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May 15, 2007

Jerry Falwell and the nasty children

I knew as soon as I got my CNN Breaking News email at work about the Rev. Jerry Falwell's death that schadenfreude would dance like sugar plum fairies on crack throughout the Left blogsphere.

Good.friggin'.lord !!

And this from people whose collective condemnation of Saddam Hussein amounted to something akin to shrugged shoulders and "well, of course he wasn't a good man but ... "

I have little personal opinion on the late Falwell. He certainly had an up-by-his bootstraps personal history, but in true Peter's Principle fashion, success found him afflicted by bouts of foot-in-mouth disease as he moved in public political circles. I found myself pretty indifferent to his ramblings and vaguely annoyed at gaffes, because the attention he got was way out of proportion to his assumed political influence.

He was, in the last decade or so, a boogeyman of Leftist creation.

In looking over the indecent remarks it is easy to see why the Left cult children desperately needed a Falwell. All the rabid intolerance, bigotry, cliquishness, fundamentalism that runs through the Left could be projected onto him.

Falwell was their sin-eater.

If Falwell wasn't around, the Left would have had to invent him, so they can try and get the government to legally shut him up (and anyone else they don't agree with).

I could almost pity the unserious Left cultists, but disgust at their petty, peevish behavior is pretty much dominant.

Falwell was a flawed, but not evil, man. May he rest in peace.

And may the children someday seek maturity and wisdom.

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Posted by Darleen at May 15, 2007 09:32 PM

Comments

That's odd. I thought you disliked anti-semitism. I guess only when liberals do it.

Posted by: Josh at May 17, 2007 06:45 PM

I don't like bigotry of any kind, Josh.

And I make assessments on behavior.

Would a unrecovered, unrepetent anti-Semite reach out to Jews (as well as Catholics and atheists) for better understanding of what they all had in common rather than what separated them?

Posted by: Darleen at May 17, 2007 10:40 PM

Falwell was an anti-Semite? He must be the first pro-Israel anti-Semite on record.

There's plenty to complain about Falwell on, Josh. Perhaps you should find something that's actually true.

Posted by: Pablo at May 20, 2007 12:03 PM


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Posted by: Nina at May 20, 2007 04:31 PM

There's more to being pro-Jewish than support for Israel, especially when the basis for that support is the notion that Israel's existence is necessary for the Second Coming, at which point the Jews will be thrown into the lake of fire. I hope that clears up your ignorance.

Anti-semitic quotes from Falwell that Darleen minimizes as "gaffes" and Pablo is unaware of:

"The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior."

August 1980: After Southern Baptist Convention President Bailey Smith tells a Dallas Religious Right gathering that “God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew,” Falwell gives a similar view. “I do not believe,” he told reporters, “that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew.”

Falwell told a pastors’ conference in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist prophesied in the Bible is alive today and “of course he’ll be Jewish.”

Posted by: Josh at May 22, 2007 12:08 PM

In August of 1980 I thought that Ronald Reagan would destroy this country, and that Jimmy Carter was a good President.

26 years later, I stand corrected. Gee, you don't suppose anyone else could have changed their minds in that time, do you?

If the Savior was Jewish, why wouldn't the anti-Savior be as well?

If you don't like Falwell, fine. Don't expect others who don't feel the same way you do to bend to your powers of persuasion, such as they are.

Posted by: Chris at May 23, 2007 08:37 AM

If the Savior was Jewish, why wouldn't the anti-Savior be as well?

Exactly. Falwell was saying that the Antichrist was a counterfeit Christ, and of course, that would make him also a Jew.

The rest of what Josh quotes is boilerplate Evangelical. If you're not saved, you ain't gwine up to Hebbin! Nothing anti-semitic about that, which is why he also mentioned "unredeemed gentiles". Like it or don't, it's textbook evangelical dogma. "There is only one way to salvation and that is to accept Christ as your personal savior." Really standard stuff.

But if you want to run with an anti-semitic Zionist cartoon, Josh, you go right ahead. Silly is as silly does.

Posted by: Pablo at May 28, 2007 07:01 PM

Arguing that evangelical Protestantism is rife with anti-semitism is an strange way to defend Falwell.

Posted by: Josh at May 29, 2007 03:27 PM

I'm not interested in defending Falwell, and I have no plans to miss him. And at no point did I suggest that anyone or anything is rife with anti-semitism.

It's just about the facts, Josh. And I know you're allergic, so, whatever....

Posted by: Pablo at June 1, 2007 07:52 PM