Jerry Falwell Dead!

There is no good reason to celebrate death, regardless of the life it takes.

Whatever your response, it is a direct expression of his influence on your behavior. Why give him any power?

It would be charitable to present an idea that Jerry Falwell, like most unenlightened people, did not recognize his lack of mastery over his own intentions. He may have believed he was doing the greatest good, but his words appeared to be antithetical to the omnipresent, omniscient benevolence in whose name he claimed to speak. His leadership influenced the suffering of many people.

From now on, Jerry Falwell will say nothing new to cause or eleviate suffering. His influence will live on only as long as anyone responds to it. It is up to you to decide whether his ideas will fade into oblivion or influence how you relate to the world.

Why give him any power?

Peace and Love

 

This is kind of off topic, but I believe that death is a cause to celebrate the life of the deceased. Death is a part of life that most people want to deny. As for Jerry's life, I don't see too much to be proud of.

Peace and love

 

Yeah, it's cause to celebrate because there's one less hypocrite brainwashing people of what they need to do to be a "true christian". Among Falwell's off-the-wall rants is his aversion to cartoons like the teletubbies. LOL.

What did Falwell's "Moral Majority" accomplish anyway but to further polarize and divide a society that is already polarized and divided to begin with.

I don't think the majority of people today are more "moral" or more "christian" either.

 

Yeah, it's cause to celebrate because there's one less hypocrite brainwashing people of what they need to do to be a "true christian". Among Falwell's off-the-wall rants is his aversion to cartoons like the teletubbies. LOL.

Yeah, watching teletubbies cartoons will keep you away from Falwell's version of heaven while hating your fellow human beings like gays, lesbians and murdering a million Iraqis will earn you the Kingdom of God.

What did Falwell's "Moral Majority" accomplish anyway but to further polarize and divide a society that is already polarized and divided to begin with.

I don't think the majority of people today are more "moral" or more "christian" either, unless Jesus Christ told you to love your fellow man while yet supporting a war that has killed a million+ Iraqis and taken 3400 American lives so far.

 

I wish I'd said this, but I'm just not quite as eloquent:

"The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called reverend. Who would, even at your network, have invited on such a little toad to tell us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness and were God's punishment if they hadn't got some kind of clerical qualification? People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup.

The whole consideration of this - of this horrible little person is offensive to very, very many of us who have some regard for truth and for morality, and who think that ethics do not require that lies be told to children by evil old men, that we're - we're not told that people who believe like Falwell will be snatched up into heaven, where I'm glad to see he skipped the rapture, was just found on the floor of his office, while the rest of us go to hell."...

Christopher Hitchens on Jerry Falwell, 16th May, 2007, on CNN

 

he was still human.

 

If you liked Jerry Falwell, what did you like?

If you did not like Jerry Falwell, what did you dislike?

I, for one, look forward to a time when I don't have to hear the hatred and stupidity he seems to have inspired.

Peace and Love

 

A legacy of Jerry Falwell inspired version of "fundamentalist right-wing christianity". Doing the work of God by spreading hate, bigotry and prejudice. Even Satan must be jealous.

 

Actually the above picture is a man from the westboro baptist church.They actually hate jerry fallwell and are going to picket his funeral.This sick people have been picketing for over 30 years well before the moral majority was formed.

 

The Reverend Jerry Fuckwell, leader of the Oral Majority and all these other t.v. evangelists' legacy. How to be a "Christian asshole" and make some money too...

 

I wanna buy a bloodstain shaped like jesus! Please lord if only you could send me this one thing in my life, let it be the essence of decay that runs from his veins.

 

I looked. There are 128 items on eBay dealing with Jerry Falwell, mostly signd copies of his books, but several Extra Editions of the Lynchburg News and Advance announcing his death. Selling for $5 each. 1000% markup. Nice.

Memorial t-shirts, black ribbon tribute magnets, 60th birthday celebration video (on VHS HAHAHAHA) bobblehead dolls (HAHAHAHAHAHA) and lots of signed bibles.

Fucking vultures.

 

That is GREAT News!

Now, he can dwindle back into the atmosphere and infiltrate Pat Robertson's tea.

 

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Leonard Pitts Jr.

A few words about Jerry Falwell's finest hour.

Some would say his life did not produce many such hours but, rather, a surfeit of regrettable ones. Like in 1958 when he preached that God meant black Americans to serve white ones. Like in 1985 when he offered warm support to the apartheid government of South Africa and denounced Bishop Desmond Tutu as a "phony." Like in 1999 when he published an article warning parents that Tinky Winky of the toddlers' show "Teletubbies" was gay. Like in 2001, when he blamed abortion providers, gay-rights proponents and the American Civil Liberties Union for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Though seldom as flat-out nutty as Pat Robertson, the Rev. Falwell, who died Tuesday of a heart ailment, nevertheless had an uncanny ability to miss the moment. Time after time when great issues of the day demanded moral leadership, the founder of the Moral Majority proved himself bereft of same.

Which is what makes that finest hour fine.

It happened in 1999 when Falwell and other Christian conservatives met with a group of gay, lesbian and transgendered people of faith. As gay observers condemned the gay delegation for its involvement and his fellow Christians excoriated Falwell for his, the two groups worshipped together and talked.

Falwell and the Rev. Mel White, leader of Soulforce, a group of gay Christian activists, said they organized the meeting out of a sense that the language between them and the groups they represented had become harsh, acrid, unChristian. If they could not change one another's minds, they reasoned, perhaps they could at least change one another's words. In the spirit of the moment, each apologized for hateful language directed at the other. It was a brave and moral moment.

In a column I wrote at the time, I warned both sides that, while it's easy to stigmatize anonymous others, it would become a lot more difficult after they had spent time in one another's company, gotten to know each other a little. "How," I asked, "do you go back to being who you were and hating as blindly as you did?" The answer, I said, is that you don't.

Which was way too optimistic. It wasn't quite two years later that Falwell blamed gays for the terrorist attacks. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

 

Wow! There must be a god lol