The fact that YOU have neither heard nor read any words from any of those praying for Mr. Falwell's soul does not mean that those words were not said or written. So ease back on charges of hypocrisy.

Falwell will spend eternity in the Ninth Ring of The Inferno with the demogogues, deceivers, users, mountebanks and con men.

There, you recall, is where the worst punishments are meted out.

Larry King last night said that he'd never heard Falwell utter a hateful word about anyone and that, in person, he was so darn likeable. Ah, CNN. Thank you for employing a man so completely out of touch with everything and giving him a prime time spot.

Quick tangent: Why has King, perhaps one of the worst listeners ever (great quality in an interviewer), been allowed to have a 50-year career?

Out.

What is it about internet "conservatives" that they believe it is morally correct to tolerate the right wings culture of intolerance.

Hate gays! Okay! Scapegoat the poor! That is aces with me! Play upon the fears of the ignorant? Whatever turns you on, man! Get rich off your congregation? It's the American way!

Use a climate of fear and loathing for people different from you to get loads of power and lots of money? Well, there you are...the MORAL CENTER OF CONSERVATIVE VALUES!

Tolerate this? Well, pardon me while I laugh at the irony of people who don't have a clue asking to be tolerated. What chutzpah. What complete and utter cluelessness.

My thanks to the right wing trolls that came on here decrying Liberals for showing hatred and intolerance toward Falwell. The man was vile and I'm pleased he's dead. I'm also pleased that you're all coming here and saying "You should be ashamed of yourselves, you're acting like conservatives!" Hypocracy simply runs in your veins, doesn't it? Or is it that you all know that Liberals are better than you and are horrified to see that even we have our limits and can occasionally sink to your level?

"You call yourself the Moral Majority/We call ourself the people in the real world/Trying to rub us out, but we're going to survive/God must be dead if you're alive ..."

Good riddance, Falwell. We're still here. You're not. 'Nuff said.

I want to personally sponsor a national 5 day all nude bender the day either Cheney or Bush shuffle off this mortal coil too. Me? I'll be smoking crack with Satan and dancing naked round the bible and baby fire.

How did he become a public figure? Because lots of Americans agreed with him, because they were - are - stupid and bigoted in the same way he was. It is like asking why Nixon was elected President twice or why Father Coughlin was so popular in his day. The American people are not great and good. They are like all the other peoples of the world. They willingly follow mountebanks and demagogues.

Meremortal has articulated my position on the posts I have seen here cheering Rev. Falwell's death.

Thank you.

This just in ---Jerry Falwell has just arrived in Hell.His rejection at the pearly gates said to be due to his inability to understand the simple concept"DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU"

I'll tell you what else he did before he got famous with his moral majority gig. He was well known in Va. for: (1) pressuring sick elderly people to will there estate to his church. I know people who's elderly relatives were tricked into giving everything to him. Very slimy.

(2) His compound in Va was always guarded by thugs with machine guns. Not a very comfortable situation.

In his list of religious demagogues, Mr. Wolfe left out Oral Roberts (whose first name always cracked me up). Am I the only person who remembers when God was going to call him home if people didn't cough up more donations?

The newspaper in Las Cruces NM (second largest city in New Mexico) had a color photo of weeping man being embraced by local preacher mourning the death of Jerry Falwell.

Living in this environment, it is refreshing to find, someplace, the truth about what the man was about.

When I heard of his death, I could not help but think about what kind of reception he encountered upon crossing over.

A great example of how Fallwell lies.

Liberty counts all the points all their entrants have earned, the JV teams, etc. And they have more entrants than most colleges, so they have more total points.

They've NEVER beat Harvard. But since they have a lot of 12th place entrants, their total points add up to a lot. But they're a medium level team and in no way compet with the top notch ivies. And these points they add up are not used in the debate system, it's their own classification they made up to claim they're #1.

I graduated from Lynchburg College in 1971. My campus was across the street (Thomas Road) from what was Falwell's newly-built (1964) Thomas Road Baptist Church and its Lynchburg Christian Academy, founded in 1967, which I believe was an elementary school/high school. I always felt uneasy when I saw that school's uniform-clad students as they boarded city buses to go home each afternoon. I didn't know then that I should be processing what I saw for future reference, because Falwell was a nobody in the vast scope of things and had little or no impact on anyone outside of his then very small flock. But there was something about the aura surrounding those lily-white students that made me uncomfortable. Even though I was a blue-eyed blonde, I distinctly remember feeling that they were a latter-day incarnation of the Hitler Youth. I studied their faces when I occasionally rode the same city bus with them, and my perhaps-melodramatic sense at the time (I was only 19, 20, 21, a mere child) was that they were almost dangerous. (Now, of course, I know they really weren't; they were just children.)

Back in those days, Falwell had not yet reached the point where he had any sort of national impact on anything. He was, as I said, a nobody: My youthful impression of Falwell was that he was a joke and not to be taken seriously but we also sensed that he was a racist. We called him Elmer Fudd. A lot of my friends and I - searching for amusement - actually attended a service at Thomas Road, which merely confirmed our impression of Falwell. We came away shaking our heads and muttering, "You've got to be kidding me." Little did we know how much that church would grow over the years, or that it would spawn a college, or, most importantly, little did we know that years later Falwell would rise to some prominence and have such a negative impact on this country.

By the way, much to my embarrassment, evangelist Pat Robertson was born and grew up in the small town in which I have lived for over 40 years. His late parents' house is just around the corner from mine. The town has thus far shown the good judgment to not erect an historic marker paying homage to Robertson and he is rarely acknowledged as ever having been here.