Randy Cassingham's Blog

I don't care how many boxes of your cards he had, I know where he is right now.

I'm with you all the way here, Randy. Falwell was indeed a failure as a human being. If he'd like to see a truly inspiring human he should look at the people who you feature in your weekly "Honorary Unsubscribe" feature. Thank God you clearly weren't tempted to feature Falwell there!

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Indeed there was no temptation to include Falwell in the HU section, not when I have people like Anna Radosz (this week's honoree) to hold up as inspiration to us all.

P.S.: I'm truly saddened to see that anyone outside the U.S. has any idea who Falwell is.... -rc

Falwell (along with Robertson, Wildmon, and Phelps, et al) should have remembered their story about the Pharisees before crowing about their moral superiority over us mere ignorant Christians or worse, non-Christians.

It was the Pharisees who were most influential in the death of Christ. To emulate them in the NAME of Christ is probably the biggest hypocrisy that many religious leaders display.

I appreciate your thoughts about Jerry Falwell. Good riddance. I am disgusted that our Republican politicians seem to think that their apparent acceptance of that bigot's thinking is necessary to validate their candidacy. Also, the spineless reports from the media reinforce their worthlessness as reporters of the news.

One must wonder, however, if his final words were "...and if this isn't true, may the Lord strike me down where I stand!" You can only use that statement so many times before you get taken up on it. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I'm thankful that his personal brand of hate will no longer poison the world.

Can't say much more which hasn't been said...other than to raise my glass & hope Jerry & these other "christian" leaders bring their asbestos swim trunks when they get their "final" reward.

Pray tell. What is the difference between Jerry Falwell and
the "Rev." Al Sharpton and the "Rev." Jesse Jackson? Bigotry
swings both ways.

Sad as it is, Falwell`s ill reputation precedes him around the world.

Being completely honest, though, I know of him because of keeping tabs on news about education, and he was referenced well and wide by proponents of Intelligent Design. But that`s the whole other can of worms.

Frankly, I`ve been worried lately. I'm used to hearing that the source of religious controversy is the Middle East -- as most of other people usually assume. But to realise that controversy is most abundant in what was supposed to be world`s superpower... Now that gives one a need to pause and think.

What astonishes me overwhelmingly, though, is the issue of religious hatred against your OWN nation. Falwell blaming USA for 9/11 is bad enough, but it could be understood as an underhanded PR trick.

But what about Phelps picketing Falwell`s funeral? Isn't that just inane? They were preaching the same message after all.

At times like this... I`m glad I was born in USSR. Despite all the political hijinks and revolts. I can understand fighting for who gets my tax money... But fighting over who gets to censor my mind?

If there really is a God, he probably hates a fair chunk of America right now -- for reasons entirely imaginable (Like, being the most problematic region spiritually-wise ^_^).

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Amazing that even people in the former Soviet Union know who Falwell was (and still despise him). Alice refers to Phelps; that would be Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, who likes to picket funerals of (say) fallen soldiers because the military tacitly accepts gays in its ranks. He has announced they will picket Falwell's funeral because Falwell, who was also very anti-gay, didn't scream at some people if it didn't suit him. Phelps and Falwell are indeed cut out of the same cloth -- yet it's revealing that one hates the other. -rc

Jerry Falwell killed the Republican Party. No longer a bastion of individual rights, fiscal and personal responsibility, the GOP became a group of finger-pointing, shrieking, vicious emotional rhetoric-preaching cowards, more interested in who went to church on Sunday than in who believed in fiscal responsibility in political office. They smeared and libeled everyone who was not a member of their insular group, and made Jesus a hate-word.

Indeed, I say good riddance to Falwell. He did, however, provide us with a few memorable moments, i.e. the Tinky Winky affair. How could you not laugh at this man, whether in amusement or in disgust. If I believed that a place such as Hell existed, I would be reassured that he's there this very minute, schmoozing with the Devil himself.