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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 05/15/2007 : 10:07:19
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According to various news sites, Jerry Falwell was found unconscious in his office and is in serious condition.
Perhaps God is telling him something?
(I see that BPS is on top of things...)
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Edited by - Cuneiformist on 05/15/2007 10:08:18
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 10:43:27 [Permalink]
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He has died...
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/15/2007 : 10:52:59 [Permalink]
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18679412/?GT1=9155
I'm not turning my TV on for atleast a week. Not sure my bloodpressure can tolerate the sure to follow revisionists all claiming that this asshole was a great person.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 10:57:32 [Permalink]
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| While I'm never happy at the death of a human being, I can say with the highest confidence that I will not miss him or the vile stupidity that spewed forth from his gaping pie hole (at I believe a great many pies were stuffed in that hole! Isn't gluttony one of the Big Seven?) |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 11:11:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
According to various news sites, Jerry Falwell was found unconscious in his office and is in serious condition.
Perhaps God is telling him something?
(I see that BPS is on top of things...)
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Or perhaps Satan is now explaining the house rules.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/15/2007 : 11:33:11 [Permalink]
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Well, he wasn't gettin' no younger; about past due I'd think. The question now is: who will take his place? Will it be a sane churchy, or some brain-damaged dingbat with illusions of moral godhead?
S'long Jerry. You gave me a vast amount of amusment as well as fits of apoplexy, and that's as good a eulogy as 'most anyone could ask for.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 11:58:38 [Permalink]
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Maybe he finally choked on his own words.
While I am not generally a mean spirited guy, I can't see how the world, or at least the U.S. is not better off without his stupid and often hateful proclamations.
Falwell's comment on about 9/11:
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. |
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| I do question the sincerity of people like the Reverend Martin Luther King... |
| I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell
| The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. |
| If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. |
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/jerry_falwell/
A boil on the ass of humanity has been lanced… Good riddance!
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Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 13:15:14 [Permalink]
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AmericaBlog's take on it.
There is little point in enumerating Falwell's foibles; there are just too many of them. Often it looked like every time he'd open his mouth, he'd put his foot in it -- just after he'd stepped in something.
It would be wonderful to be able to say that his corpulent cadaver signals the passing of an era, a dinosaur shuffling off into the realms of nothing, but alas, that's not true. There are a multitude of his spiritual spawn, many worse than he, waiting to take over his legacy. It's going to be interesting to watch his would-be successors cutting each other's dewlapped throats to assume the mantle of High Sacred Blatherskite.
Liar and thief, and bigot extraordinaire, he won't be missed beyond fulsome verbiage extruded from various fundamentalist pulpits across the land.
Sun Mung Moon might miss him; if my information is correct, Jerry still owes him money. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 13:57:13 [Permalink]
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Right now, I can think of few people more deserving of swift departure...
Good Riddance!
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Ok, a few, but that'd be off topic.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 16:24:19 [Permalink]
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He stated once that God would remove His protection from those who defy Him. Well, there you are.
If I were pressed to say something nice about him, it would only be:
"He wasn't as bad as Pol Pot."
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2007 : 12:40:27 [Permalink]
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This is what I mean when I say I like Hitchens:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/hitchens_on_falwell.php
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2007 : 12:54:12 [Permalink]
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A Requiem for The Detestable(title mine)
Dead Falwell:
Jerry Falwell was a poison, a jowly backwoods cretin who used his abilities to calmly, smilingly spin entire worlds of nutzoid damnation and spew them into the airwaves to build the illusion of an empire, all fake gossamer and cash. For the better part of four decades, his gluttonous, bovine visage befouled our television screens, slavering ratings whores of the news networks ready to lift his gargantuan belly, resting it on their heads, to fellate him for all the good quotes he could weave from cultishly mad religious fervor, always smiling, that smug fuckin' smile of self-righteousness, of acting so God-stoned that he couldn't wipe Christ's blood out of his eyes. No wonder he was a man who looked like he enjoyed his pork rinds - he always had the Jesus-spliff munchies.
You could populate entire vital nations with the people he despised and wanted to cast into pits of despair if they didn't accept his Son of God, a pissy little deity who, like an overly inbred emperor, demands unquestioning loyalty and obeisance. To give yourself to Falwell's God was to announce to the world that all questions from "Why is there war?" to "Why does Grandpa have bleeding hemorrhoids?" could be answered with God's name and will invoked. What an amazingly ignorant way to exist. And all you needed to join in was to give your hard-earned money to him. "If we don't tithe, we rob God," Falwell told his stupid flock. Give part of your Social Security check to the man, not the God, but the man, Falwell, who would, he assured you, do God's will with it. And how did you know God's will would be done? Because Falwell assured you it would be. Because, oh, sweet bliss of tautologies, Falwell knew. How did you know Falwell knew? Because he told you so. No wonder George W. Bush is president. |
Can anyone say it better?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2007 : 13:13:37 [Permalink]
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The Rude One is always worth reading.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2007 : 00:23:18 [Permalink]
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Here is an article by Hitchens, about the dearly departed rev.
http://www.slate.com/id/2166337/fr/flyout
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2007 : 03:21:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Right now, I can think of few people more deserving of swift departure...
Good Riddance!
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Ok, a few, but that'd be off topic. |
Can we hope that Fred Phelps is next on the list? |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 05/17/2007 : 05:05:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Can we hope that Fred Phelps is next on the list? |
Can you imagine how many people would protest at his funeral? Complete with "God Hates Phelps" signs, I'm sure. |
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Falwell in serious condition
