Was Jerry Falwell a Hate Monger?

Question

Or did he just make those outrageous statements to gain publisicity for himself and his church / caus such as getting an apprearance on the Larry King TV show?

Answer 1

I think a bit from column a and a bit from column b. I really do think he believed that stuff he was saying. During the height of his power, I think he really said what he meant. And unfortunately a lot of people agree with him. Whether he personally hated or not, he was a hate monger (i.e. a person who disseminates or stirs up something undesirable). He allowed many bigots to justify their feelings and make a lot of people's lives miserable.

I also think he was a savvy media player, who knew exactly what to say to be quoted, and make the front pages. Did he believe that stuff? Yes. Did he play it up for the attention and power it brought to him? Absolutely.

Answer 2

"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve," he said this regarding 9/11, he thought we deserved the 9/11 attacks because America has so many liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters and he tried to say it was partially their faults.

"I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem. " Those are his feelings about feminists.

" 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." (On the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, another quote blaming 9/11 on people he did not accept

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals"
Is this the quote of a religious man?

"I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status" He was opposed to homosexuals being protected under hate crime legislation after the Matthew Sheppard incident, he basically defended the actions of the two murderers in this incident.


These are just a few of the many hateful quotes that he spewed over the years. He was not a religious man, he was a hate monger, he preached intolerance and hate. He tried to blame feminists, freedom of choice supporters, homosexuals, and civil righs groups for 9/11, he said AIDs was punishment from God for not going after homosexuals. He was 100% fullf hate and nothing else, he was pure evil and a true hate monger. Look up his name ad hate andlook at the millions of websites that come up, look at some of the groups that followed him and used his quotes and all that you can find are hate, hate, hate. People like him set this country back decades, people like him are the reason people do not live peacefully. He was nothing more then a hate monger, if you do not believe do a search for his quotes, nothing positive just all hate.

Answer 3

Yes he was very divisive within the US, he polarized the country with his extreme right wing conservative views and is partly responsible for the divide in the us now. However as he got older his outrageous statements after 9/11 and about characters like Tinky Winky and Spongebob and saying that the Christians will convert the Jews to Christianity eventually marginalized his influence.

Answer 4

i'm no fan of the previous due Reverand Falwell, with the aid of any stretch of the mind's eye, yet to wish somebody is burning in Hell? i'm not hoping that, simply by fact one he substitute right into a individual too, that could be a species that I take place to belong too. additionally i might elect to assert that merely simply by fact his evaluations and ideology did not tournament yours or mine is genuinely no reason to hate somebody. that could be a classless simply by fact the hypocrisy of Al "Mormo hater" Sharpton and Jesse "Hymie city" Jackson. I disagreed with the guy and theory him an fool, yet that would not advise i needed harm to befall him and his.

Answer 5

I never hated Rev. Falwell. I was just amazed at most of his comments because they just seemed so contradictory to the message of God. I hope that when he stands in judgement that God is merciful because Rev. Falwell wasn't in life.

Answer 6

once you have beliefs, yo automoatically divide yourself from others

so i guess a lot of people are vegetables

if Falwell believed in prochoice and Hollywood values the Left would embrace him

Answer 7

I love it when know nothing teens who have never read the Bible try & tell everyone what it says. J. F. was 100% right when he spoke about what the Bible says. you don't have a problem with him, your problem is with GOD!

BTW nothing like a person calling someone a hate monger while vomiting up hate about that person.

Answer 8

I'm no kid. Back in the day he was a close as you could get to a hate monger, to use your word. Plus that nut Reagan was in the White House.
In the end the man mellowed out. He was not as wacky as sometime back.
I'm sorry to see him pass.

Answer 9

Jerrry Falwell only stood up for what God said is "right" and "wrong"! If you hate Jerry Falwell then you hate the word oF God..Simple..People who are "lost" find every excuse for hating any Man of God.....NEXTTTTTTTTTT !!!! The lost call him a hate monger because they hated Jesus first and called Him every hateful thing in the world...Jesus said in "this world" you will be hated for My Name's sake so there you have it! !!! If they hate Jerry Falwell they hate God too because he only preached the word of of GOD

Answer 10

This POS was as much a False Christian as our POS George Warprofits Bush is!

God Loves everyone not just a select right winged few!