[Jack]

I saw a comment on another board that was, perhaps, the most cogent:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nother case of good plans gone bad as faulty methods were allowed to compromise what were originally good intentions. That's a story humans have been repeating for a while now.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', '
')The Rev. Jerry Falwell is dead.

Thoughts, comments?

[manu]

Looks like he will miss the rapture.

[Newsseeker]

He should have listened when Weight Watchers said give us a week we'll take off the weight.

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'h')ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18679412/

The Rev. Jerry Falwell is dead.

Thoughts, comments?

[gg3]

Jerry Falwell was an unreconstructed bigot of the worst order. But to my mind his most memorable performance was on TV with Pat Robertson, live in studio as the monitors behind them showed the World Trade Towers in flames.

Robertson said it was God's vengenace on America for tolerating abortions, homosexuals, and feminists. Falwell heartily concurred.

Now think back to how people would have felt, if upon turning on their radio on 7 December 1941, they had heard the following:

"Fellow Americans, at this very moment, our naval fleet at Pearl Harbor Hawaii is in flames and sinking. But we should regard the Imperial Japanese forces as avenging angels, sent by God, to punish America for the unforgivable sin of repealing the Prohibition Amendment. Intemperance is a sin, and the wages of sin are death..."

Right.

F---ing traitor as far as I'm concerned. Robertson too. And Dobson is no doubt a secret pedophile, by way of his instructions that fathers can prevent their sons becoming gay by showering together and pointing out the similarities in their, uh, anatomy.

One down, two more obvious ones to go, and a bunch more where they came from.

Too darn bad he wasn't found dead with his pants pulled halfway down and a bunch of freshly "DNA-stained" kiddie porn on his desk.

But finally that man will do some good for this world: by becoming compost.

As for where he is now, if there is a persisitent hereafter, then he is probably in one of its darkest and most loveless corners. Getting porked.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gg3', 'R')obertson said it was God's vengenace on America for tolerating abortions, homosexuals, and feminists. Falwell heartily concurred.

[Newsseeker]

This whole thing has just floored me. What a great man and personal hero. Oh, wait, no never mind. I did learn a valuable lesson about going one jelly donut too far.

[manu]

I know Jerry didnt believe in reincarnation but I swear I saw a little Jerry cockroach run by me on the street the other day.

[JohnLudi]

(This is on my MySpace blog and my website, but I figured some of you would get a giggle out of it. Delete it if you feel it is unsuitable...)


Jerry Falwell, my personal eulogy by John Ludi


Mere words cannot convey my depth of feeling at the passing of the Reverend Jerry Falwell...what can be said regarding such a man? Language fails at such a task.

But try I must...

To say that he was a fat, corpulent, bloated pus-balloon filled to bursting with the rancid bile of stupidity, myopia and hate would only minimize and trivialize his portly presence on the world stage and make him smaller than he actually was...for he was not a small man.

To say that he was a pompous, ignorant, jingo-spewing blitherer who pontificated endlessly about areas of thought that he was far too thoughtless to even begin to understand is to make him out to be far more profound a thinker than he actually was...for he was not a wise man.

To say that he was a hateful, spiteful, prejudiced, homophobic and misogynistic pig who spread a message of exclusion in direct opposition to the actual teachings of the spiritual leader he claimed to represent would make him out to be far more kind then he actually was...for he was not a kind man.

To say that he was a hypocritical soulless douchebag whose craven smirking made a blatant mockery of all things truly divine and spiritual for the sake of mere filthy lucre would make out to be far more pious than he actually was...for he was not a pious man.

No, indeed, let us speak of him as he actually was: a walking bucket of puke who spread evil and darkness in accordance of the wishes of his TRUE master. Falwell was a symptom of a society in decline and a clear harbinger of civilizational collapse. A signpost pointing the way to a potential future intolerance that could make his own horrific contributions to a world at the edge of ruin pale by comparision.

We have always had people like Jerry Falwell, but the society we have created gave him far more of a public platform to spew forth his anti-intellectual toxins than he ever should have been given. Alleged "news" organizations would actually utilize him as a learned spokesman and pundit, where he should have been a backwoods preacher who never made it out of the trailer park.

He was what he was, the bastard, but his impact on the world stage is our own fault. We should be ashamed for our part in it.

To conclude...Falwell was one of those people who makes me want to believe in the traditional Christian comic book hell. I picture him there now, being abused in a most graphic way by an army of demonic Teletubbies, a drooling and multi-horned Tinky Winky at the fore...doing unspeakable things to him with a purse filled with various and sundry powertools.

May he pay a steep price for he actions, his lack of character, and the damage to our culture that he willfully and (in my opinion) knowingly caused.

Burn Jerry, burn…your death should have been far more ignoble...it should have better reflected your blighted soul.

[Lore]

Let me sum it up as eloquently as I can, “my heart is pumping piss for the man!”

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('manu', 'L')ooks like he will miss the rapture.

[Heineken]

One commentator noted that Falwell's real legacy will be Liberty University.

A very scary place, located not too far from me, with an enrollment supposedly of 10,000.
Each year they churn out thousands of fully indoctrinated Falwell robots---you know, those pinpoint-eyed, carefully coifed types who constantly raise their arms to the "heavens"---dedicated to completing the task of transforming first the US and then the world into a Christian theocracy.

They have special classes, which are mandatory, designed to teach students how to get positions in government, deal with the media, win debates with "liberals," raise funds, etc. The ultimate goal is to saturate the power structure with Liberty University grads.

[I_Like_Plants]

What I can't believe is the US media falling all over themselves to talk about what a great guy he was. And keep in mind to me these days media = PBS and NPR. And a local relatively liberal AM station, KGO.

[Heineken]

I noticed that too, Plants.

Goes to show how deeply this cancer has eaten into the national substance.

[Denny]

Well, we must remember that for much of Amrica, they have seen so many changes to what they perceive to be the worse for the ocuntry. I once spent a week in the Smoky Mountins area and in the outlying areas, the churches are the focal point of the peoples' lives. I was curious about thsi church influence and found in a town of about 9,000 people, there were over 38 churches listed in its yellow pages! Think of that.

Falwell got these people on side and organzied them to use their clout to give them a voice. He did follow the bible, perhaps a bit twisted and too literally at times. But, he was no snake handler or anything weird like that.

You may disagree with much of Falwell's positions, but its a free country and that is the nature of democracy. Its messy.

I did not agree with some of what Falwell had to say, that is for sure, but let not denigrate him for using his voice to expound on what he perceived to be his God given duties as a preacher. He fought fearlessly, even when it made him look stupid.

[Heineken]

The Falwell mentality doesn't want either a free country or a democracy. It wants a Taliban-style theocracy, ruled by a Falwellian king.

Falwell wasn't even a preacher. He was a politician using religion and hatred as his vehicles to power.

Wake up, Denny, and smell the shit. You obviously don't have any idea of what you're talking about. I do. Falwell country is just down the road from me.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'W')ell, we must remember that for much of Amrica, they have seen so many changes to what they perceive to be the worse for the ocuntry. I once spent a week in the Smoky Mountins area and in the outlying areas, the churches are the focal point of the peoples' lives. I was curious about thsi church influence and found in a town of about 9,000 people, there were over 38 churches listed in its yellow pages! Think of that.

Falwell got these people on side and organzied them to use their clout to give them a voice. He did follow the bible, perhaps a bit twisted and too literally at times. But, he was no snake handler or anything weird like that.

You may disagree with much of Falwell's positions, but its a free country and that is the nature of democracy. Its messy.

I did not agree with some of what Falwell had to say, that is for sure, but let not denigrate him for using his voice to expound on what he perceived to be his God given duties as a preacher. He fought fearlessly, even when it made him look stupid.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')he Falwell mentality doesn't want either a free country or a democracy. It wants a Taliban-style theocracy, ruled by a Falwellian king.

Falwell wasn't even a preacher. He was a politician using religion and hatred as his vehicles to power.

Wake up, Denny, and smell the shit. You obviously don't have any idea of what you're talking about. I do. Falwell country is just down the road from me.

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'W')ell, we must remember that for much of Amrica, they have seen so many changes to what they perceive to be the worse for the ocuntry. I once spent a week in the Smoky Mountins area and in the outlying areas, the churches are the focal point of the peoples' lives. I was curious about thsi church influence and found in a town of about 9,000 people, there were over 38 churches listed in its yellow pages! Think of that.

Falwell got these people on side and organzied them to use their clout to give them a voice. He did follow the bible, perhaps a bit twisted and too literally at times. But, he was no snake handler or anything weird like that.

You may disagree with much of Falwell's positions, but its a free country and that is the nature of democracy. Its messy.

I did not agree with some of what Falwell had to say, that is for sure, but let not denigrate him for using his voice to expound on what he perceived to be his God given duties as a preacher. He fought fearlessly, even when it made him look stupid.