Really i have no idea who this bloke is.
I hate being out of the loop :'(
2007-05-15 19:47:47 · 16 answers · asked by Bobby 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
OK, but people Die all the time, why is his so special???
On December 27th of 2004
my grandma died, did you guys talk about her too? ^_^
2007-05-15 19:51:22 · update #1
HE did us a favor today !
2007-05-15 19:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by KEVIN D 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
It makes sense that you wouldn't have known him. In Europe, any guy who said the kinds of things Falwell said against just about everyone who didn't believe as he did would have either been laughed off the stage or confined to a mental hospital. Or sued into oblivion. Don't sweat it; you didn't miss much. I'm sorry for his family, and I offer my condolences, but I don't miss him. Maybe Christian discourse will become somewhat less bigoted now (though with Pat Robertson still around, it isn't likely).
2007-05-16 03:03:37 · answer #2 · answered by link955 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Falwell made it acceptable for people to publicly wish death, disease, persecution and hatred against people you don't like, provided you do it in the name of God.
edit: For nicole--my I ask where your outrage is when Falwell was gloating over the deaths of 3000 victims on 9/11 ?
2007-05-16 03:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jerry Falwell (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American fundamentalist Christian pastor and televangelist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. He also founded Liberty University in 1971 and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.
here are some choice quotes:
"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals."
"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.'"
(he apologized for that one later)
"Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers."
"I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them."
2007-05-16 02:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 4⤋
Jerry Falwell is a religious fundamentalist. Presumably he's gone to a "better" place now.
2007-05-16 02:51:58 · answer #5 · answered by Ben 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's because he FINALLY did something mankind can truely thank him for... HE DIED! (Yeah... little harsh, but he was a very harsh guy. So I don't feel too bad!)
2007-05-16 03:14:36 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah S 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is a message. There is a messenger to present the message. Then there is Jerry.
Jerry is not the messenger nor does he have the message.
As far as loops go, they are just loops....
2007-05-16 02:56:05 · answer #7 · answered by J. 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He died today.
2007-05-16 02:49:32 · answer #8 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He died. He was a bigoted, hateful, nasty little right-wing blow-hard and he died. I wasn't happy that he was alive and I'm not happy that he's dead. It's a sorry situation all around.
2007-05-16 02:50:46 · answer #9 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
He was a televangelist...one of those *hellfire and damnation* kind of preachers....blamed gays, women, people other than whites for all the troubles in the world....google him and you will get quite the education....have fun....
2007-05-16 02:52:39 · answer #10 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Be glad you didn't know him. I had never heard of him as well. I started reading up on him today, to figure out who he was.
I strongly advise you not to do the same. What I read was hell.
2007-05-16 02:51:16 · answer #11 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋