Falwell Slip Slides Away…
Jerry Falwell collapsed and died today in Virginia at the age of 73. I can think of no better way to remember this man that was so filled with hatred and disgust for those who did not believe as he did than through some direct quotations. Here you go…
“I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!”
“The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country”
Actually I think it was Thomas somebody from Virginia that invented that. Jefferson? Paine? probably both…
“Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them”
“AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals”
“Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America”
Say what?
“If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being”
“The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews”
Hmmm… I’m not born again and I am a member of the ACLU. I don’t feel like a failure… haven’t gassed or burned any Christians… Perhaps I’m not living up to my potential…
“The Bible is the inerrant … word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc. “
“The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America’s free enterprise system and our economic stability”
and of course this famous hate filled rant following 9-11
“…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 try to secularize America…I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen.”
What a nice old man Jerry was. So loving and tolerant… just like Jesus. Not.
Have a Nice Trip…
Go here to read what his arch-nemesis Barry Lynn had to say upon hearing of his passing.
