Jerry Falwell would have hated me too, why should I mourn his passing?

Question

I read a question DEMANDING that people have compassion for the man, and I want to know...if I am one of the people he hated, why would he need compassion from me?

Just to clarify (since he hated MANY) he would have hated me for believing the radical notion that women are people. He called people like me 'feminist' with such disdain, he actually blamed us for 9/11

Philip, if it smells like sh*t and looks like Sh*t the fact that you wan't call it sh*t does not negate the fact that it is sh*t. and I heard it STRAIGHT OUT OF HIS MOUTH that he points the finger right in my face (as a feminist) for blame of 9/11...I mean seriously, your retort is just ridiculous.

funny how ,many of you will have respect for someone only after he is dead...it is OK to say crap about someone when they are alive, but not when they are dead. Gimme a break...that is SO christian (*sarcasm*_)

ndgbill, you are misytaking my question for 'permission asking' rather than 'rhetorical'. I WILL not mourn his passing, and no one will convince me to, based on my moral code. I am not asking IF i should, I am asking why someone would demand that I respect a person who respects nothing outside of himself.

Matt, OUR intentions? I am Catholic, who is 'we'? Nice way to assume that I have no faith. yeah, i know your intentions, and they aren't GODS intentions;.

Answer 1

I think he pretty much hated everybody, except people tithing in his church.

That man is less of a Christian than Guliani is a Republican.

However, celebrating after someone's death should only occur after a murderous dictator (Hitler, Castro, Saddam) dies, not a self-hating , false-Christian man dies. A death is tragic, no matter who it is, unless that person has caused the deaths of many already.

Answer 2

I for one do not mourn his passing, but I am not happy that he is dead either. The truth is that there was quite a bit not to like about Falwell. So, while I don't really feel any sympathy for the departed, I do have compassion for his loved ones. Personally, I don't care if anyone mourns anyone, but I do think it is bad form to speak ill of the dead.

So why should you show compassion in this time? The answer is simple! Because it is the decent and moral thing to do. My sincerest hope is that you would receive no less from him were the situation reversed.

Answer 3

incredible attitude, and that i doubt you even knew Mr. Falwell for my section. Why are you so hateful? with the aid of the style you're splendid, that is incorrect to mourn Mr. Falwell simply by fact he's in Heaven and could savor a appropriate lifestyles for all of eternity. I doubt you could say a similar.

Answer 4

How can you logically mourn the passing of someone you didnt know and had no affect on you? Its crazy the way some people think he was a great man, I dont share that belief, but they do. If they want to mourn his death no one is stopping them from doing so. By all means they should be celebrating his passing because his death enabled him to be where he truly wanted to be.

Answer 5

What are you basing your quote "Falwell hated." I think I have read or nearly heard all of Falwell's sppeches and I never once heard him use the phrase "I hate...."
Your statement is based on prejudice, misquotes, and rumors. Neither you nor anyone else has a window into Falwell's conscience. Nor can you find a statement where he "hated" someone or group.
I might add there are a great many liberal opponents that blame america for 9/11 and even accuse the US government of staging the attack.
Wishing someone dead or showing glee over someone's demise seems to me to a huge indicator of "hate."

Answer 6

That you should ask if you should mourn Falwell's death given the fact that he would have hated you,indicates a person who leads his/her life NOT by their own set of moral/ethical codes but a person whose moral and ethical behaviors are based upon what the other person does or says.Such behavior is not respectable and devoid of any personal integrity.

Falwell was nothing but a rabble rousing religious fanatic essentially NO different than the Islamic,Jewish religious fundamentalists.

History is replete in testifying to the fact that these religious zealots have brought nothing but wars,slaughters,genocides,rape,torture to humanity all claiming to be acting on behalf of GOD.

The Falwells of this word are reprehensible ,dangerous bigots,racists and bastardizers of religious beliefs to suit their own highly disfunctional personalities who use and abuse GOD and people's need for faith and spiritual connections.

Those that will mourn Falwell are his fellow Christian fundies and the Republican Party and the latter not because they particularily liked him but because he was able to pursuade the Christian fundies to follow him over the cliff like the good little lemmings they are.

These whacko fundies while railing against the taking of life in the womb have no friggin problem whatsoever with the taking of life through capital punishment or Bush's war in Iraq .

That they decide what life is worth saving and what life is not,these arrogant evil people presume to know the mind of God who through Christ gave us the moral tenet that ALL LIFE IS PRECIOUS .Their hypocricy is simply monumental.

These fundies and Falwell are largely responsible for that lying ,God using/abusing war mongering perpetrator of crimes against humanity Bush being President.

Considering Bush and these highly dangerous fundies are so responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of millions of INNOCENT Iraqi men ,women and children I suggest readers forget about mourning this truly evil person and mourn the Iraqi children slaughtered.

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Answer 7

Amen. I will always remember Reverend Falwell and Reverend Pat Robertson on the night of 9-11, just smiling and gloating, so happy that God had finally smote America by killing 3,000 of our brother and sister Americans. It might have been the most disgusting performance I have ever seen. What a disgrace! And you are right, he spat out the word "feminist" with utter loathing, hatred, and contempt. The man was evil. The world is better off without him and it would have been a better world if he had never been born. He is the one who praised Al Qaeda, I am glad he is gone.

Answer 8

It is in God's hands now, he will be judged. You're suppose to love your so-called ememy. He wasn't my ememy but I don't hate anyone regardless of how abrasive they are to me.(as long as not physcial then gloves are off) He would anger me sometimes especially saying things and him being a man of the Cloth.
When it is someone I may have trouble feeling for, I think of their family. I wish them comfort in the difficult time.

Answer 9

The Bible teaches to hate sin, not sinners. You along with many are mistaken about our intentions.

Answer 10

I didn't like the man or his bigotry and hypocrisy, but I have sympathy for his family as they have lost a husband and father. What the man did during his life is a moot point now. I can let it go.