Jerry Falwell Dead!

to, Heaven, right? :tongue:

 

Hopefully it was agonizing and painful.

 

Yeah I laughed a little when my girlfriend told me about this. I am morbid.

 

he was a man of integrity and consistency and real courage and bravery in taking a public stance in what he believed in

 

^ true

 

I wouldn't want his Karma

but

I would love to hear his apology.

 

that was the stupidest thing i ever said

 

Seriously, I don't hate Falwell, but I didn't like him either. He did an enormous amount, along with Ronald Reagan, to politicize "Christianity", which, all in all, I think was a very bad thing. Before Reagan and Falwell, religion was pretty much left out of American politics. After they came on the scene, it seemed as though it was obligatory for candidates to get into this whole religious debate, that, for the most part, really has no substantive meaning at all. Large numbers of conservative Protestants now trot off to the polls voting for their "good Christian" candidate, oblivious to the real facts of what those people are about. A documentary that was on TBN one day before the last presidential election, "The Faith of George W. Bush" :lol: is a prime example of the religious idiocy that's been injected into politics since Reagan and Falwell.

And the kind of "Christianity" that they espouse is a pro-war, pro-unbridled capitalism, uncompassionate ideology, that actually has nothing to do with Christianity anyway. The whole Reagan/Falwell politico-religious ideology has dumbed down the American electorate, and the country in general, to dismal levels. Falwell, Reagan, and the other bimbos that supposedly "saved America" certainly won't be missed by me.

 

It's really against my nature to speak ill of the dead, no matter who they are, but...

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

does this mean it's now safe for spongebob and tinky-winky to celebrate their civil union in connecticut?

 

i think a bunch of pagan veterans should get together and donate a tombstone with a pentacle on it to his memory.

 

i heard harry potter was going to lead their handfasting ceremony.

 

freinds and foes admired his dauntless spirit

 

Falwell was true dinosaur and among those instrumental in the polarization of American politics, but I'm still not dancing on his grave. It's between him and God now.

 

Ever since I can remember I have regarded Falwell as an enemy of sorts, not the sort you shoot at, but the kind you say 'no' to. The kind you oppose over and over and over again, all your life if need be. He hardly said or did anything in public that I didn't think wrong, to say the very least.

But the fact is he is no longer here to confront, much less to make life harder for the rest of us. The man is no longer a threat to me or mine. He is just another indivual who met his own mortality, alone and most likely in pain, just like many of us will in due time. All his beliefs, all his fortune, and all his political agendas added up to nothing in that moment, in much the same way that mine and yours won't mean a damn thing when death comes for us. Falwell wasn't refuted; he wasn't convinced, and he certainly wasn't proven wrong today. He died; that's all. There was nothing exceptionally Christian about his death, nothing particularly Republican about it. It wasn't especially assenine or foolish. What happened to him today doesn't separate us from Falwell in any meaningful respect. Today, he was just another suffering human being facing the exact same limitation that will one day lay waste to every one of us.

Falwell's death is not a victory for the rest of us; its just a private and personal tragedy that ought to merit a little respect. No, not because death is sacred, but because human suffering is nothing to take pleasure in, not his, nor that of his family.

There is absolutely nothing to celebrate here.

 

Is there ever a reason to celebrate someone's death? I would say there is. I am glad that the world is now a world without Falwell. I'm sure many people were glad when the world was a world without Hitler, or Stalin, or Moussolini. Those are extreme examples, but what distinguishes them from Falwell?

 

My sympathies to Falwell's family but freakn' hurrah for the rest of us!!


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