D_Gunther Snotpole
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We're all ignorant, Onslow, wouldn't you say?
But I do agree with your implicit suggestion that you can't go wrong with kindness.
Perhaps the Fall of Fundamentalism in America Has Begun
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We're all ignorant, Onslow, wouldn't you say?
But I do agree with your implicit suggestion that you can't go wrong with kindness.
Onslow has a point. Regardless of what you think of Dr. Falwell and his "teachings," a man has died. Whether we found worth in him or not, someone did and there are people grieving. Just as we find it offensive when Fred Phelps disrupts a funeral, we can at least let those that did appreciate him grieve without us hurling invectives. We're better than that. Maybe the best thing to do is forget about him. He can only affect people still if he is given attention. His time is past. He's gone. If people are intelligent, they will be able to judge his worth. It's not our job. Let it go.
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Wait a sec... I'm a LIBERAL?
Dear God.
P.S.: I'm still happy Jerry Falwell's dead. Call me an asshole, then. Go ahead.
You don't get it, do ya kid?
(and no, I won't call you a rear body part--you're entitled to your opinions, I was merely expressing mine.)
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A co-worker of mine read that Falwell had died. I made the comment that there were plenty more "raging homophobe media whores" waiting to take his place. He flipped out on me, accusing me of verbal christian bashing - as if my one comment was somehow infinitely worse than all the hateful pseudo-christian filth that man spewed throughout his lifetime.
Oh, aren't the old, wise man for calling me 'kid' - it's obviously you that doesn't get it. If I wanted to be treated in a condescending manner, I'd call my dad, thanks.
Thank you, Onslow. It makes me cringe whenever people proclaim their glee when someone else dies. I'm not glad Jerry Falwell's dead, I just wish he'd held different views while he was alive. I think everyone deserves a bit of respect when they pass on.
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Someone who called AIDS God's punishment for fags, and Katrina God's punishment for fags, are you kidding me? The guy who convinced the president of the United States to bluntly ignore the establishment clause? The one singular most damaging influence on pushing religion into education and government? He was hardly an innocent southern man, he was a shady preacher on the take, an egomaniac, and a heretic. I'm disgusted by ANYONE who could call filth like that a Christian.
Nope sorry, I'm glad he's dead, I haven't got anything nice to say about him, and if he can live a life in hatred of others, I owe him no better in death. Fuck that guy.
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At least we can take comfort in the fact that he is rotting in hell right along side Regan.:biggrin1:
I wonder if he died while getting it on with a prostitute.
I wonder if he died while getting it on with a prostitute.
I can certainly understand the feelings, Madame Zora. And certainly Jerry Falwell was neither a compassionate, nor a wonderful man, but he is dead now, I don't think it's necessary to remain angered by him.
He left us with a legacy of hate and intolerance, damage that we must now undo. You'll excuse me if I remind cold as ice towards that now-rotting douchebag.
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Thank you! We have to be the better people by not showing hatred like he did. We have to be the examples to the world--to show what's right.
madame_zora
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Each of us will do what we feel is right by our own morals. I am feeling a great need to rebuke this man as the heretic and ungodly man he was, and to bring to light why no man's words should ever substitute your own careful study. This is just a worthless person, not a saint or god himself. Calling himself a Christian certainly didn't make it so.
It's beyond high time that Christians understand that they don't get a free ride from judegment when they vocally judge others. It's beyond high time they understand that if they're going to hold ME accountable to laws I don't even agree with, they damned well best be prepared top show they are living them themselves. It's beyond high time Christians stop holding others to higher standards than they hold themselves- where were you twats when he was denigrating gays? *hears the crickets chirp* YOU are the ones who should have been renouncing him while he was alive, shame on you!
It's beyond high time Christians stop using the Bible and Jesus to justify war, judgement, and hatred. Enough already. If you can't even manage the most basic truth of your religion, shut the fuck up.
On the other hand, if hurricane Katrina was an act of God against the gays (according to Falwell), maybe we should not be presumptuous here.
Maybe Jerry's death was an act of God.
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I regret nothing about Falwell so much as that he convinced many that his kind of fundamentalism is Christianity. There are many of us who not only denounced him while alive for his range of stands from the inane (Attacking a teletubby) to the insane (Blaming 9/11 on homosexuals), but more than anything for sullying the reputation of Christianity almost beyond repair. I wish that I was able to let him rest in peace, but the most I can muster is to hope that God is as forgiving as I believe God to be, and not as judgmental as Falwell believed.
Mr. Snakey
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I really dont have an opinon on him one way or the other. I wouldnt speak ill of anyone who died anyway. Bad Karma is like a boomerang.
