Fruit Brute
Posted to Miscellany on 15 May 2007
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Which old witch? The wicked witch!
I'm not a religious man...but I like to think he's finally getting the 'reward' he so richly deserves, the miserable old cow.
not that i would wish harm to come to anyone, but now we just need pat robertson to kick the bucket... then maybe there will be rainbows and sunshine everywhere!
Fantastic headline!!
I'm a peaceful, loving person but I have to admit I smiled when I heard the news.
All I can say is Hallelujah, there is a God after all! Does anyone have a pike I can borrow for his final presentation?
He was actually my high school commencement speaker...
As tacky as feel about someone's death, it couldn't happen to a nicer person.
Wreteched hive of scum and villany.
He will not be missed.
I love the stark difference between the way he looks and the painting. Isn't gluttony a sin?
I love the fact he's sitting in front of a huge picture of himself. I guess Vanity isn't a sin.
he died after a pleasant breakfast with a friend. praise the lard!
"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'."
Yeah, such a nice thing to say, what with him showing the love Jesus can bring to others and all that.
Normally I'd shy away from celebrating the death of somebody, but this man was surely the embodyment of intolerance and bigotry.
His death, sadly, can only bring good things to the world.
Hey, I get the song reference and everything, but we witches don't want to be associated with him any more than he does with us.
Yes, Virginia, there are gay gamer witches.
Does anyone know where he'll be buried, I really have to take a wicked shit!
Don't you have to cut off its head or drive a stake through its heart to ensure it stays dead?
Seriously, Boy Blunder? What'd he say (other than the whole "future" BS people always say at graduations)?
Hm, but as for this event... it's a few decades late, I guess.
No, I feel dirty saying that about the dead, but he was the guy who actually blamed people other than, you know, the attackers, for September 11... even though he did later apologize for it. Hmm. I can't shake the feeling. I feel like those people in the Jesus cartoons with the funny nasal voices and weird faces.
I feel better about myself knowing now that I wasn't the only one who did a happy dance and went out for ice cream at news of his death.
I love this place.
Now we just wait for Fred Phelps and his disgusting family to kick the bucket and we're home free :)
It's not wise to praise the dead but hey good news anyhow
somewhere...a purple teletubbie cries a single, lonely tear.
And another will take his place.
falwell was definitely more influential than phelps (since he's mocked even by conservatives for picketing soldier's funerals with his hateful signage), but both have an insatiable desire to blame everything on the "homosexual agenda". one less person blaming us for everything bad that happens in america can only be a good thing.
Oh, and do not forget about Jack Chick. He needs to follow suit, and fast.
HA!
But, unfortunately, these guys are like the Hydra.
You cut off one of them, another two more'll spout right back up...
don't get me wrong, I despise him on every conceivable level, but is really right to mock the passing of the enemy? Not that I terribly mind the fact that he is gone, but I just feel like mocking his death makes me as bad as him.
He was still a human being, if a vile and irritating one. Cheer that he no longer weilds power in our realm (keeping in mind that there is always someone waiting in the wings of course), but don't cheer that he is dead. Karma is a bitch after all.
brandon h:
I agree. We shouldn't dance on his grave -- even though we would dance on ours. Let us never speak of him again.
err, that is to say "he" would dance on ours.
Thank you gaygamer for making my day! When I heard the news this morning at work, it took all my energy to not burst out singing this song at my desk. Thank you for singing it for me!
I agree celebrating someone's death isn't the wisest thing to do. But I doubt most people mourn the death of cancer from their body and that's exactly how I feel right now. Relieved that someone finally cut this cancer out of my life.
While it is unfortunate that a human life has passed from us, it is however slightly fortunate that his deeds will no longer be befouling the Earth... at least by his hand.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I'm guessing he preached "Death to gays" too? Irony anyone?
Okay, okay.
Shame on me but...
Who the hell is that guy?! O.o
I'm not American, maybe that's an excuse *g*
I don't want to start a war. But this post made me really upset. Am I the only one who actually knows what death is? Are you really celebrating?
I'm sorry, but I feel like I don't want to come to this site any more. And it's my favorite.
Yours,
Matt
PS I did not like the man. But may he rest in peace.
JigSaw, I have no idea either. *living in germany*
Heh, me too.
He seems to be a preacher or something.
No wonder we haven't heard of him here :P
Living in the Netherlands. I have no idea who this guy is either!
Someone please enlighten us the unenlightened foreigners of a different country.
@ quinnten83, Morothar, JigSaw and everybody else who don't know him:
Also from the Netherlands and I know who Jerry Falwell was. he's been on the news in my country a couple of times. keeping track of news sometimes helps.
*grin
but okay: he was an American fundamentalist christian pastor and a bigot. he hated gay people, among other groups who didn't fit the mold, and blamed them for things that went wrong.
can't say i celebrate his death. he was a human being. a bigoted, narrow minded, disgusting one, but nevertheless a human being like all of us.
that said, i don't mourn his death either.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by the sheer callousness of the post and comments. However, I hoped a higher road would be taken.
While I certainly did not agree with his views, I wish his family well, and hope they recover quickly their loss.
Thank you, GayGamer, for not taking the sissy way out and wringing your hands over whether it's a good idea to mock the dead. This dead guy truly deserves all the mocking he gets.
As for the hand-wringing commenters.... maybe you should go have a candlelight vigil over Hitler's grave because he was a human being too and we're all deserving of respect. Oooooh, Godwin'd!
Jerry Falwell was the talking head for the "Moral Majority", a Christian (and some would say fascist) political organization. You can find out a bit more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_majority
A highlight from the article..."censorship of media outlets that promote what it labeled as an 'anti-family' agenda". Pretty much if he didn't like something, he'd hide behind the bible, go on national television and talk about how gays are corrupting the youth of America.
@purin
I don't remember that well. I kind of snuck out of the ceremony and was making out with the cute boys from the football team out back of the sanctuary...
Perhaps we should, raindog. Because, otherwise, where's the line? Who gets to be human and who doesn't? And who makes the call?
What happens when one stops seeing those who disagree as human? When one no longer views even the most vile, vicious, evil person as a human? To me, it feels like one has become the exact thing one despises, if only in thought.
Process Falwell's passing however you wish. We're all entitled to make our own sense out of the world. To suggest, though, that it's somehow "sissy" to strive and view all people with respect, not just whatever minority we happen to be identifying with at the time, is the first step on a dangerous road.
I agree with Raindog's comment.
Everyone hated him until he died. Now people are acting like sissys because their wish came true and they don't want to feel responsible for his death.
Reality check, just because someone died doesn't make their legacy turn into a saintly one. Some people do bad things that drag down society and should not be remembered as anything other than what it is.
To the poster who commented about people not knowing about death: My father passed away when I was 14. I think I know a little something about death. I know that I don't view my father as some sort of idealized faultless individual because he wasn't. But I do realize and respect all the things he did for my life and other people.
What has Jerry Falwell and his politics done for you or your society?
There is a great distinction to be made between celebrating the death of a person and celebrating the death of a monster.
Am I glad that Falwell the person is dead? A little, and while I don't mind admitting it, I don't care overmuch. Am I glad that Falwell the monster is dead? You betcha.
And here's why:
Anyone who uses his platform as a trusted spiritual adviser to millions to say such things as "[gays] are brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven” has earned, in my single human opinion, enough enmity for me not to feel remotely "low road" about celebrating his death. When you load the minds of millions with the idea that the world would be better served by killing myself and my community, I, personally, take that a bit more seriously than simple disagreement.
I would celebrate the removal of any force that blames terrorism, hurricanes, and diseases on a group of people because of their sexuality, faith, or politics. To demonize anyone in the gay community for exulting in Falwell's death is to say, effectively, that we do not deserve to celebrate our own freedom - or at least that we should temper it with a facade of respect that we'd never have given the name "Jerry Falwell" in life.
If that's the high road, I'm glad I'm not on it.
For those who don't know much about Jerry Falwell, his conservative Christian ministries here in the US, his constant and lifelong slander, abuse and oppression of gays, women, and others, you can read about his life and read some of the horrible words he's left us with. Or you can read about the Anti-memorial in San Francisco that also celebrates the removal of his monstrosity from the cultural palette.
QuakerJono:
I say it isn't about who is human and who isn't. I say he was an evil man that did horrible awful things in the name of God. But if you want to make it human verses non -human then fine I draw the line when they do inhuman things and treat others as non-humans. He spready hatered and biggotary treating homosexuals as inhuman. I don't celebrate his death as much as I celebrate the fact that he can no longer spread hatred. I raise a glass to all those those that suffered because of him and to all those that will no longer have too.
Hope hell suits you Jerry Falwell.
Funny, that's what I said...