Jerry Falwell Calling the Iraq War "Just", Reveals him to Be Morally Bankrupt, Any Thoughts?

Question

Apparently, David L, he is Rich too, Another Contradiction.

Again, idiotsreside, Change the Subject, for your Info, I am Not the Issue.

Answer 1

He pissed me off about 25 years ago when AIDS was becoming a serious problem. He said that people who died from AIDS were being punished by God for their lifestyle.
I refused to waste my energy being angry at him, but every time I see his name, I think that he has no business having a church, he has no business preaching to anyone, and he has no business inflicting his ideas on anyone. I just hope that people who hear him are more intelligent than to listen to him.
To say that the war in Iraq is just is insane. Its a mess and there is no clear way out of it. And thats the sad part.

Answer 2

I'm going to take an extreme, more global stance here, since everyone else seems to have already covered all the specific issues:

Morally bankruptcy is one way of putting it. A more appropriate label for Mr. Falwell though might be: naive conforming ignorant sociopath.

How can he be deemed emotionally or intellectually informed by calling war “just”? Do you think he (or any other proponents of war) consider the real societal ramifications of televised images of violence or have any idea what they really are?

Intellectual ignorance and misguided emotionality makes it easy to conform with accepted dominant ideology regarding the “utility” of war. Killing, maiming, and the emotional terror involved in war is a means to a *positive* societal end right....only when it’s not defined as what it is and only those encompassed in this positive societal end are considered. Surely those not directly affected, so perhaps only those who merely sanction it, from far away intellectually and physically, are safe, who can’t *really* see the contradiction in the said purpose of it.

What underlies the justification of murder, be it in war or through an act of a serial killer is similar, but seemingly only the former may be guised using macro, moral ideals. An authoritative “important”, like Mr. Falwell says: war (i.e, murder) is “just”. Yet, the key element of a dangerous sociopath entails disrupting or harming the functioning of a group, society or violating the rights of others. So, what’s the real difference here? Unfortunately, power accompanied by misdirected fear, anger, and a lack of connectivity between intellectual means and behavioural ends will always mask the truth.

Answer 3

Iraqi war is a military and economic necessity to U.S. It started with a ruse that "Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction". That was disproved
So the war is not just.
Amerca will have a servile friend in Iraq.
No marks for Saddam but
Saddam`s hanging was unofficially telecast all over the world. How just was that?

Answer 4

I think we should recruit all of Mr. Falwell's family members or members of his congregation that are of fighting age.. Including his daughters(if he has any) and put them on the front lines.. Maybe his thoughts about the war would change then,but I doubt it.. He's a zealot.

Answer 5

Well since Jerry knows there has to be a major war going on in the Mideast in order for the messiah to return I can see why he thinks the Iraq war is a "Just" one.

Answer 6

Sadly, anything Falwell is for the rest of us should be against. Never has there been a more self-righteous moron on the face of this planet. We'd all be better off if he'd shut up and head to Muslim held lands to share his opinions with them.

Of course, good tv could be a deathmatch between him and Osama. Now that would be fun.

Answer 7

No. I still believe that the war is a just war. The country was sponsoring anti-Israeli terrorist with the oil with food program.

Also, Iraq under Saddam still claimed Kuwait are an Iraqi province.

Answer 8

This is the same guy who stood against Civil Rights in this country. He was already Bankrupt.

Answer 9

Are we ever going to stop listening to these false preachers? Are we going to wake up someday? Are we not sick and tired of these scumbags hypocrisy yet? When are we going to stop making wealthy these bottom-feeders? These people, (and I'm using the term loosely). have the morals of snakes. But, again, as I have said over and over again, it's not them who are to be blamed, IS US who keep elevating these aberrations of human beings to levels they don't deserve. We haven't learn from the Jim Baker, Jim Swaggart, Benny Hin, Ted Haggard's of the world, and as long as we don't put a stop to this insanity, they will keep engorging their pockets with our hard earned money and using the name of GOD to cover up their immoral and criminal actions.

Answer 10

you mean jerry $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ je$u$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ falwell?