AP: Jerry Falwell has died.

We'll agree to disagree. Not a personal favorite of mine with some of his views, yet at the same time I don't believe rejoicing over his death or drudging up the inflammatory rhetoric will bring about anything positive.

 

RIP. Have quite a few Liberty-schooled friends and they worship(ped) the guy.

 

I hope the journalists who write his obit include it all.

No one, with the exception of Sportsbruh, is rejoicing.

I think the man was terribly flawed. Doesn't mean I'm happy he's dead.

 

There's something to be said about a man who draws a line in the sand and holds to his convictions when the desert is moving the opposite way.

 

One anti-semite spreading intolerance and hate down. 2,999,999,999 to go.

 

Aside from sportsburp, I don't see anyone here 'rejoicing.'

But to many, the 'inflammatory rhetoric' is his legacy....AIDS as God's punishment for homosexuality....9/11 as God's punishment for a sinful culture....beware of the purple Teletubby lest it coerce your child to a life of homosexuality.

For all the 'good' he may have done for a certain sector of the population, he was also a fountain of intolerance and prejudice.

 

I don't have feelings one way or the other -- everyone obviously has to go sometime -- but at least now he knows a) if God exists, and b) if He does, what He thinks about Falwell's version of Christianity.

 

I'm pretty sure the apartheid connection and the 9/11 and Jewish antichrist comments will make their way into a regulation-sized obit.

 

Correction!!!!

No one with the EXCEPTION of Sportsbruh got the timidity to voice his true disposition.

 

That's fair... I was speaking more in generalities.

Everyone knows his legacy, 21. Do we need to rehash the (IMO) stupid, insensitive, invective things he said? He was a polarizing figure, and a person's thoughts on his life probably won't be affected by rehashing the comment resume.