Thread: Jerry Laymon Falwell, Sr. - August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religio...l_N.htm?csp=34

Praise the Lord.

And good riddance.

Yay, one less opponent in the fight for intelligence.

dot dot dot

Thank God.

I, personally, thought he had a good heart, but said the wrong thing whenever he opened his mouth, without meaning to. I myself have the same proble. I will miss that old guy...*sniff*


P.S. - This, for those that don't realize it, is a gracious way to say, "Stop mocking a dead guy. You can make fun of him all you want when he is alive, but after he just died....stop."

Good riddance.

Sorry Jakko, but this dude was a douche.

Originally Posted by Jakko

P.S. - This, for those that don't realize it, is a gracious way to say, "Stop mocking a dead guy. You can make fun of him all you want when he is alive, but after he just died....stop."

When jack thompson dies i don't think this will be the case =P

As said above... one less opponent in the fight for intelligence.

Originally Posted by Jakko

I, personally, thought he had a good heart, but said the wrong thing whenever he opened his mouth, without meaning to. I myself have the same proble.

Originally Posted by Jerry Falwell

And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen."

-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)

Originally Posted by Jerry Falwell

The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.

-- Jerry Falwell, Listen, America!

Originally Posted by Jerry Falwell

do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status.

-- Rev Jerry Falwell, USA Today Chat, quoted from The Religious Freedom Coalition, "The Two faces of Jerry Falwell"

Originally Posted by Jerry Falwell

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth ... We need to pull out all the stops to recruit and train 25 million Americans to become informed pro-moral activists whose voices can be heard in the halls of Congress.
I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!

-- Jerry Falwell, "Moral Majority Report" for September, 1984

If this is indication of having a good heart, then I don't want to know what the people with evil hearts say.

Sorry Jakko, but the guy was a bigot and a douche. Pure and simple.

Falwell's greatest claim to fame might be that he openly brought religion into politics in a way which was not that different from how special interest groups regularly operate in promoting their views, lobbying for government policy which is favorable to them and detrimental to others, and supporting political candidates who will in turn support them if elected to government. Jerry Falwell's open support for Ronald Reagan as President didn't sit very well though with those who favor an absolute separation of church and state.

Shrug, if nobody had been interested in buying what Falwell was selling at the time, he would have been dismissed as irrelevant and all but forgotten by this point. That wasn't the case though, and you can see undertones of Ronald Reagan's attempt to appeal to the Moral Majority in Bush Jr's Presidential election campaigns.