Oh I know what you are thinking...
How can I be so disrespectful and unsympathetic. Jerry Falwell was a human being! Think of his family! Well, okay I am sorry to his family for their loss.
But if there is a God and if there is divine justice, then I hope that hypocritical bigot; that riotous, elitist, power-hungry, dissembling bigot is on the fast track straight to hell.
Now as the eulogies roll in, all of his years of bigoted spewings will be diminished and Falwell will be respectfully, honorably categorized as simply "controversial". Because the MSM will deem it so.
Lest we forget his unapologetic hatred, his vitriolic labeling and his very UNCHRISTIAN rhetoric. If he truly believed all that crap then it should be memorialized on his gravestone. If not, then let his memory fade.
I was raised catholic. I come from a very religious family and I have been aghast at the free pass the media gave him, the platform the administration gave him, and the relevance he has maintained not because of his "beliefs" but because of his POWER. He ran in the right circles, amassed political power, influence and prestige by telling society to blame gays, be careful of Jews, supress women, actively slander and lie about the left.
He was a sick, twisted man who worked to keep people afraid, used religion and God for his own advancement and from his mighty (and paid for) pulpit had the audacity to point down from on high and exclaim that all of the world's wrongs were perpetrated by..............people with a particular political affiliation.
His ignorance and brevity did nothing to further the national dialogue because he was not about America. He was about power. He was about HIS own beliefs and actively worked to marginalize anyone who disagreed or chose to live "differently". Yeah..very American, very christian.
Funny how hate and finger-pointing made his so rich. Coincidence?
But wait; he was a good christian wasn't he?
Am I just being "controversial" too?
No. I cannot be controvertial, I am nothing more than a gay-loving, feminazi, shrill lefty kook. I am one anonymous blogger and I don't have a university, political influence or millions of dollars. I don't have a president who won't speak to the majority of Congress about serious issues like Iran but will meet with me because a large group of people hang on his every word.
How sad of a nation are we that THAT excuse for a christian, who worshipped mamman, who lied, who slandered, who judged so harshly had such respect and a voice in the national dialogue as....a man of God. He spoke to and for the very worst of our society and was greatly financially rewarded.
If divine justice does exist, then I say Jerry...Fall well!