Personally, the people who have a problem are those who AREN'T happy he's dead.
He was a poisonous blight on our society. I wish he had died sooner, for the sake of us all.
Indeed, he's to blame, perhaps more than anyone, for putting this country on the road to ruin.
I feel for the good people who miss him. I feel confused, that is. I don't know how a good person could miss him.
I've said such things before, and I'm not going to change it nowthat he's dead.
Other than to put it in the past tense.
I don't know that Falwell's death is anything to be happy about. I have to say that my heart did jump a little when I found out but I realized that the real failure is that a man lived for
his entire life in ignorance and bigotry and died without ever displaying an ounce of rational repentence or humanity. I AM glad that he can no longer influence people but any comfort in that thought is only lost when you realize how many people he probably left behind to take his place, maybe not on the national level but at the very least to "stir the pot" amongst the culture of hate and bigotry he worked so hard to build. What good is it then for a man to die and leave such a legacy? There is no joy in such a death. It would have been just as good had he been marooned on an island somewhere and never heard of again. At the very least in that scenario he would not be a marty, an exclamation point upon a lifetime spreading disease to the ignorant.
People like Falwell make it all to painfully obvious that the battle front for our humanity is not being won in classrooms, courtrooms, the halls of science and academia. These are all just manifestations of the much more bitter and important struggle to define our culture amongst so many discordant ideas and values. What good does it do to secure all of the legal or contractual provisions that will protect our freedoms and values if all the people in our nation CHOOSE to live in ignorance and CHOOSE to throw their freedoms to the wind for the promises of these false prophets of religion.
Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)
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