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What do you think, folks? Obviously, the nonbelievers are taking the believers to the cleaners these days. Do you think it's possible that Jerry Falwell inadvertantly caused this uprising by pushing Christianity into a spotlight it should have stayed out of?

I know that's why I'm an activist. If it wasn't for Falwell and people like him, I wouldn't be out here proving these people wrong. I would have left them alone, as I could care less what they believe, as long as they keep it to themselves.

Could it be, that perhaps Jerry Falwell is to be admired... as he is one of the instigators of the final fall of religion?

2007-05-24 06:39:41 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

I'm not talking about YA, Skatawhateveryournameis, I'm talking about in the political arena, the media, etc. And yes, we are a minority, however, the atheists speaking out now have grown exponentially in the last few years. You just haven't paid attention. You will.

2007-05-24 06:48:01 · update #1

clwkcmo - I just did it yesterday. Look at the last question I asked about the book of Genesis.

2007-05-24 07:08:28 · update #2

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Falwell certainly was instrument in making religion matter a LOT to those who would otherwise have just as soon ignored it, kind of like bin Laden did for Islam. Christianity has of course suffered for it.

Christians here often ask why atheists "attack Christianity", but not other religions. I respond, how many atheist attacks on the Amish have you seen here? The Amish are Christians, yet we're perfectly happy to leave them alone. The difference is not which god one believes in, but rather the behavior of the believer.

2007-05-24 06:48:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5 1

Of first importance, you really need to look up and attempt to understand the definition of imminent.

Believers have been taken to far worse events than "the cleaners", such as hangings on crosses, being burned at the stake, and pushed off of cliffs by the hundreds, etc., etc.

I dare say you have yet to prove the Bible wrong at any time in your life. You may have proved a believer wrong if they misunderstood or misquoted, but you will never, never, ever prove there is not one God.

You will never disprove the Son of God, Jesus the Christ came to earth to save you and me from our sins!

Maybe the true reason you are an "activist" is because the Holy Spirit is still working in your heart and making every effort to allow you to acknowledge what is true and become a worker for the Lord!

I pray this will happen for you, enabling you to know the peace of God, a peace that passes all understanding.

2007-05-24 07:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by clwkcmo 5 · 2 1

Jerry Falwell was responsible for making the most extreme, close minded, bigoted, Fundamentalist segment of Christianity one of the most powerful political forces in our country. Not only have he and people like him given Christianity a bad name, and even religion in general, they have nearly completely taken over the Republican Party, and sent this country on the course toward Theocracy. The insane mess our country has been in for the past seven years under the Bush regime can be blamed, in part, on people like Jerry Falwell. May he rot in his own Hell.

2007-05-24 06:53:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

The parallel fails on one considerable component. Wright is racially obsessed and the others are actually not. this is the racial understanding and divisiveness that's the subject. Seeing secularist western civilization extra often than no longer and American custom specially as debased and lost is not any fault and to be inspired. it truly is not any diverse than the prophets lamenting immorality, Jesus attacking the Jewish custom of his day, Socrates attacking the Athenian custom, Livy or Augustine attacking the Roman custom, and Luther attacking the corruption of the Church in 1517. besides, you will see comparable statements on the Huffington submit or the different leftist weblog, however from a diverse perspective and objective. healthful grievance of a debauched and immoral custom isn't only with solid precedent yet mandatory, yet a divisiveness consistent with racial understanding is silly, puerlile, and ignorant.

2016-10-13 08:31:59 · answer #4 · answered by goodman 4 · 0 0

You are giving Jerry Falwell a LOT of power, dude.

As far as being an activist - prooving people wrong - I take it you are talking about Christians. Aren't you smart enough to realize that 1 "over zealous" Christian w/ "out there" views does not make up the "whole bunch"?

FINAL FALL OF RELIGION. What planet are you from?

Also re: keep it to themselves. I hope you are not referring to R& S = Religion & Spirituallity site. If so, think about it.

2007-05-24 06:50:37 · answer #5 · answered by Kaliko 6 · 0 2

Just because most Christians are out living their lives and not on Yahoo Answers fighting the good-fight against the Atheists doesn't mean that the Atheists are "taking us to the cleaners"...do I need to remind you that you are a measly 1% of our population? We're 84%...taking us to the cleaners? Hardly. Most of us just have lives...if I wasn't a receptionist with nothing better to do than answer the phone and post on here all day I would be out living my life too. Ya'll are dominating here because you have nothing better to do and nowhere else to spew your venom; it's pathetic.

If you meant the political arena you should have specified Captain Agnostic (as I do not believe there is such a thing as a true Atheist)...in the political arena or in Yahoo it doesn't make that much of a difference...you are a small group which means that if any of you do not vote it gets you nowhere...not that it would gets you very far if every single one of you voted...1% against 84%...why bother? Honestly.

2007-05-24 06:46:18 · answer #6 · answered by stakekawa 3 · 2 2

We can hope my friend.

Faith-Based Fraud
Jerry Falwell's foul rantings prove you can get away with anything if you have "Reverend" in front of your name.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007, at 12:46 PM ET
The Rev. Jerry Falwell
The discovery of the carcass of Jerry Falwell on the floor of an obscure office in Virginia has almost zero significance, except perhaps for two categories of the species labeled "credulous idiot." The first such category consists of those who expected Falwell (and themselves) to be bodily raptured out of the biosphere and assumed into the heavens, leaving pilotless planes and driverless trucks and taxis to crash with their innocent victims as collateral damage. This group is so stupid and uncultured that it may perhaps be forgiven. It is so far "left behind" that almost its only pleasure is to gloat at the idea of others being abandoned in the same condition.

The second such category is of slightly more importance, because it consists of the editors, producers, publicists, and a host of other media riffraff who allowed Falwell to prove, almost every week, that there is no vileness that cannot be freely uttered by a man whose name is prefaced with the word Reverend. Try this: Call a TV station and tell them that you know the Antichrist is already on earth and is an adult Jewish male. See how far you get. Then try the same thing and add that you are the Rev. Jim-Bob Vermin. "Why, Reverend, come right on the show!" What a fool Don Imus was. If he had paid the paltry few bucks to make himself a certified clergyman, he could be jeering and sneering to the present hour.

Falwell went much further than his mad 1999 assertion about the Jewish Antichrist. In the time immediately following the assault by religious fascism on American civil society in September 2001, he used his regular indulgence on the airwaves to commit treason. Entirely exculpating the suicide-murderers, he asserted that their acts were a divine punishment of the United States. Again, I ask you to imagine how such a person would be treated if he were not supposedly a man of faith.


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2007-05-24 06:44:20 · answer #7 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 3 4

It will take more than a few atheists and the devil to be the death of Christianity.

Jerry Falwell stood up my friend when he saw the devil winning in this world. Taking a stand against evil was never a problem to Jerry Falwell.

The Bible explains that in the latter days there will be a great falling away and Copernicanism and Evolutionism the creations of over-educated idiots who believe themselves to be smarter than God are the evils destroying many men.

2007-05-24 06:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1 3

Nope I think Jerry Falwell actually brought MORE people into the fold of fundamentalism.

Lots of fair-minded Christians could not stand him either but they also take responsibility for not being TWICE as loud as he was in countering his hatred and silencing him for embarrassing them and turning many away in disgust from their faith.

2007-05-24 06:50:16 · answer #9 · answered by pixie_pagan 4 · 0 1

You start with a bad assumption and have yet to prove me wrong.

But I am not a big fan of Jerry Falwell etiher.

Peace!

2007-05-24 06:45:34 · answer #10 · answered by C 7 · 2 0

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