Letters to the Editor
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huh?
Either way, he's gone and now the fight begins for control of his media empire. -- frederico
Umm, what "media empire" would that be? He has a single TV show broadcasting the Sunday service from Thomas Road Baptist Church. Some empire.
Just more clueless cliches being thrown around by people who really have no idea what they're talking about. But Jesus knew what was coming, and he warned his followers:
"The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil." (John 7:7)
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anonymous
Did you not even read the original article? Type in Google or Wikipedia. I'm sure you will find more of this vile cretin's evil spew.
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Na Na Na Na Hey Hey...
Back in my youth, I wore a "Jerry Falwell Can Suck My Dick" button. I wonder if I still have it?
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Yo anonymous here's another one for you
"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve” Jerry Falwell
Yes, your lord and worship, Jerry Falwell; king of the blame America first crowd.
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To Tom:
I know you think I am a fool and, apparently, lingerie, but that was pretty nice what you wrote. I just wish you could write like that all the time and quit your creepy, trollish ways!
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Intolerance of the Intolerant
Intolerance of the intolerant is only hypocritical if you're a simpleton who can't wrap their head around the fact that these are relative, nuanced concepts. Of course, people like this particular anonymous don't do nuance. I love the fact that he's flat out MISSING blatant references, he literally has no clue what people are talking about. He wants his world divulged in black and white, no word can fit multiple similar but distinct meanings, and no act or sentiment can have different ethics based on context or subject.
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"God" is apparently more merciful that Mr. Falwell whose death was apparently swift and quiet or silent enough to arouse no inquiry
until the process was done ... How merciful to spare Mr. Falwell's friend, relatives and collegues those deathbed decisions of the only partially rescued.
Found dead at his desk, died in the saddle with spurs on ... Good on you!
I'm an atheist ... I am pleased that I will be spared future inflammatory bile and hate-speach from this man.
Rest in peace.
I am among those who will not miss you, even a tiny, teeny, istsy-bitsy bit, like I would somehow not miss an itch or migraine or a bad case of gas ....
Ironically, from your obituary, your father sounds like someone I wish I'd met.
Rest in peace. My world is already more peaceful in your absence.
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To Be Accepted
I guess a preacher today must ignore large portions of Scripture in order not to be vilified in the way this man is? His positions on many social issues, such as abortion, homosexuality, and feminism, are the traditional positions that the majority of Christianity has held since its inception - also, most other major world religions. You'd think, with the level of hatred being leveled at him in these posts, that Falwell invented these opinions!
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A telling final word
Listening to NPR on the way home, they had his personal physician on. He referred to the deceased as "Dr. Falwell" instead of "Rev. Falwell". How telling, that he would be prefaced by his meaningless credentials of academia, that hated branding of intelligensia and the poisonous taint of the American thinking class, rather than by the title that distinguished him as a man of God.
It says all you really need to know about the man in the end. He wanted nothing more than to belong to the elite, to be counted among the erudite and the respected, and possessed nothing but contempt for the faithful and indeed for any God above as well.
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End of Days
Given the many hateful and hurtful things said and done by Jerry "9/11" Falwell, it would not surprise me if he were reborn as a mouthless snake in his next 500 reincarnations.
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The one flaw
The only reason why I can regret the man's death is that this means that he won't be speaking his mind--and being quoted to discredit him--anymore. You never had to make up anything he said, as he was very obliging about coming up with the most ludicrous connections possible.
Sadly, his passing will in no way negate the damage he's done.
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Jerry Falwell, "agent of intolerance," dead at 73
I was disappointed in the coverage of the death of one of America's most homophobic, racist and bigoted presage of fascism in America on the "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" on Public Television. Was it Thomas Paine? who posited, "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross". It also disappoints me that it is still considered bad manners to criticize religion. If America’s religious fundamentalists, like Falwell or Robertson, want to know how government works when religious leaders and the mythology occupy the white house, they should simply look to the east - the Middle East.
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Where was this quote?
"blow them [terrorists] all away in the name of the Lord."
http://www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=2518
If he meets *that* Lord, boy is he in trouble.