Jerry Fallwell, Dead

WASaBubbleButt · May 15, 2007

Just saw it on the news.

DerickM · May 15, 2007

Looks like Satan has a new right hand man in hell then.

WASaBubbleButt · May 15, 2007

Looks like Satan has a new right hand man in hell then.

LOL!! Well, since you brought it up.... :youcandothis:

I don't want to see anyone suffer, not sure if he did or not. I just caught the tail end of the news. Haven't looked it up yet. But the earth certainly won't be at a loss without him.

musicalmomma · May 15, 2007

LOL!! Well, since you brought it up.... :youcandothis:
I don't want to see anyone suffer, not sure if he did or not. I just caught the tail end of the news. Haven't looked it up yet. But the earth certainly won't be at a loss without him.

Not everyone feels that way...sheesh it's a shame that we have to talk ill of a dead man. I for one admired and respected him and feel his loss.

WASaBubbleButt · May 15, 2007

And that's fine, I respect your opinion. I think he did lots of very bad things for Christianity including making a complete joke of the belief.

Sunta · May 15, 2007

it's a shame that we have to talk ill of a dead man.

If he didn't leave such a legacy of hate, then no one would speak ill of him.

That's the legacy he left, and obviously he created a tremendous amount of ill will and bad feelings. When people are truly good and loving, when they die no one speaks badly of them but rather Celebrate their life and say kind things in turn.

He's reaping precisely what he sowed.

WASaBubbleButt · May 15, 2007

Positive Atheism's Big List of Jerry Falwell Quotations

green · May 15, 2007

Just saw it on the news.

Yippee!!! That was one nasty brat!

anonemouse · May 15, 2007

I agree with Sunta. No one speaks ill about someone with nothing to speak ill about. Jerry Falwell was not a saint, and I hate it when people pretend that death somehow washes a person clean of all the bad things that they've done.

WASaBubbleButt · May 15, 2007

In Christianity it kinda does wash away all those evils people did. Remember, even Hitler could be in the Christian heaven.

Elisabethsew · May 15, 2007

I was not a follower of Falwell but I do believe in God and Christian values. The man is dead and I'm sure many will mourn him. It's not my place to judge him.

WASaBubbleButt · May 15, 2007

I think it is fair to judge the results of his work that others are left to deal with. He's gone and doesn't have to deal with it, others do.

It's easy to excuse bad behavior by saying the person is dead, it is quite a different matter to clean up political messes he made.

Sunta · May 15, 2007

It's not my place to judge him.

That's really super that you actually follow Christian values.

However, he did not. He was a person who judged people very harshly and created alot of hatred for people that didn't deserve his judgment.

His venom against people suffering from AIDS, his put-downs of women, and his vile attitude toward Gays were certainly more typical of an anti-Christ than a Christian.

He contributed to a social environment of discrimination, hate, and anger against people who are just trying to live their lives and live peacefully in the world.

Surely his cruel words against people living with AIDS caused a huge amount of pain and hurt as did his campaigning against feminism and the ACLU. His wish to squash people's civil liberties and his blaming of Gay people and others for 9/11 was an outrage, and a hurt that won't be forgotten.

The world is better off without his nasty and terrible venom.

musicalmomma · May 15, 2007

I'm sure glad he equipped his son's to take over for him and continue his legacy :youcandothis:

I know, again, I am in the minority. I'm really very comfortable with that. Those who stand for everything, stand for nothing. He stood, to the best of his understanding, to the principles of the bible. I'm sure he made mistakes, he was human after all...but he was a man that stood for something, fought for it, and I am SO glad his work will continue in his sons.

WASaBubbleButt · May 15, 2007

I'm sure glad he equipped his son's to take over for him and continue his legacy :youcandothis:
I know, again, I am in the minority. I'm really very comfortable with that. Those who stand for everything, stand for nothing. He stood, to the best of his understanding, to the principles of the bible. I'm sure he made mistakes, he was human after all...but he was a man that stood for something, fought for it, and I am SO glad his work will continue in his sons.

It's not just the fact that he was human and made mistakes. He taught hate and filth. I was raised xtian and that's not how I was raised that xtianity is supposed to be at all. Some people appreciate and value that kind of xtianity, I don't. That is the very behavior that makes xtianity look so darn bad.

His son's (and daughter, btw) don't have the following he did. He was losing his following after 9/11 anyway. Even the whacko xtians couldn't see how that was right let alone logical. (And by whacko I'm referring to the extreme fundie types, not the normals.)

Sadly for his family, the world is a better place without him.