Falwell's Death

Some people were wondering how I feel about Falwell's death.

I was taught that if you don't have anything nice to say... don't say anything at all. So that's what I'm saying about this... nothing.

Instead... I'll leave you with some of his quotes and leave it up to you to figure out how I feel about it.

Jerry Falwell Quotes:

Regarding 9/11 and terrorism:

1. "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.'" --on the 9/11 attacks
   
   
2. “I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed”
   
   
3. "You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord."
   
   
4. “God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve”
   
   
5. “I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable”

Regarding homosexuality:

1. "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers ... AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
   
   
2. “Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.”
   
   
3. “[homosexuals are] brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.”
   
   
4. “I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws”
   
   
5. "He is purple — the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle — the gay pride symbol." –from a "Parents Alert" issued in Jerry Falwell's National Liberty Journal, warning that "Tinky Winky," a character on the popular PBS children's show, "Teletubbies," may be gay

Regarding marriage, paedophelia, prostitution, and adultery:

1. “Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them”

Regarding the Government and Politics:

1. "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!"
   
   
2. “Textbooks are Soviet propaganda”
   
   
3. “Pat ran for president once and he's a very political person, and that is the way politicians talk. They all use intimidation and political strong-arming to hopefully pick up a vote or two.
   
   
4. "Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself ... I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she's the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't." --at a "Values Voter Summit"
   
   
5. “The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country”
   
   
6. “The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews”
   
   
7. “The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability”
   
   
8. “We visit prisoners on death row, and some of them are saved, but we believe their sentences should be carried out because they have a debt to society”
   
   
9. “Joseph Farah raises a clarion call to action in his new book, 'Taking America Back.' He hits the nail on the head on every issue. What's more, he lays the blame for America's problems right where it belongs ? in the lap of liberalism. His insightful analysis of what he calls 'this evil ideology' is worth the price of the book. Don't miss it!”
   
   
10. “What we've worked on for 30 years, to mobilize people of faith and value in this country, what we've done through these years is coming to culmination right now.”
    
    
11. “Now we're looking at what we really started on 30 years ago, reconstruction of a court system gone awry.”

Regarding Religion:

1. “Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions”
   
   
2. “Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America”
   
   
3. “If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being”
   
   
4. “It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening"