http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/jerry.falwell.ap/index.html

The Rev. Jerry Falwell has died at age 73, The Associated Press reports.



spelling, I know.

[Edited on May 15, 2007 at 1:43 PM. Reason : ]

5/15/2007 1:38:38 PM

McCain did it

5/15/2007 1:39:15 PM

Soapbox?

5/15/2007 1:41:00 PM

everytime an evangelist dies an angel gets his wings

5/15/2007 1:43:34 PM

I wonder who will take his place, or will Pat Robertson just rise to fill his power vacuum?

5/15/2007 1:44:45 PM

"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."


In the 1980s Jerry Falwell was an outspoken supporter of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. When president PW Botha was elected President by the White South African minority, Reverend Falwell went to South Africa and made statements supporting the government there and urging American Christians to buy Krugerrands, a coin issued by the South African Government[17]. He drew the ire of many when he called Nobel Peace Prize winner and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu a phony. He later apologized for that remark and claimed that he had misspoken[18].

In 1994, Falwell released the straight-to-video documentary "The Clinton Chronicles: An Investigation into the Alleged Criminal Activities of Bill Clinton." The video connected Bill Clinton to a conspiracy theory involving Vincent Foster, James McDougall, Ron Brown, and an alleged cocaine-smuggling operation. Despite the theories being discredited by all major investigations, the video's sophisticated production techniques served as effective exposure, and sold over 150,000 copies.

In an interview for the 2005 documentary The Hunting of the President Falwell admitted, "To this day I do not know the accuracy of the claims made in The Clinton Chronicles," but failed to condemn the poor research.


Falwell is a controversial subject for his theological, political and social beliefs. After the September 11, 2001, attacks Falwell said on the 700 Club, "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.'"

Falwell remarked, "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals."

During the Civil Rights Movement Reverend Falwell was a supporter of racial segregation. He said this about Martin Luther King, "I do question the sincerity of People like the Reverend Martin Luther King..."

Falwell often attributes political affiliation to the divine, claiming that God "is a Republican" [28] and Jesus "was the First American."







Great man.

5/15/2007 1:45:24 PM

i hope larry flynt says something about him

5/15/2007 1:46:00 PM

SMITED

5/15/2007 2:03:31 PM

So, I wonder if he got blanked out of existance, or if he is in his first hours of the afterlife. I always think about that shit when someone dies. haha.

5/15/2007 2:24:26 PM

I look forward to hearing the GOP candidates offering their thoughts on Falwell tonight during their debate.

5/15/2007 2:46:43 PM

They'll praise him like Reagan?





oh wow, that would be great to watch...

5/15/2007 2:49:59 PM

i didn't even THINK about that possibility.

5/15/2007 2:50:36 PM

its obvious that he died because god was punishing him

5/15/2007 2:53:19 PM

good riddance

5/15/2007 2:54:39 PM

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"Great man."

sadly enough, there are people that post here that would say that in seriousness.

salisburyboy and Wlfpk4Life come to mind.

5/15/2007 2:54:55 PM

On a political note, I wonder how his passing is treated by the candidates tonight at Fox News' Republican debate. Particularly the couple that don't see eye-to-eye with Falwell and if their opponents will needle them on that.

5/15/2007 3:17:06 PM

it's scary to me that only a couple of republican candidates running for president don't see eye to eye with this nut.

[Edited on May 15, 2007 at 3:18 PM. Reason : r]

5/15/2007 3:18:36 PM

good riddance

5/15/2007 3:36:33 PM

good fucking riddance

5/15/2007 4:00:45 PM

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"So, I wonder if he got blanked out of existance, or if he is in his first hours of the afterlife. I always think about that shit when someone dies. haha."

there is no heaven or hell. no matter what you did in life, the fate is the same. nothingness.

5/15/2007 4:24:54 PM

because you died and found it out, and then came back to life to tell us, right?

i hate when people say such bullshit.

YOU CAN'T KNOW EITHER WAY.

5/15/2007 4:29:16 PM

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""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." In the 1980s Jerry Falwell was an outspoken supporter of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. When president PW Botha was elected President by the White South African minority, Reverend Falwell went to South Africa and made statements supporting the government there and urging American Christians to buy Krugerrands, a coin issued by the South African Government[17]. He drew the ire of many when he called Nobel Peace Prize winner and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu a phony. He later apologized for that remark and claimed that he had misspoken[18]. In 1994, Falwell released the straight-to-video documentary "The Clinton Chronicles: An Investigation into the Alleged Criminal Activities of Bill Clinton." The video connected Bill Clinton to a conspiracy theory involving Vincent Foster, James McDougall, Ron Brown, and an alleged cocaine-smuggling operation. Despite the theories being discredited by all major investigations, the video's sophisticated production techniques served as effective exposure, and sold over 150,000 copies. In an interview for the 2005 documentary The Hunting of the President Falwell admitted, "To this day I do not know the accuracy of the claims made in The Clinton Chronicles," but failed to condemn the poor research. Falwell is a controversial subject for his theological, political and social beliefs. After the September 11, 2001, attacks Falwell said on the 700 Club, "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.'" Falwell remarked, "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals." During the Civil Rights Movement Reverend Falwell was a supporter of racial segregation. He said this about Martin Luther King, "I do question the sincerity of People like the Reverend Martin Luther King..." Falwell often attributes political affiliation to the divine, claiming that God "is a Republican" [28] and Jesus "was the First American.""

never heard of this guy, but if all thats true. good riddance! What a terrible human being. I'm ashamed that he claimed to be a Christian.

5/15/2007 4:33:15 PM

Thank God, and good riddance.

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"never heard of this guy"

How is that possible?

5/15/2007 4:40:58 PM

While I'm no fan of Falwell, all these "Good Riddences" do not reflect well on the lefty ideals of tolerance and respect for other opinions. I hope conservatives show more class when the next liberal icon kicks it.

5/15/2007 4:41:21 PM

One less fundie fucktard to embarrass the rest of the rational world.

5/15/2007 4:41:37 PM

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"While I'm no fan of Falwell, all these "Good Riddences" do not reflect well on the lefty ideals of tolerance and respect for other opinions."

I don't have to be tolerant of somebody's hatred and bile.

5/15/2007 4:43:30 PM

Fallwell is the rights equivalent of Michael Moore, yet more offensive and much more powerful. (he has his own college!)

[Edited on May 15, 2007 at 4:44 PM. Reason : .]

5/15/2007 4:44:01 PM

Pfft, liberals dance on the graves of their own heroes to win votes, so why should it surprise anybody that they dance on the graves of those they disagree with? Love, compassion, and tolerance my ass.

5/15/2007 4:48:20 PM

^ list some adjectives to describe him.

no sentences, just adjectives.

for eg

great
cool
horrible
ok
passionate
kind
heartless

etc

5/15/2007 4:51:18 PM

Didn't agree with him 100 percent, but he was passionate in what he believed and I had a lot of respect for him. I enjoyed listening to his sermons and watching his show. He had some great guests like Bobby Bowden who came on and gave their testimonies.

I'm not surprised that CNN or those here would paint Falwell in such a negative light, given that the man just passed away.

Besides, my respect for the man has nothing to do with the vitroil spewing forth from some of those here. I can personally say I wouldn't say such a thing about Michael Moore, Bill Clinton, or anyone else on the other side of the political spectrum. Falwell certainly is not the right's equavilent of a murderer like Castro or the guy in Venezuela.

5/15/2007 4:59:40 PM

we all need our high horses

5/15/2007 5:00:56 PM

^^he would say equally terrible things about people dying of aids.

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"Pfft, liberals dance on the graves of their own heroes to win votes, so why should it surprise anybody that they dance on the graves of those they disagree with? Love, compassion, and tolerance my ass."

huh?

oh yeah and ronald reagan anyone?

[Edited on May 15, 2007 at 5:10 PM. Reason : .]

5/15/2007 5:10:13 PM

Because saying it is as bad as somebody actully killing someone else. Brilliant!

What do you mean Ronald Reagan? If I remember correctly his funeral was as standard, formal, and respectful as any other President that has passed away. Or are you trolling, again?

[Edited on May 15, 2007 at 5:14 PM. Reason : ffs]

5/15/2007 5:13:54 PM

Westboro Baptist Church will protest Jerry Falwell's funeral.

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"WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like "God loves everyone". There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable. To wit: 1. Falwell was a true Calvinistic Baptist when he was a young preacher in Springfield, Missouri, and sold his soul to Free-Willism (Arminianism) for lucre. 2. Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC's faithful Bible preaching -- thereby committing the unpardonable sin -- otherwise known as the sin against the Holy Ghost. 3. Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre -- making him guilty of their sins."

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

5/15/2007 5:17:03 PM

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"Because saying it is as bad as somebody actully killing someone else."

huh? who is killing anybody here?

you are saying all these lefties here are evil for saying godd riddance at someone's death, but what about fallwell, who said the same thing at the death of anybody he thought was cursed by god (aids people, lefties, abortionists, FEMINISTS, etc).

so while you condemn the lefties here for "celebrating" his death, you roll your eyes at fallwell doing the same?

can you condemn him too?

5/15/2007 5:22:55 PM

Did Falwell say good riddance to anybody who died? He gave his opinion on why things happened, just that, nothing more, and the last time I checked, it's perfectly fine to have an opinion in this country. Besides, he didn't dance for joy or the like when he made his comments, and certainly wasn't happy about it.

Evil is in this world, and Falwell's comments aren't going to change that. He did a lot of good work with his evangelizing and preaching. I think he is right, to a point, that those he opposed are not for the gospel that he believes in. How many devout Christians make up the ranks of the gay community, hardline feminists, leftists, abortionists, etc.?

5/15/2007 5:30:33 PM

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"He did a lot of good work with his evangelizing and preaching. "

I disagree.

5/15/2007 5:33:34 PM

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"Westboro Baptist Church will protest Jerry Falwell's funeral."

ha! It's always funny to see one evil crap on another.

5/15/2007 5:46:43 PM

Wasn't Falwell a star witness in the Scopes Monkey Trial?

5/15/2007 6:05:00 PM

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"WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like "God loves everyone". There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable. To wit:"

wait, did falwell actually say that God loves everyone?

but i also thought he said God hates fags, and other such stuff?

corpulent, haha, made me chuckle!

and what's "irrefragable"? i am sure its a word, but don't feel like looking it up.

anyway, these WBC people are hardcore haters. i just hope they never get their hands on weapons and shit!

5/15/2007 6:16:28 PM

He died like a martyr

5/15/2007 6:28:04 PM

you're mad that someone talked crap about homos and liberals

so you think you have the right to mock their death

i hope you realize that you are no better than him

you're far, far worse

5/15/2007 6:34:48 PM

^Far, far worse?

LOL

5/15/2007 6:40:07 PM

can someone post the BYE picture

til then

BYE!

5/15/2007 6:44:20 PM

yeah, that's what i was thinking, his compass is broken.


Person A: homos, liberals, feminists are bad, and God's scourge will befall them, and has befallen them!

Person B: (after A dies) thank God person A is dead... good riddance.


prep-e: Person B is far far worse than Person A based on what they said!

5/15/2007 6:44:38 PM

^^

5/15/2007 6:52:36 PM

Im not saying "good riddance" but the guy was a piece of shit.

I would find it ironic, and possibly humorous if when he died he all of a sudden found out there is no heaven, hell, god, satan, or anything else.

5/15/2007 6:59:21 PM

we can always rely on Wlfpk4Life and prep-e to bring the stupid


and good riddance i say

5/15/2007 7:55:12 PM

[Edited on May 15, 2007 at 8:19 PM. Reason : bye]

5/15/2007 8:19:25 PM

Falrewell

5/15/2007 8:33:05 PM