My take on Falwell... Yeah, I know, you're sick of it, too.

[MLFerrell]

As the old saying goes, "Believing that war will bring peace is like fucking for virginity."

That being said, there is a qualitative difference between celebrating the death of a bigot and spewing bigotry yourself. I haven't heard anyone criticize Falwell and add "Yeah, and I hope that Christians get AIDS and die. Oh, and anyone who doesn't agree with my theological/political beliefs should get AIDS and die too." Falwell DID say things remarkably similar to such vitriol.

I shall dance a merry jig when each and every one of my enemies perishes, and Jerry Falwell was one of my enemies.

He is in large measure responsible for the utter madness that we have endured under Bush for the last six plus years, by whipping the faithful into a zealous frenzy, and promoting hate as an American value. You reap what you sow, yes?

The Republican Party co-opted his tactics, and his followers became their followers. His rhetoric was that of hate, pure unmitigated hate, and the rightist political machine learned its lessons from Falwell and others of his ilk. More than three thousand American soldiers, and literally countless Iraqis have died, and an innumerable body of others have suffered terribly as a DIRECT result of this man's words and actions.

I celebrate his death, rather than afford that ignoble bastard any measure of respect or veneration.

Not to go all Godwin on you, but would it have been wrong to celebrate Hitler's death?

Will it be wrong to rejoice at the death of monsters like Bush, or Cheney?

Just some things to think about is all...

[MLFerrell]

1. Kick...

GD sure is moving fast tonight!

[agincourt]

2. He was the start of our great slide downwards,

He got his traction in the late '70s when our Christian religion and political system began it's great dumb-down. He coarsened the Christian faith so that now all that it's about is some chicken-hawk farts getting rich stealing living wages from the poor and making joe and mary lunchbox jacked up about gay marriage. I don't cheer his death, I mourn that such a little, little man would be so significant in such little, little-minded times like we've had since the election of Ronald Regean.

[MLFerrell]

3. I feel a bit differently, as you may have noticed...

Besides, I prefer Crecy. :)

[MLFerrell]

4. Kick...

For visibility.