Ding Dong....

[Ducky]

...Falwell's dead. (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/jerry.falwell/index.html)

Discuss.

[Björn Toulouse]

And Yahweh ben Yahweh yesterday.

[Babylon Sister]

I have to say that, while I'm not exactly joyous about his death, when I think of the damage that man inflicted on the minds of his followers and on this country thru them, I am not saddened to know it's over either.

[MelBrooksfan]

Can't wait to see his replacement. I'm sure he'll be just as crazy.

[joobz]

Not much to discuss. He's no more, but his influence will remain. Someone else will fill the influence vacuum, and I do not know if that will be a positive change.

I give my respects to his family and those who mourn for him. Death is never easy for the living.

[Krash]

It's a great loss.

In the sense that it's that really great kind of loss that you wish would happen more frequently.

[triadboy]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_on_re_us/jerry_falwell


...his National Liberty Journal warned parents that Tinky Winky, a purple, purse-toting character on television's "Teletubbies" show, was a gay role model and morally damaging to children.


It's comedy that writes itself!

[fuelair]

Two other threads for those interested.

[Ducky]

yeah but I was first!

you shoudl add links to them tho

[kittynh]

I just wonder if he was right about God. By that I mean he is off to an afterlife.

And right now he's saying to God, "you mean Jesus wouldn't have hated gays?"

by that I mean he's in real serious trouble.

People want to know why I hold out for an afterlife. It's for moments like this.

[Hokulele]

People want to know why I hold out for an afterlife. It's for moments like this.


Well, I can sympathize with the sentiment, but the reason I do not hold out for an afterlife is that it seems truly unfair to condemn someone to an eternity of torment just for being a bigoted, asinine, racist, sexist, homophobic, doody-for-brains.

[Kochanski]

I just wonder if he was right about God. By that I mean he is off to an afterlife.

And right now he's saying to God, "you mean Jesus wouldn't have hated gays?"

by that I mean he's in real serious trouble.

People want to know why I hold out for an afterlife. It's for moments like this.

Kitty I am with you on this one, although I am an atheist, I would definitely appreciate the idea of someone like Falwell walking up to the gates and getting laughed at and sent the other way :degrin:

[Achán hiNidráne]

I'm going Lynchburg. I'm going to wait outside the cemetery until the funeral let's out so I might pay Falwell the proper respect he's due at his grave.

Oh, did I forget to mention that I will have consumed four or five Big Gulp cups of Coke before hand?

[Gregory]

He was a nasty, fanatical bigot and now he's dead. I never got emotionally involved with him in the way I have with, say, Phelps (there's going to be some major league partying when that one bites it), but I'm certainly not sorry.

[grayman]

I'm going Lynchburg. I'm going to wait outside the cemetery until the funeral let's out so I might pay Falwell the proper respect he's due at his grave.

Oh, did I forget to mention that I will have consumed four or five Big Gulp cups of Coke before hand?

If you'd like, I'll chip in for a few greasy bean burritos if you really would like to leave an "offering".

:)

[Ducky]

If you'd like, I'll chip in for a few greasy bean burritos if you really would like to leave an "offering".

:)

Yes I left both gifts at my sonofabitch of a father's grave. Very satisfying. I highly reccommend it.

[Tricky]

Yes I left both gifts at my sonofabitch of a father's grave. Very satisfying. I highly reccommend it.
How sweet. You helped the flowers grow.

(But seriously, I'm sorry you had to have such an SOB dad, FS)

[Ducky]

How sweet. You helped the flowers grow.

(But seriously, I'm sorry you had to have such an SOB dad, FS)

He was a lawyer. It was to be expected.

[dglas]

Yes I left both gifts at my sonofabitch of a father's grave. Very satisfying. I highly reccommend it.

I sometimes considered a similar kind of symbolic gesture, but I must admit to wondering if such would be healthy for me. So far I have figured it is better for me to let the past settle into the comfortable realm of irrelevancy and fading memory rather than carry a burden of seething hatred around. I dismissed their poison from my life long ago.

I am the last of this vicious line. When my parents die, they will disapper into the nameless, featureless mass of miscellaneous historical anonymity, unremembered.

[MelBrooksfan]

He was a nasty, fanatical bigot and now he's dead. I never got emotionally involved with him in the way I have with, say, Phelps (there's going to be some major league partying when that one bites it), but I'm certainly not sorry.


Speaking of Phelps, evidently the Westboro loons are set to protest Falwell's funeral.

[Dr Adequate]

Speaking of Phelps, evidently the Westboro loons are set to protest Falwell's funeral.Link. (http://www.godhatesamerica.com/)

[Ducky]

Link. (http://www.godhatesamerica.com/)

Oh the irony.

[MelBrooksfan]

Oh the irony.


Ain't it though? I always thought that they kind of batted for the same team. I get the impression that Phelps would've protested Jesus' funeral if he'd had the chance.

[YouBelieveWHAT?]

Sort of reminds me of the old saying:

With friends like these, who need enemies?

YBW

[Zep]

Ain't it though? I always thought that they kind of batted for the same team. I get the impression that Phelps would've protested Jesus' funeral if he'd had the chance.As I said elsewhere, Fred certainly would do exactly this. He is certifiably insane, just that the family he is with are equally afflicted, so they don't notice. Compared to Fred, TimeCube guy is up towards the "normal" end of the scale.

But this isn't about Fred, it's about Jerry Falwell. And St Peter saying to him "No, you can't buy me, no matter who you knew or how much you were worth. God says you can go straight to Hell."

[Achán hiNidráne]

Oh... I SO want to see a fight break out between these two groups of slimeballs (Falwell Mourners Vs. Westboros). Maybe they can do us all a favor and annihilate each other in the ensuing conflict

[Upchurch]

Oh... I SO want to see a fight break out between these two groups of slimeballs (Falwell Mourners Vs. Westboros). Maybe they can do us all a favor and annihilate each other in the ensuing conflict
Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out?

[kittynh]

works for me upchurch!

Falwell is one of those people that took the good kind religion that I grew up with, and did something to it that has made it never the same.

Last night on Anderson Cooper one of the guests was Christopher Hitchens.

He was WONDERFUL! Usually I cringe when Hitchens speaks. My husband had never heard Hitchens before and he said, "you know, I get the feeling there is a drink just out of camera range, but everything that man is saying is TRUE!"

Cooper just let him talk on an on, I think he was in shock.

But the truth is that Falwell flew around in a private plane, and he caused the peace process in the Middle East to be stalled, and he had everyone afraid to even question him as he had the REV in front of his name.

In the US if you are a religious leader, you are coated in teflon. You can say anything, and hide behind God.

I don't hope anyone burns in hell. Heck, hell isn't even in the Bible what fundies have made it over the years.

But if he did believe, I want God to say, "you were WRONG!" I just imagine Falwell and others argueing "no, YOU were wrong!" because that's what they did in life. There is some bumper sticker you can buy that says, "Like Jesus would vote Republican and own a gun...."

[sackett]

By now, Satan has hustled up to the Pearly Gates and is waving Falwell's flabby little piece of a soul in Peter's face.

"Hey, man, whaddya think yer doin'? I can't light nothin' with this piece a crabb! Talk about wet and soggy!"

"Now don't get all exasperated, Mr. S," says Peter, fumbling his pen and judgement book. "Quality control is not our department. Really, it's as much your fault as ours, please be a little reasonable --"

"Thass right, blame the guy with the horns!" Satan grouches. "Jeeze!"

"Don't try to mix me up in it," says Jesus, looking over the wall. "So one day I blew my nose and that came out. You never had a bad pollen day in your life, right?"

"At least I use a kleenex, Jewboy!" cries Satan. "Some of us got manners, y' know'd I mean?"

So they fall to wrangling, while God pops a couple of Advil and sincerely regrets that whole Big Bang business.

[grayman]

But if he did believe, I want God to say, "you were WRONG!" I just imagine Falwell and others argueing "no, YOU were wrong!" because that's what they did in life. There is some bumper sticker you can buy that says, "Like Jesus would vote Republican and own a gun...."

Good time to pull this out again:

pe-er9FqhYA

[bluess]

That was FUNNY!

[Krash]

Last night on Anderson Cooper one of the guests was Christopher Hitchens.


Here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkAPaEMwyKU&mode=related&search=

[roger]

That's ****** great!

[Darth Rotor]

So they fall to wrangling, while God pops a couple of Advil and sincerely regrets that whole Big Bang business.
You, sir, are nominated. :D

You also are in peril of that last being included in my sig. Do you mind?

Are any of you suspiscious about Phelps, as in

Falwell trained him, and taught him, and sent him out into the world so that by comparison, Jerry would look good? Hmmm, may need to get a tinfoil hat.

DR

[Achán hiNidráne]

Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out?

No... just kill 'em all.;)

[sackett]

You, sir, are nominated. :D

You also are in peril of that last being included in my sig. Do you mind?

Are any of you suspiscious about Phelps, as in

Falwell trained him, and taught him, and sent him out into the world so that by comparison, Jerry would look good? Hmmm, may need to get a tinfoil hat.

DR

Thanks for the nomination, DR. Go ahead and use anything I post for sig material; I'm just here strewin' my mess.

I think Falwell had Phelps sewn together from stolen body parts. Rather ripe ones.

[MelBrooksfan]

Thanks for the nomination, DR. Go ahead and use anything I post for sig material; I'm just here strewin' my mess.

I think Falwell had Phelps sewn together from stolen body parts. Rather ripe ones.

Any chance his assistant switched the intended brain for an abnormal one?

[LostAngeles]

By now, Satan has hustled up to the Pearly Gates and is waving Falwell's flabby little piece of a soul in Peter's face.

"Hey, man, whaddya think yer doin'? I can't light nothin' with this piece a crabb! Talk about wet and soggy!"

"Now don't get all exasperated, Mr. S," says Peter, fumbling his pen and judgement book. "Quality control is not our department. Really, it's as much your fault as ours, please be a little reasonable --"

"Thass right, blame the guy with the horns!" Satan grouches. "Jeeze!"

"Don't try to mix me up in it," says Jesus, looking over the wall. "So one day I blew my nose and that came out. You never had a bad pollen day in your life, right?"

"At least I use a kleenex, Jewboy!" cries Satan. "Some of us got manners, y' know'd I mean?"

So they fall to wrangling, while God pops a couple of Advil and sincerely regrets that whole Big Bang business.

Would Our Lord, God prefer some Tylenol W/Codeine?

[joobz]

Would Our Lord, God prefer some Tylenol W/Codeine?
I think he sticks with homeopathic remedies.

[ksbluesfan]

All of these types of religious leaders have somebody waiting in the wings to take their place. I'm not sure who it will be to take Falwell's place, but I know Fred Phelps' daughter, Shirley, is already calling the shots at WBC. Unlike Fred, she hasn't been disbarred yet.