Questions for those happy Falwell is dead?

Question

Did you feel the same way when Mother Teresa passed away??
How will you feel when Billy Graham passes?? Or Pat Robertson??
Is it that they are ALL religious figures, or is it just Jerry Falwell you do not like??

People, I asked if you FELT the same!!
I am not saying they are the same person.
Mother Teresa, Falwell, Robertson, and Graham, are ALL religious figures.
If that is the only thing they have in common, then I will accept that opinion.

Answer 1

Mother Teresa's passing was different.There was a woman who dedicated her life,according to the principles she believed in,to helping others, completely selfless.Jerry Falwell,Pat Robertson, and others of their ilk are pompous,grandstanding bigots who hide behind their bibles while spewing their messages of hate and intolerance.They don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Mother Teresa ,unless the caveat "are nothing like" is between them

Answer 2

Mother Teresa never preached hatred. When she died, we all knew that a very special, holy person had passed.

Billy Graham has said some controversial things, but he didn't call the civil rights movement the "civil wrongs movement." He didn't support apartheid in South Africa. He didn't blame the 9/11 attacks on feminists, gays, lesbians, and liberals. When he did say something offensive to Jews or gays, he apologized, instead of bragging about it.

Pat Robertson is another story. Like Falwell, I won't be happy for his death, rather I will be glad this he is now longer preaching his brand of hatred on the airwaves. These are not religious figures in the way Mother Teresa or Billy Graham are religious figures. They are political figures in the way Osama Bin Laden is a political figure.

Answer 3

I'm not happy, per se, that Jerry Falwell is dead, it's more relief. And to compare him to Mother Teresa is ludicrous. Did Mother Teresa say that God let 9/11 happen to punish America for allowing gays, lesbians, feminists, etc. etc. to have basic human rights in our country? Did Mother Teresa spend a good amount of time and money trying specifically to inject RELIGIOUS agendas into our SECULAR government? Did Mother Teresa hypocritically decry the Islamic governments in the Middle East while using all of her power and influence to secure a Christian government in the United States?

The university that Jerry Falwell founded actually teaches that global warming has no scientific basis whatsoever and was invented by the Democrats to be used as a political tool. Meanwhile coral reefs and marine life are dying all over the planet as the oceans warm because they're so sensitive to climate change.

Please. To compare Mother Teresa to Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham or Pat Robertson is an appalling insult to Mother Teresa.

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Answer 4

Mother Teresa: I was sad. She was saint-like. Not a pseudo-politician.

Billy Graham: I'll feel indifferent. He is a good man who fell in love with himself. He serves himself more than others.

Pat Robertson: I'll be happy. He's in the same league as Falwell. A manipulator, a divider, an ego-maniacal hypocrite.

Answer 5

It is not so much that I am happy he is dead as I am happy he can stop spreading his prejudice and form of fundamentalism. Pat Robertson, I would like to see stop doing the same thing that made Falwell famous. Christianity is not the only way to live or the only church to go to. Both of them I hate for making anyone who disagrees with their faith, wrong, evil, or even unpatriotic.

Mother Teresa I can not say the same of, because she did what her faith asked of her and tried to lead by example.

Billy Graham has gone to the extremes yet, so I don't have much thought for him either way. Until he starts pounding on my choice of faith and trying to limit it, I am fine with his choice.

Answer 6

Mother Theresa was a wonderful human being; a model of compassion and sacrifice, what most people like to think Jesus wanted from us.

Billy Graham is an example of a good man misguided by his Evangelical beliefs.

Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are greedy, dishonest, hate-filled, hate-mongering examples of religion gone horribly wrong.

Answer 7

Quite frankly, I'll be happy when all of them are dead.

1) Mother Teresa didn't actually help people, she just brought them inside and tried to convert them while they died.

2) Billy Graham is a devout anti-Semite.

3) Pat Robertson blamed hurricane Katrina on the homosexuals.

Just because they're religious doesn't mean we have to like them. In fact, because of their power to persuade they should be held to a higher standard then normal people. Spreading hate in the name or religion is worse then spreading hate on its own. At least then it's honest.

Answer 8

Comparing a fraud like Jerry Falwell to Mother Teresa is ridiculous.

Jerry Falwell's lived a rich man's life and was concerned only of the flesh.

Mother Teresa lived among the poor and owned nothing.

Answer 9

Mother Teresa did God's work...she helped the poor, the orphaned...she was meek.

Billy Graham is a Godly man...gives himself only a meager salary...he does not claim to have all of the answers...and admits so.

Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are hate mongerers, and far from the other two. Falwell blamed the 9-11 attacks on homosexuals and abortionists...
Robertson blamed the hurricanes in Florida several years ago on the homosexuals...is this of God?

I think not.

Answer 10

I am not happy that anyone dies. But I don't have empathy for Falwell. What goes around comes around.

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.'"

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

He said this about Martin Luther King, "I do question the sincerity of people like the Reverend Martin Luther King..."

Compared to what Falwell has said, his critics are going light on him.