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Kind of old news, but...
La la la la, la la la la
If you know nothing about this guy, you're in for an enraging treat. He's a gold mine of stupid.
Discuss. What are your favorite Falwell moments?
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I am an absolute ignorant on that topic. I didn't even know about his existence before reading this forum (I think Gio posted something in the "Reasons to be happy" thread).
For the non-American ones, could some of you explain his ideology? Was he a Christian, maybe a fanatical one? (my sister says he was a member of the Evangelist Church, but she's not sure about anything else.)
I suspect he could be included in the "Top Ten Minds of America" along with mr. Bush (no offence intended Don't like him, but he's not my president and I could be biased) and as usual had a problem separating religion and State.
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Jerry Falwell was an evangelist that was, if not single-handedly responsible for the religious polarization of the right in this country, instrumental. God hates fags and women, that bullshit. I could say more, but here, have a few quotes.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
But these things speak evil of those things, verse 10 [reading from Jude] which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself.
AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters.
I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
On 9/11 wrote:
And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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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Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps and Pat Robertson were a sort of unholy trinity of hate. One down, two to go...
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Giovanna wrote:
I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
On 9/11 wrote:
And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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."
Ok, that guy ideas oficially scare me now I'm glad he is dead now...
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I'm actually kind of disappointed that he's dead...
I wanted to kill him myself.
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Strange the first thing that came to my mind when I heard the news was "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead."
I'm really sad to see someone die . . . But in a really sad way, I am kind of happy that he has passed. I do not in any way like stopping to their level of degrading another human for their beliefs or true nature.
On a similar but different note, I was recently watching a History Channel special on the Anti Christ. Towards the end someone was going on about how the bible explains the battle between Christ and his Anti-Self will take place. Blah- da- Blah! Anyways, in the end they said the bible clearly states Christ will overcome the Anti-Christ. And everyone lives happily ever after.
~The End~
Now if I was the Anti-Christ and I was well rounded on Christianity, and read said passage from the Bible. I would not even bother complete conquest on the destruction of everything. I壇 just take up knitting or something and go about my daily life. Of course that might just throw off the balance of the universe and we might all go spinning into oblivion.
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Razara wrote:
I'm actually kind of disappointed that he's dead...
I wanted to kill him myself.
I'm sure your life serves a higher purpose than to kill some ignorant bigot.
Speaking of the unholy trinity, I find Fred Phelps to be the most frightening of the three... he's got his whole family backing him up with the whole, "Dying time is true time" thing... How can anyone be happy for massacre?
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Fred Phelps, why do I keep associating his name with the Olympic swimmer? Dear god, I hope my dear Michael Phelps blood line is not tainted with such . . .
*holds breath in fear*
Ugly . . . !
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I've never hated anyone more than I hate Fred Phelps [or, as we Streifte Geist fans say, Drop Dead Fred.]. But, the death of Falwell has brought glee enough for one day. Hell, it's going to bring me glee for a lifetime.
The one thing I hated though, was that all the celebs they interviewed said nice things about him. "He lived a great life" and "He always sparked conversation" and all that.
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Razara wrote:
I'm actually kind of disappointed that he's dead...
I wanted to kill him myself.
..can I hug you?
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The thing that scares me about people like JF is that he can get such a huge level of support for his stupid ideas. In any civilised society his career wouldn't get any further than standing in the park ranting at embarassed passers-by, but he managed to build a huge empire and change the face of American politics. The Moral Majority may not be moral, but sadly they are indeed the majority.
Even here in liberal Vancouver I get creeped out thinking about how many people around me actively support this kind of garbage. It's the same sort of feeling evoked by all those allegorical zombie movies. Night Of The Living Conservatives !
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They do not call them a Flock of Sheep for nothing you know.
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Goodie! A Something Awful slam!
Yeah, I know, but it's like... the only other site I ever visit anymore.
Edit:
"God is real and tangible. His strength resides within me." - To a symposium on Christianity after tearing a 900lb steel beam in half. (1987)
"When we pray, God listens. If God wills it then it is so. Connect the two and you will realize that anything is possible." - To a class of third graders as he hovered in midair and made clocks turn backwards. (1991)
"No door or window is barred to the Lord." - Final comment at a press conference, followed immediately by Falwell phasing through a concrete wall. (1992)
Fantastic.
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That is so wrong, but I cannot stop laughing.
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Yasha wrote:
Goodie! A Something Awful slam!
"The Jew is the stealthiest of races. There is no community he cannot infiltrate. Did you know just yesterday I saw a Jew break dancing? They are an amazing people." - At the Moral Majority's Jew of the Year gala during which Richard Lewis won for the second year in a row. (1995)
It's sad we will no longer get new tidbits of hysterical like this.
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Yasha wrote:
Goodie! A Something Awful slam!
"God has given each race of mankind a unique gift. The Asians are wise and magical, the white man commands machines, and the black has been given a surplus of bones allowing him to perform feats unmatched in athleticism." - Final comments at an NAACP fundraiser dinner. (1988)
Is this stuff actually true?
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Sevelle wrote:
Yasha wrote:
Goodie! A Something Awful slam!
"God has given each race of mankind a unique gift. The Asians are wise and magical, the white man commands machines, and the black has been given a surplus of bones allowing him to perform feats unmatched in athleticism." - Final comments at an NAACP fundraiser dinner. (1988)
Is this stuff actually true?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, absolutely not, no way in hell But the fact that you have to ask proves how outrageous this guy actually is.
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Well I know Farwell. He's a Virginian. I'm a Virginian. And he is CRAZY!!!
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OH MY GOD
ALERT ALERT HOLY SHIT THIS MAY JUST BE THE FUNNIEST FUNDIE THING I HAVE EVER SEEN OH MY GOD
CANNOT BREATHE
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And the sad thing is, that is probably real.
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Oh, it's real.
Westboro Baptist Church, headed by Fred Phelps.
By the way, in case you miss the URL, it's 'godhatesfags.com'. I believe 'godhatesamerica.com' also belongs to them.
Edit: oh god, there are more
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But Fag's are God's chosen people! Obviously that is why we have the best sex, nicest jobs, and turn slums into pricy properties.
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Sevelle wrote:
But Fag's are God's chosen people! Obviously that is why we have the best sex, nicest jobs, and turn slums into pricy properties.
Well, we know that, baby, but apparently these people have some kind of other idea. Also, we all eat babies, apparently. I thought it was just me?
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I wonder what the world would be like if there were no Fag's?
*Ponders of a Silent Hillesque type world*
AHHH! It's too scary!!!
EDIT: Nah, Silent Hill . . . More like Barney and Friends.
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