become the envy of many a politician. The religious right was born - and Falwell became its chief spokesman. The goal was to overturn the Supreme Court’s ban on school prayer and reverse the nation’s direction on feminism, abortion and gay rights.
“I believe that homosexuality is moral perversion,” Falwell told NPR in 1996. “I think it is a violation of the laws of nature, as well as the laws of God. I do not think that that gives me permission to be unkind or ungracious to a person who may be living a homosexual lifestyle.”
In some ways, Falwell was an unlikely religious leader. He was born Aug. 11, 1933, and grew up in Lynchburg, the son of a one-time bootlegger who hated preachers. His grandfather was a staunch atheist.
But Falwell heard the call while listening to a radio preacher. He built a church from scratch - Thomas Road Baptist - in Lynchburg. It grew to a mega-church of well over 20,000 members. He started a Christian school, then a college and most recently a law school, raising much of the money from his television ministry. Critics said he spent more time asking for contributions than ministering to viewers.
Falwell followers saw him as a capable defender of decency and of godly values, but he often had detractors gnashing their teeth. He once told a gathering of ministers that the anti-Christ is a Jewish male who is alive in the world today.
Two days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, during an appearance on Pat Robertson’s television show, Falwell claimed that the attack was God’s judgment on America’s immorality.
“I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians, who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way - all of them who try to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.’”
Later, Falwell apologized, saying his remarks were insensitive and that he never meant to blame anyone except the terrorists.
Barry Lynn, leader of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, has been one of Falwell’s harshest critics over the years. Lynn says Falwell was wrong about everything, but he does give Falwell credit for standing up for his beliefs.
“He was the key point-man in the creation of the modern-day religious right. And for a lot of Americans, he will be forever the face of the religious right,” Lynn said.
In the late 1980s, the Moral Majority disbanded and Falwell went back to saving souls. Other groups took over the political legwork. In terms of legislation and constitutional amendments, the Moral Majority failed. But it did force politicians to address questions many would rather have avoided.
And Falwell’s legacy of spurring religious conservatives into political action has hardly abated. One example: Christian protesters and their allies in Congress forcing the nation’s attention on Terri Schiavo.
Falwell added his voice to that debate, referring to the Schiavo case as part of America’s “death syndrome.” It started, he said, with the “legalization of abortion - now euthanasia.”
Copyright 2007 NPR
I’m sure St. Peter has already showed him to the “other” elevator.
Outta my way… I gotta go out to celebrate…! When a few more of ‘em drop dead, drinks are on the house…!
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
Two questions. What were Jerry’s total net assets at the time of his death? What was it his Savior said about a camel and the eye of a needle? Just wondering. Would like to ask the latter of Romney too.
ComputerGuy,
There may be some more deserving guys (hint: some of them are thinking about what havoc they can cause in Iran right now), but Falwell was pretty deserving too. I think we should all share our fond memories of the man. My fondest memory is
And that’s the best I can say about him.
Maybe God does exist, After all………….
THE MORAL MAJORITY IS NEITHER.
It is not my place to pass judgment - I’m just glad that Falwell is beginning to rot, not ascend to heaven. I only wish that he was alive to know that he is rotting, not ascending…
Falwell was the living proof of America’s ignorance. Now he is dead but there are a lot of worthy candidates to take his place.
Schadenfreude is such an ugly sin.
The difference between Jerry Falwell’s brand of Amerikan Kristianity (TM) and the Christianity I do my best to practice is the knowledge that if Falwell and Bush aren’t forgiven, neither am I.
RIP Jerry. What a rude awakening the face of a loving Christ will be for you! What horrified contrition will overwhelm you when you KNOW, immediately and eternally, not only how you’ve erred, and led others into ditches, but that the forgiveness you denied excruciatingly minor lapses is being graciously extended to your gross dereliction of a Christian life by the Christ you claimed to speak for. Luckily, you’ll get over the shock, as do we all, and join a banquet prepared for you from before Creation. See you there…
I do look forward to ‘things hidden being shouted from the rooftops’ (like the cause of his death and the contents of his diary), mainly because revealing the shoddy, hypocritical, and venal reality of this man will tar all his hateful causes with the same brush, and perhaps save both some lives and some souls.
Now well just be waiting on Pat Robertson…
I was just kidding. I’ll pile it on now:
Go Pat! Go Jimmy! Go Teddy! No, Teddy already left the Springs and boy, that was a nice day! Here’s hoping the angela Michael comes to Jimmy (Dobson) dressed as Lucifer to scare him to death and then when he was passed say “Ha! Just kidding! Oops. Oh well.”
Wow, those righty xtians sure got the meth and male hookers out of his office prety darn quick.
Remember this lovely crack-induced rant?
“I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians, who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way - all of them who try to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.
BTW, Jerry is currently roommates with Saddam in hell. Nobody likes a sanctimonius, snivelling, biggoted, self-rightious fat-assed twit, ESPECIALLY GOD
They should bury him face down in the Castro district of SF, so the local gays can use his big fat ass as a bike stand. Maybe THEN his life would not be COMPLETELY without merit and usefullness.
Yeah… Saddam as a roomate. That’s great! I could be wrong but my gut tells me those 72 virgins wear chastity belts with strap on dildos with rusty nails and razor blades.
I like the picture that goes with the story, Falwell and McCain-kinda has a ring doesnt it?
I forgive you Jerry Falwell.
I don’t wish any man ill - not even George Bush or Jerry Falwell. He’ll have to give account before God for what he did in this life, as surely as I will. But at least one thing I have against him is his exhortation against Moslems, to: “…blow them all away in the name of the Lord”. He had no business to say that, and I pray that he repented of it.
God is dead, Jerry. Lucky for you.
Jerry is smoking a flaming turd in hell right now, as will all these rich, fake christians
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:25).
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, “You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.” When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
I don’t believe the guy was religious. Just a huckster suckering fools out of their money. These quasi religious guys are just thinly vieled politicians who shouldn’t have tax exempt status. Let’s keep the seperation of religion and the state.
They are just another political lobby group with too much power.
Yo Jerry!!! Let me know how that “Reign in Hell” thing worked out.
Peace to you and yours.
He has a lot of explaining to do on how he abetted and condoned a crooked government.
Everyone sing: “Ding dong, the witch is dead!”
One down…
Mr. Falwell is learning that there is no God and that whatever afterlife there is, if any, is not based on a myth that mankind came up with so he wouldn’t feel so alone in the universe. Old Jerry is probably thinking what a waste his life was.
Good riddance. May that bigot burn in the fires he wished on so many. May his family be comforted in their own way and may he realize his own worst fears in the hell he created for himself … Good riddance…
According to Revelation, fat ass Jere will be sharing the golden cubicle (approx 2/3 the size of Australia) with Hitler and Mussolini, both Catholics, never excommunicated. Jere will also have to become a fruitarian, no meat in heaven just continuously fruit bearing trees. No change of seasons, no nighttime. Glaring glass-like streets of gold and lottsa noise ’round God’s throne. No idea which denomination will get the accommodations fronting the river. No sewage facilities which could be a problem for someone like Jere who is so fulla shit.Sounds like a helluva place to me. Or could it be that T Jefferson was right that Revelation is simply the ravings of a madman.
How can one be against abortion and not for birth control? Thank you Falwell for pointing out the obvious.
I wonder if any journalists plan on going to Jerry’s county probate court to read his will? Wouldn’t you like to know how many family values $$ he left to his immediate family?
Yippeee!
Farewell Falwell.
Happy trails - back home to Jesus!
Oh, happy day.
How about holding a coming-home party? Invite a few friends. Like GWB. - From his calling Jesus his fave philosopher, I’m sure he’d like to go home to Jesus, too.
I personally wish someone would help GWB go home to Jesus. Allow him that happiness any which way. Like gently lodging a bullet in his brain - no, wait: that would be wrong. His brain is probably too hard to find. Instead, let’s all shout: GWB go home!
GWB - go home to Jesus!
Find the Rapture now you too, Bushie! We’ll gladly help you on the way! We can hold a farewell-party for you. We can make you a nice tombstone - you can choose the spot for it. Anything you wish. We’ll take up a collection straight away - you’ll lack for nothing on this earth, if only you’ll choose to leave it and go home, home to Jesus. We’ll make your trip back home to Jesus so nice there’s no reason, no reason at all to wait! Oh, Bushie, pleeeze - go home to Jesus you too. Then at last you’ll be on the side of the angels.
As a gay man who has suffered greatly the judgements of my church, family, and friends….. everytime this fool opened his mouth it only made it worse.
I don’t believe in hell, and wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but I do believe in reincarnation and karma, and I hope he comes back to some society that is where ours was twenty years ago in regards to homosexual rights - as a gay man in a fundamentalist family. Let him have a dose of what he gave so many of us.
I don’t wish hell on him, but I’m glad he’s dead. What bothers me the most isn’t how stupid and irrational his statements were, but that a great many people followed him, which means we have a great many stupid people in this world. It is unbelievable to me, after some of the idiotic comments he made (only two of which are mentioned in this article), that reporters still reported what he said and sought him out for interviews. That every Republican nominee has traveled to Lynchburg to kiss his bigoted butt. Now we will have to endure days of them praising the twit to try and gain his followers votes. If there is just one Republican presidential hopeful that doesn’t go to his funeral and make comments about how great he was I’ll be surprised. If just one of them stays away from it all, there may be hope for this country yet. But that won’t happen. They will all praise him. And they’re all idiots.
And I’ll also say that John McCain used to be the one Repbulican I said I could vote for. But this time around he has shamefully sucked up to these crackpots, and I think it was fitting they put a photo of him with Falwell for this report.
I wouldn’t vote for McCain under ANY circumstances now. He’s just as much a hypocrit as any of them on the right, and most on the left…
While I do believe that the world is better off without the voice of Rev Jerry Falwell, I cannot ever rejoice over the death of any man. Rest In Peace, Jerry Falwell, and may God have mercy on your soul. Let us pray that the ideas died with the man.
I rejoice over the conversion of Jerry’s protoplasm from animate to inanimate. The world is so much better off with him resting in peace.
In the immortal words of Rush; Jerry has finally… assumed room temperature.
Oh man, I knew people would be dragging his corpse up and down the street.
He was a hustler imo. God, you could see it whenever he was on tv. He had the smirk of a carnival barker and the looks and demeanor of pro wrestling manager. In fact, had he not decided to profit religion, he would have likely been seconding heavily muscled brutes to the squared circle, shooting his mouth off in hockey barns while rabid fans hurled missles and insults and obscene gestures at him. To me he was Bobby Heenan holding a bible, laughing all the way to payday.
Maybe I’m trivializing him, but to me he was a trivial man. I mean, for all his moralizing, wasn’t he pals with Larry Flynt?
And I know he stirred up hatred toward gays and said all sorts of reprehensible things, thusly making a mockery of Christianity.
But as with all the other televangelists, Pat Robertson, Swaggart, Hinn, etc. I can’t help but feel dumb for ever being angry at them. I always get the feeling that they’re making suckers out of everyone, and not just the poor folks that sadly sent them money.
Well, I may not be a religious man (non-practicing Catholic here), but I’m sure he’s roastin’ right now. I’d also like to think that Jesus Christ got five minutes in a steel cage with him first.
Call me either highly naive or cynical, but don’t think for a minute that any of these “holy rollers” believe in God. Bush included.
probably had a copy of Hustler spread across his desk, with his latex-gloved hand wrapped around his little fat pudgie, “wailin’ away” for all he was worth. As he approached the rapture of a full white eye rollback — he keeled over shy of the mark. Now, rather than burn in hell, he can be force-fed California potato chips into eternity. (thanks to The Greaseman)
Up yours Jerry!!!
I am sad too
This just in. Jerry Falwell is dead at 73. What to say? What to say? Here goes.
Thanks for calling the Brown vs. Education Board of Topeka decision a Satanic Plot continuously from 1954 to 1967 and stopping to check a breath and hurl that epithet against gays. Thanks for starting a racially segregated school on 1967 to keep whites separate.
Thanks for starting the Moral Majority when you didn’t get your way with President Jimmy Carter and for accepting that Coors money even though you renounce drinking but not enough to get in the way of gaining power.
Thanks for calling the Metropolitan Community Churches “Brute Beasts” and Satanic (an old theme of his from his segratationist days)
Thanks for maintaining your ties to the racist Bob Jones University where you hired several of their faculty. You will recall Bob Jones University was responsible for spawning virulent Catholic hater and Ulster unionist the right Rev. Ian Paisley. Bob Jones University also claimed that blacks suffered the curse of Ham and argued that it was in the Bible that blacks would be subservient to whites.
Thanks for stating that when P.W. Botha was sworn in as Prime Minister of South Africa that white minority rule was part of “God’s great design.”
You further excelled your white supremacist self when you stated, “If Bishop Tutu maintains that he speaks for the black people of South Africa, he is a phony.” This was the start of your long spiraling decline. You lost $500,000 in contributions to your ministry. Even Reagan distanced himself from you.
Thanks for hawking “The Clinton Chronicles” in the 1990s and making false unsubstantiated allegations of running a murder incorporated in his native Arkansas while he was governor.
On this we are perplexed. Were you upset because, in your mind, he was getting away with murder or were you just jealous that your friends like Pik Botha of South Africa, Major D’Aubuisson of El Salvador (Who was dead by this time)and the Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios Mont were the only ones allowed to do this?
And Finally thanks for blaming the attacks of 9-11 on the ACLU, gays and NOW. Gee Jerry we’re sure gonna miss you up here. Your ability for self-parody knew no boundaries but in the end it was all banal as all bullies are. Maybe you can share that with Adolph Eichmann when you meet up with him for a chat.
That’s all forever now. We turn the page and forget you for eternity while we repair the damage to our civility, our society, our compassion for others and, yes, even our spiritual morality.
Rest in Heat.
Rick, faithful in the struggle for an American rebirth that places the value of compassion for people over hatred and narrow self-interest.
They say it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead, but how can I ignore all the harm this man did in his life? I hope he’s in heaven right now, getting a tounge-lashing from God. I further hope the job that the Big Guy gives him is to serve the souls of all those who died of AIDS.
I don’t believe Falwell, Bush and the other hypocrite born-again “Christians” really believe in God, but it would be deliciously ironic if there is one, because there would be a special place in hell reserved for these monsters if there is.
On his gravestone reads: here lies a man whose commonality to the world was when he finally reached his goal of going to the otherside there would finally be peace. bye bye shortcake, your feeling the peace and so are we!!
P.S. This guy was always used by the media as the devils advocate when they needed a countering voice so will this man of god finally find his calling now? only daddy satan knows..
” He once told a gathering of ministers that the anti-Christ is a Jewish male who is alive in the world today.”
Funny. I didn’t know that Bush was Jewish.
I don’t have TV, so I’ll miss the circus
The man was ringmaster of a festival of cruelty. Why are there so many people for whom ‘Christian love’ is pure hate?
I usually manage to find something nice to say about everybody. But the best I can say about Falwell is this: at least he did not live to do even more damage.
I’m a frequent reader of this site because it gives a voice to the poor and needy and the oppressed. It also works justice for their good by exposing the lies and hypocrisy of those in power. I would also like to think that it can provide a better example than the one given to us by the press and power that uses it.
If the comments in this thread are at all indicative of that example, than I’m afraid Commondreams.org is in trouble. You have no leg to stand on if you can honestly say in a public forum that it’s better for someone to be dead than alive. One man cannot be blamed for all this destruction. Jerry Falwell was a living, breathing human being. He had a soul. He made mistakes - that’s what human beings do. And today his life ended. If you can’t understand that, then you had better start questioning your own humanity before you turn your hatred on someone else. Otherwise, you will become the fundi that you hate.
I see my comment is no longer here. Is there censorship here? I’d like to know why my comment was removed.
teologia -
Adolf Hitler was a living breathing human also. Would the world have been better off without him in 1936?
Falwell celebrated AIDS as God’s punishment, in essence, celebrated the horrifying death of millions. I don’t think it’s too harsh to dance on the man’s grave.
jerry & ronnie are finally together in the repuke fry-o-lator, man it smells bad in here
telogia,
Yes, the world CAN be better off without a living breathing human being when that living breathing human being plays a major part in tearing a society apart. I don’t need to question my own humanity, it manifests itself every day. If I were to demonize an entire segment of the population(I should say segments, there were more than one), I could and should expect to have people celebrating my demise.
When someone does everything he can to tear down secularism and to try and force his questionable Christian ideas onto everyone else then I say good riddance. We’re better off without him.
He’s in God’s hands now, and what’s wrong with that? It’s only natural. It will happen to all of us.
isn’t organized religion wonderful?
Too bad he can’t have that last moment of “Oh my God!!!! There’s not one!!!!!!!
Another religious hypocrite who blamed the world’s ills on the “morally corrupt.” God comes in all shapes and forms.
How will the right put their friends and relatives in peachy jobs now that this religious corporation leader is gone.
Divine Intervention?
judge not; lest ye be judged!
That I believe was Jerry’s mistake, but its also a few posters here.
Jerry was a good example of what I don’t want to be!
One of the facets of Christianity that always eludes me is the insistence that Heaven is waiting for the faithful along with the rather opposite notion that staying alive is imperative. Why is it so important to keep, for example, all fetuses alive rather than having them go straight to the presence of God?
Before the pope made his proclamation that there actually is no Limbo, I could almost understand the Catholic point of view that babies need to be born in order to be baptized. However, now that we know there’s no Limbo, unborn, unbaptized babies go directly to Heaven. Do we really want to deprive them of that experience?
By the same token, all Christians who believe in Falwell’s message should be thrilled that he has died and is now wrapped in the arms of the Lord. I suppose I just don’t get it, not being a believer myself.
In any case, I don’t celebrate Falwell’s death; I simply don’t see it as much of a loss. The world is probably a better place for his demise. I once heard a Buddhist explain his belief that “evil” is simply a lack of understanding that we are all part of the same large system and people who seem evil just don’t realize that when they hurt others, they hurt themselves in some essential way. I have adopted that belief and try to live by it, not always successfully, but always with the effort. Religion should be more concerned with how to live a good, productive life than it should with what happens after we are gone.
Perhaps there is an afterlife, or perhaps we are somehow reincarnated (although I prefer to not speculate much). One would hope that in either case, each individual will grow in understanding of the interconnectivity of the universe and leave behind the pettiness, divisiveness, and bigotry that has been the earmark of Falwell and his followers.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Jerry Falwell is dead and to listen to the Christo-fascists and too many in the progressive community tell it: “there’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, tomorrow, just you wait and see”. Such visceral reaction shows that Falwell was a controversial figure whom most either dearly loved or firmly despised with only those ignorant of his public existence having any neutral reaction.
Jerry Falwell did not do anything more than a mirror. He was not the genesis but rather the revelation of the ugliness that was (and still is) too much a part of the US experience. Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, WASP exceptionalism, human-led theocracy–all existed before Falwell and continue after him. The only difference is that the masses animated by such visions are looking for a new totem before which they might bow. Make no mistake, they will find that totem—just as the yearning human heart always finds some new vision to worship.
Like Cinderella’s mirror his “magic” was nothing more than a reflection of the world in which he existed. Many of his followers and detractors were the ugly step-sisters either enchanted or revolted by his reflection of their world, those with Cinderella beauty used (and continue to use) his reflection to examine their own imperfections rather than the ugliness of what surrounds them.
My condolences to his family.
For the rest of us:
Every person brings joy to the universe - Some by their arrival and some by their departure.
This professional liar’s departure from our plane of existence is a loss only for those cretins embracing misogyny, racism, hatred, intolerance, deception, fraud, and countless other wonderful human traits.
For the rest of us, his passing is of no relevance - as was his miserable and pathetic message of crotch theology!
Are the rumors that the reverend Falwell died as a result of autoerotic self-asphyxiation true? I have yet to see a news report that either confirms or denies them.
teologia May 16th, 2007 2:43 am
[[He made mistakes - that’s what human beings do. And today his life ended. If you can’t understand that, then you had better start questioning your own humanity before you turn your hatred on someone else. Otherwise, you will become the fundi that you hate.]]
I thought everybody here wanted to end the war!
I think too many people here just want revenge. All I see for us is a future of chaos, and we will never get everybody on the same page; it’s pretty depressing to me.
You are doing the same thing Farwell did to others, it doesn’t matter “who is the better person” judging others, leads to blindness of what we want to accomplish.
Say good-bye to the Christians being on your side, you just polarized things and trashed any understanding.
You could say I’m secular, I believe in the Great Spirit that I see in nature, the universe and in us. I see where religions are trying to go and the truths they portray. We should follow no man as though they are perfect.
If you want to fix the world, each and every one of us holds a key to the puzzle. Until we understand Jerry Farwell, with all his faults; and how he got that way; we will repeat the same mistake in ourselves. That’s just common logic; nothing to do with religion!
There are some Christians who have always been on our side, and others (those like Falwell) who never will be because their minds are closed shut…. and keeing them shut is their security blanket…
Each of us does hold a key…. and denouncing someone who harmed so many is an important part of that. We never want another Hitler, so he should be denounced. We don’t want another Falwell either, so it’s good and right to denounce his views. I don’t like those comments about him roasting in hell, etc…. but I also understand the pain he has caused so many people, and for that reason I’m very understanding of the need for them to vent at this time…. May it help them heal to let that anger and frustration out.
I hate to say it, but my first reaction to news of his death was “Woo Hoo, he’s dead!”
Then I realized, there are hundreds of other power mad, money grubbing idiots out there ready and willing to take his place. It’s so sad, really, that idiots like Falwell and his ilk have morons who will follow them.
I know what it is to be in the midst of such a group, and to be, at least partially, influenced by them.
Because, deep down inside, I already knew that I am gay, I was terrified.
But more to the point, the hypocrisy appalled me.
Teaching that “interracial” marriage is wrong, meaning exclusively white & black. (They never applied it to other races, this group I was exposed to.)
Bragging about how many “ex-Baptists” one had.
Teaching that people who “speak in tongues” are “demon possessed” while selling JIMMY SWAGGART records.
Pushing the doctrine of Predistination, and insisting that one was “predestined” to be a Christian, whether they “wanted” to or not, and that they could actually die while committing adultery, and because of this, still go to heaven.
And I could go on.
Much of this was some of the churches I was dragged through, as a youth. Other of it was from the “private Christian schools” I was sent to.
But what I ultimately learned is that God is none of this. He is more, but nothing of what “modern Christianity” teaches, because it is totally distorted from what Jesus intended.
In doubt? Read the Gnostic Gospels, for a start. Study the facts behind the cannonization of scripture, as well. It’s an eye opening reality.
{{Until we understand Jerry Farwell, with all his faults; and how he got that way; we will repeat the same mistake in ourselves.}}
Why should we seek to “understand” this self-righteous charlatan? It is of no consequence to analyze this pathetic scoundrel’s road to spiritual perdition. Christians always offer a “measuring stick” - By their fruits ye shall know them…
Falwell had only rotten fruit - bigotry, contempt, sel-righteousness, objectification, kingdom-building, ad nauseum ad infinitum. If this creature was the “shining beacon” of what a true christian should emulate, then it is an empty faith.
To eulogize this spiritual sophist is a disgrace!
I am not disagreeing with anything said about him, I’m saying you will never understand the cause of any person’s faults including your own with that attitude. I guess you don’t have any faults.
I saw through this guy ever since I can remember I was never fooled. I know what to look for! I can reason with a person who follows an egotistical idiot, because I know the thinking.
Basically, don’t follow egotistical idiots.
When an egotistical idiot says the right thing to you, you will probably follow like a blind idiot too because they say the right thing you agree with.
Because you are thinking shallow.
I have as many faults as the next person - I simply know Halloween when I see it!
Falwell was a disgrace to his “faith” - as are most self-proclaimed bastions of righteousness. Karl Marx was correct in only one statement - religion is the opiate of society.
Without reservation:
“Ding, Dong; the witch is dead.
The witch is dead; the witch is dead. Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead.”
Mother Nature must reclaim her mistakes. There are many other mistakes to be reclaimed.
If we do not understand how so many people who start off meaning good get led into the mess we are in now; analyze them.
They start with a base of frustrated, fed up people, and push the buttons of hatred and revenge. They feed the flames by telling you how much your enemy hates you. Now you are fuming, but you see them as a leader and you start believing lies. It gets hard to differentiate what’s true and what’s not because you believe in the leader instead of your own judgment.
Now you are prime for button pushing, and they can convince you that not only your enemy has it in for you but also anyone that supports your enemy can easily be added to the list of enemies.
All I am saying is LEARN HOW IT’S DONE!
When I want a laugh, I check out the joke section. But all the above writers top the list. J.Falwell’s last breath has brought out the genius in all of you because I couldn’t stop laughing. Well, if this bigot accomplished anything, it was that all of the above remarks gave me a belly laugh. In actuality, there are still too many ignorant phony Christians out there who cause more grief to the innocent, to the gays, and to all freedom lovers. Don’t give up the fight for reason, fairness, and equality.
I am glad to see him go. His comments were always wrong: From Gay teletubies to Florida having natural disasters because of sin. The world has been made a better place by his death. He has done more damage to Christ and Christianity than any other modern day huckster minister.