Falwell Dead at 73
 

You're going to have to imagine my tears for this man, I'm afraid.

Gee, that's too bad.

Hell, even Larry Flynt is dancing today.

Wouldn't the world be a better place if he had fought FOR people instead of against them?

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Was that out loud? Good.

Maybe there is a god.

HOW DARE YOU, ALL OF YOU? A man is DEAD! Do you have no pity, do you not see how you offend? Do you think you're fucking FUNNY? I don't think it's funny, not a goddam bit, so quit offering your goddam not funny opinions. Sheesh...

(Oh, sorry, I thought it read "father dead at 73. My bad.)

Shame for his family and loved ones. Also for the rational thinkers of the world.
He was always good for showing the reality of the other side in its purest form, he had no shame.
He stated the reality of the faithful's stance with lots of publicity and who was on his side in politics, showed us who the enemy was.
I loved having him out there.
He brought more to rational thought than to superstition, I promise.

I agree, he was the best bad example we could hope for to expose the radical wackos for what they are.

v. to the s. to the motha-fuckin' p. If there was one thread you should return to reply to it is this one. How's it goin'!

Thank yeeew, Jeeeesus!

I feel sorry for his family and those who loved him. I don't agree with his philosophy on life, but as Shawnee pointed out, he's dead so let him rest in peace.

Someone will come along and take his place for those of you so ready to dance on his grave.

It's terrible to be so pleased at the death of someone...

...but honestly, it's even more terrible that people like him are alive at all.

If there weren't people like him around there'd be nothing to be moderate about.

It's a matter of balance.

He wasn't part of balance, but way far off the end of the scale.

There's plenty of people way far at the other end of the scale too. We have one of them right here as a member of the cellar.

No, no, no, we have nothing but reasonable, rational, loving members.

If you say so.

See, that proves it.

The difference between a crazy weird right-winger and a crazy weird left-winger is that the left-winger doesnt advocate locking up all the fags, the niggers, the dykes, the heathens. They dont want to destroy all those who dont fit their closedminded backwards draconian morality; they want to help people, and convince them to leave that draconian ridiculousness.

A right-winger would ban gay sex. A left-winger wouldn't make it mandatory.
A right-winger would ban drugs. A left-winger wouldn't make it mandatory.

That is the difference; that is why right-wingers, all of them, are supporters of totalitarianism, authoritarianism, fascism - and why they are so repulsive to me.

Was that your Dad? If so I'm???? speechless.

What?

That kind of rage is most time at someone close to home!

Puh-leese, just don't say his name three times in front of a mirror. ;)

Why? And anyway, who do you think I might have been referring to?

Ooh, haven't you seen Candyman??

I was just trying to be funny, kind of. Who were you referring to?

The leftwingers are into governmental aggrandization in all its forms, fascism, communism, democratic socialism, not-so-democratic socialism, and in general sundry excesses of statism, genocides being just one. The hard Left now indulges in the rankest sort of antisemitism, thinly veiled as something called "antizionism."

It's time for Ibbie to take a read of Clowns to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, from Bernard Goldberg's busy pen.

The reason I reject the Left is because my experience tells me it doesn't have the virtues Ibbie ascribes to it.

I definitely had rkz in mind, although there's a couple of others who might fit the bill too.

UG, you have yet to give a single scrap of evidence for any of that bullshit. The only way the Left is authoritarian at all is that they wanna take guns away, and the more sane of them don't even want to do that.

It's very simple. The right is all about what you can't do. The left is all about what you can.

Bingo! We have a winner!

I felt really bad yesterday for having an emotional response that included a stuffed down smurk. I am sure I am one of those evil ones that are going straight to hell.

There's nothing wrong with being pleased that an asshole is no longer around.

Okay the rapture is complete.

Roll call.
Griff "HERE!" oh oh

Yes, I was. His intolerance, bigotry,playing god. I was wondering what death was like for him. Very morbid I know. I gave an inward shudder that if there is a god I imagine it must be very much against these things.


lol :)

We shouldn't dance on his grave... oh, what the hell. :jig:

Ah, finally, I get to Godwin a thread: would you say the same of, oh, Hitler?

Griff wins the thread! :)

No, I don't think so. I think it's better to say, Jerry? Jerry Who? Otherwise the terrorists win.

No worries; you'll be in good company and I'm sure we'll all have one heck of a party (while Falwell watches from the sidelines, trying to figure out where to damn us all to next for having fun).

I grew up about 45 minutes away from Lynchburg and his zealot stronghold of a university. There is something wrong with any learning institution that would discipline adults for holding hands on campus. I always found Falwell to be a bit too totalitarian, and I was able to come to that conclusion at the ripe age of 10!

I admit that I even posted something to my blog titled "the Witch is Dead." I'm not quite sure how that guy schnookered so many people, but I'm glad he's gone. I won't be upset when Pat Robertson is gone either.

People don't like change. The more responsibilities they acquire,(kids, mortgage, debts) the more unpredictability is unnerving.

The changes in society after WW II up to the late 70s were pretty big and came at a steadily increasing rate.

Falwell promised to turn back or at least slow down the clock. Old time religion, family values and the political/social clout to make it happen. Put the queers back in the closet, keep them niggers in line, get them whores off the TV and out of the movies.

Even the people that didn't totally buy his notions, felt he was a better alternative than letting the world around them deteriorate(change) at the rate it was going.

How's that for a guess?

Is it cool now if i openly become a lesbian and practice witchcraft?

Not much will change. Nothing ever does. Except the abortion laws...*sigh*

Legacy of this man is not posted. For example, he called Muhammad a terrorist. He suggested that 11 September reflected God's judgment on a nation spiritually weakened by the American Civil Liberties Union, providers of abortion and supporters of gay rights. He openly promoted hate of gay lifestyle and supported Anita Bryant's campaign against gays. He spoke out again Martin Luther King and opposed the civil rights movement. He promoted segregation - claiming that was only because the south was racist. He said he changed when he discovered segregation was wrong in the Bible - as if 400 years of Bible scholars had missed that teaching.

He suggested that Tinky Winky, a character in the "Teletubbies" children's show, could be a hidden homosexual because Tinky Winky was purple, had a triangle on his head, and carried a handbag.

Falwell created (modified) Liberty University and its Law School. The latter's purpose to educate lawyers an exemplary education, from a biblical perspective. IOW to impose God's will on the law ... as if God cannot impose his own will. And of course the Moral Majority where Falwell said to vote only for those how 'stands by the Bible'. Falwell said that religion should not be separated from politics - a reversal of his 1960 opinion.

Underlying Falwell is a belief that morality - his morality - should be imposed upon a nation. He encouraged his followers to impose the will of God. To me - he advocated a Spanish Inquisition upon American civil rights. How can a man so religious at a personal level also be so evil at a national level as to impose his religious beliefs on all others?

I'd say the same about anyone at the time of their death.

Hitler is a historical figure and changed events in the whole world so to discuss him in a historical context to me is fine.

The same would apply to people like Fallwell after his family and loved ones have been given some grace by the greater public.

Ha ha ha...Mr. Hitchens sure doesn't pull any punches.

Guess who will be in attendance at the funeral?

Falwell was a "fag enabler"? :eyebrow:

Gosh, do you think the Patriot Guard will go too?

My head asplode.

Maybe they're mad, because he retracted that statement he made about 9-11?

Not too bad, same old same old.

Not a chance. He was never in the military.