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Jerry Falwell Goes To the Big Guy in the Sky!

Mephisto

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Jerry Falwell just found out what happens to you after you die today - I wonder if he was disappointed.

Falwell dies at age 73

POSTED: 1:39 p.m. EDT, May 15, 2007

LYNCHBURG, Virginia (AP) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell has died, a Liberty University executive said Tuesday. He was 73.

Earlier, the executive said Falwell was hospitalized in "gravely serious" condition after being found unconscious in his office.

Ron Godwin, the executive vice president of Falwell's Liberty University, said Falwell was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but "he has a history of heart challenges."

"I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast," Godwin said. "He went to his office, I went to mine and they found him unresponsive."

Falwell, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and serves as its president.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/jerry.falwell.ap/index.html
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We'll all miss him as there will be no one else to tell us which Teletubbie is the gay one. ;)
 
Mephisto said:
Jerry Falwell just found out what happens to you after you die today - I wonder if he was disappointed.



We'll all miss him as there will be no one else to tell us which Teletubbie is the gay one. ;)
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And how else are we supposed to know which national tragedies are god punishing us for the Gay Problem?
 
Mephisto said:
We'll all miss him as there will be no one else to tell us which Teletubbie is the gay one. ;)
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You will note that bluess began a thread about this a 1218. You posted this at 1254.

You spend a night in the box.

For ID: I hear he spoke very highly of you as well.

For PT: I suspect some of his disciples will take care of the bulletins to all and sundry regarding Teletubbies, Gays, abortion, End Days, and whatever else is on the menu.

DR
 
Actually, I feel a little bit sad about this. As far as judgemental, self righteous and intolerant religionists go, he was the one I minded the least. At least he didn't go around pretending to heal people and the venom he spewed was at least tempered by....well, no actually it wasn't tempered by much of anything. But he didn't bother me as much as some. My sister who is fairly well known in the American Baptist community (very different from the Southern Baptists) actually knew him and a few other of the big names in mainstream religion. As it happens, my sister is about as lefty as you can get - animal rights, protect the planet, attack injustice, fight for the rights of minorities and the oppressed and so on - but I don't think they ever discussed anything serious.

I actually think my sisters version of religion (or faith as she would prefer to think of it) is the best possible interpretation. That the purpose of man's existence is to follow the example of Jesus - the show compassion and help others and to live simply and sacrifice material gratification for the satisfaction that comes from doing good in the world and loving your fellow man. And not for some reward in heaven, but only because it is the right thing to do. I don't think she actually believes in heaven.
 
Mephisto said:
Jerry Falwell just found out what happens to you after you die today - I wonder if he was disappointed.



We'll all miss him as there will be no one else to tell us which Teletubbie is the gay one. ;)
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Phred Phelps is still here....he thinks they all are the gay one!

-z
 
Darth Rotor said:
For ID: I hear he spoke very highly of you as well.
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One of most important differences between me and the late Mr. ******** is that when I find him morally objectionable, I say that I think he's scum. He, on the other hand, was such a coward that he claimed that a magical invisible man hated gays, fornicatitors, and other people, and is going to torture them for all eternity, and smites them with diseases and extreme weather and let god take responsability for his words.
 
pondering turtle...meph...

I think I hate you.
 
ImaginalDisc said:
One of most important differences between me and the late Mr. ******** is that when I find him morally objectionable, I say that I think he's scum. He, on the other hand, was such a coward that he claimed that a magical invisible man hated gays, fornicatitors, and other people, and is going to torture them for all eternity, and smites them with diseases and extreme weather and let god take responsability for his words.
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That you disagree with the Reverend is no big deal. I did not find much in his way to admire.

That your momma didn't teach you correctly about speaking ill of the dead is another matter.

No class, ID.

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That goes for the rest of you grave dancing crasshats as well: let the body cool, eh? How about a modest amount of propriety?

DR
 
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Darth Rotor said:
That you disagree with the Reverend is no big deal. That your momma didn't teach you correctly about speaking ill of the dead is another matter.

No class, ID.

DR
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He was an embarassment to humanity and we're all much better off now that he's dead. There's nothing remotely decent to say about him.
 
We are here not to mourn the *******, but to bury him, put a stake through his heart, and make sure the sucker's gone.
 
rikzilla said:
pondering turtle...meph...

I think I hate you.
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Hmm, now that Falwell is dead, the hate he held needs to go somewhere.

I am now proposing a Conservation of Hate theory. I predict mass riots when all the hate tied up in Fred Phelps gets released.
 
Darth Rotor said:
That you disagree with the Reverend is no big deal. I did not find much in his way to admire.

That your momma didn't teach you correctly about speaking ill of the dead is another matter.

No class, ID.

ETA

That goes for the rest of you grave dancing crasshats as well: let the body cool, eh? How about a modest amount of propriety?

DR
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Don't be a hypocrite, Darth. If you hated what he stood for while he is alive, then you shouldn't pretend to be sad when he dies. Actually, though, I'm always a little sad when a good example of a bad Christian dies. Fallwell was one of the best recruiters the nonbelievers had.

I forgot who said it:
"I wept when he died for I had always longed to see him hung."
 
Darth Rotor said:
That says more about you than him.

DR
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What, that I don't subscribe to the staid and archaic notion that there is some prohibition against telling the truth about the recently deceased? Speaking ill of the dead in his house or at his funeral would be classless. Speaking ill of him in a pub, my home, or in a public forum is part of civic discourse.

Grow up.
 
Darth Rotor said:
That you disagree with the Reverend is no big deal. I did not find much in his way to admire.

That your momma didn't teach you correctly about speaking ill of the dead is another matter.

No class, ID.

ETA

That goes for the rest of you grave dancing crasshats as well: let the body cool, eh? How about a modest amount of propriety?

DR
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Why? If expressing these views would have been acceptable yesterday and will be again in two weeks, why does it change being today?
 
Tricky said:
Don't be a hypocrite, Darth. If you hated what he stood for while he is alive, then you shouldn't pretend to be sad when he dies. Actually, though, I'm always a little sad when a good example of a bad Christian dies. Fallwell was one of the best recruiters the nonbelievers had.
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Why are you trying to put words into my mouth, Tricky?

DR
 
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