>>>>From BBC: " Leading US conservative evangelist Rev Jerry Falwell has died in hospital in Virginia after being found unconscious in his office, his assistants said. "
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6659457.stm>>>
>>>He was a good man. Of course I know the lefties didn't like him, even though Larry Flint (deep throat) said he became good friends with him after they met. That says a lot about both men, when a they can befriend a person who has a diametric position, and there is so much vitriol.
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>>You're right. God really did allow the towers to be hit because of gays, civil rights, and abortion, and the teletubbies really are gay.
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>>The man was a bit too wacko for my liking.
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>>You never heard Billy Graham splutter crap and hate like that.
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>I don't think he had any hatred for those he spoke about. He spoke about his interpretation of what the Bible says about these issues, at least that was my take on what he said.
If we're talking about Fallwell (I'm never sure any more), I disagree. What person in his right mind honestly interprets the bible to mean that God wanted the towers hit and thousands to die because of gays, civil rights and abortion. Civil rights for Pete's sake???? God is against civil rights?
Sorry, I stand by what I said. The man had a lot of hate in him.
There is a wonderful statement by Andy Tobias:
Falwell and Robertson have convinced themselves that when a hurricane hit Virginia Beach (Robertson's neck of the woods), there's no meaning to it, and that when a hurricane fails to hit Orlando as predicted in retribution for Disney's equal rights policies for gays, there's no meaning to it, and that when AIDS devastates the (straight) population of Africa, or 6 million innocent Jews and 3 million innocent Cambodians are exterminated, God merely works in mysterious ways. But when religious fanatics crash planes into the World Trade Center because they believe it will take them to a special place in heaven, this is not caused by a fanatic religious certitude greater in degree but not entirely dissimilar from their own. Rather they conclude that it is caused, at least in part, because people like me have made God mad. (Tobias is gay).
