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June 01, 2007
Here are a Few of My Favorite Quotes
Jerry Falwell's lifeless corpse plummets down the chute to Hell.
"In two weeks - a non-zany tribute to Jerry Falwell! You heard it here first . . ."
-- Comment on Shrubville by Annie on May 15, 2007 04:32 PM
"The whole consideration of this — 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 by evil old men, that we're — we're not told that people who believe like Falwell will be snatched up into heaven, where I'm glad to see he skipped the rapture, was found on the floor of his office, while the rest of us go to hell.
How dare they talk to children like this? How dare they raise money from credulous people on their huckster-like 'Elmer Gantry' radio stations, and fly around in private jets, as he did, giggling and sniggering all the time at what he was getting away with?"
--Christopher Hitchens re: Jerry Falwell on CNN, May 15, 2007.
"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
-- Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976
"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!"
-- Jerry Falwell, 'America Can Be Saved!' (1979) Sword of the Lord Publishers, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, p. 52-53
"And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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."
-- Jerry Falwell, Remarks to Pat Robertson after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, on The 700 Club, September 13, 2001.
"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
-- Jerry Falwell, Source Unknown
"Into every life a little inanity must fall."
-- Carmen re: Jerry Falwell's Tinky Winky fascination, Prickly City, June 1, 2007
Comments
Annie's prediction was right, but Stantis was a little slow to deliver. We know he is 2 weeks behind, so why did it take him 3 extra days for the Falwell tribute?
a) The Free Paris Hilton story line was too good to interrupt.
b) He put extra care into drawing Carmen and Winslow running and jumping and swinging from a serpant.
c) Needed yesterday to contrast that while Falwell was just "inane", Kucinich is "inSane".
d) It took 3 days to find a couple of nice things that Falwell did. Funny thing about his Elim Home for alcoholics (http://home.trbc.org/index.cfm?PID=9057), they "...require that each man coming to Elim be sober and in his right mind..."
By the way, what exactly is a "big, American life"?
Posted by: John at June 1, 2007 10:28 AM
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Posted by: The Furnace at June 1, 2007 11:49 AM
Bizarre - for some reason it won't let me comment on the terrorist attack that nearly happened at Falwell's funeral.
Posted by: The Furnace at June 1, 2007 11:51 AM
Furnace, try replacing the word "terrorist" with "Liberty student", and "attack" with "high jinx". That should get right through.
Posted by: John at June 1, 2007 01:50 PM
I don't think the system would allow me to refer to a guy with bombs in his car that wanted to blow up protestors as a terrorist since he was a white kid with a crewcut.
Posted by: The Furnace at June 1, 2007 02:20 PM
Oh and a Christian who wanted to bomb other Christians who didn't think Falwell was hard enough on gays.
Posted by: The Furnace at June 1, 2007 02:21 PM
Whoa - I figured it out - the system won't let me post a comment with the word homose*ual. I've never seen that before.
Posted by: The Furnace at June 1, 2007 02:22 PM
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Posted by: Secret Rapture at June 5, 2007 09:10 AM
