Jerry Falwell called home
Here is my take on Jerry Falwell:
He was a con man who tricked poor, elderly and diseased people into sending him money because of his supposed direct pipeline to God.
Journalist Chris Hitchens said it so much better than I .. of course, he's been out on the talk-show circuit pushing his new book ..
Anyway, he enjoys a little dust-up. So how very convenient that the Lord picked this time to call Jerry home .. Chris gets lots more ink and airtime if he savages a dead man.
Just look at what he said on on CNN:
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, AUTHOR, "GOD IS NOT GREAT": The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you'll just get yourself called "Reverend". Who would even at your network have invited on such a little toad to tell us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness and were god's punishment if they hadn't gotten some kind of clerical qualification?
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, AUTHOR, "GOD IS NOT GREAT": The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you'll just get yourself called "Reverend". Who would even at your network have invited on such a little toad to tell us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness and were god's punishment if they hadn't gotten some kind of clerical qualification?
People like that should be out in the street shouting in horror with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup. The whole consideration of this horrible little person is offensive to very, very many of us who have some regard for truth and for morality, and who think that ethics do not require that lies be told to children."
We have to have Falwell quotes too:
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.
-- Jerry Falwell, on CNN's Crossfire, May 17, 1997
-- Jerry Falwell, on CNN's Crossfire, May 17, 1997
I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979 pp. 52-53, from Albert J Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979 pp. 52-53, from Albert J Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time -- calling upon God.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, justifying the breech of Constitutional Separation of Religion from Government while blaming civil libertarians for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev Pat Robertson again agreed, quoted from AANEWS #958 by American Atheists (September 14, 2001)
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, justifying the breech of Constitutional Separation of Religion from Government while blaming civil libertarians for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev Pat Robertson again agreed, quoted from AANEWS #958 by American Atheists (September 14, 2001)
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev Pat Robertson agreed, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev Pat Robertson agreed, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
And this latest one:
Jerry's last words (to the EMS medical technicians)....
"Bill Clinton killed Vince Foster"
