>I only wonder what you mean by spreading hate. Are you saying that because Falwell believed that the 9/11 attack was a punishment of God, that was spreading hate?

PMFJI, but he did not say it was a "punishment of God". He said:

"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.'"

No punishment of/from God there. Just a hateful comment on people he disliked. Never mind that it was a terrorist act commited by islamic fundamentalits. He knew it and knew what he was saying.




>Again, I am not defending any wrong actions (or beliefs) on Falwell's part. I am only saying that his pronouncements were in line with his (and many Christian's) belief system. It seems to me that his pronouncement was more of a "See I told ya it was going to happen, but you wouldn't listen."

Not as long as you do not equate hate or hateful speech with the Christian belief system. It was just his form of pandering to his base, by spreading hateful comments no matter which groups he hurt by saying so (just as how two decades earlier he spoke hateful words on segregation).



>Many Christians do believe that God is (was) angry with the immorality in America (especially since America has had the benefit of the gospel since its inception). This notion is in line with normal Christian belief. And quite often throughout the Bible, God used ungodly nations to punish immorallity (read about the
>conquests of the Babyaonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, for example).
>
>Jeremiah 25:9
>Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
>Jeremiah 25:8-10
>
>Ezekiel 26:7
>“For thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with many people.


Are you saying that your Christian all powerful God used terrorists killing thousand of innocent victims to punish them for the perceived un-christian acts of immorality? Wouldn't a plague or killing the first-borns of the immoral people be better? Or isn't it more sensible to conclude that a bunch of crazy fundamentalist muslims commited a heinous act of terrorism and murder, that had nothing to do with what Falwell, a Christian God, or you though about it?