Comments on: Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007 http://www.bloggernews.net/16799 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:31:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Watercloset http://www.bloggernews.net/16799#comment-25245 Watercloset Wed, 16 May 2007 15:52:07 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16799#comment-25245 Having seen death enough times in my life I would never wish it on anyone but I read of falwell's passing with a certain relief. Another voice of the tyranny of the vicious has gone. While Jerry Falwell may have gone with his convictions, he succeeded through that usual tone of propaganda, in his case from the pulpit, with clever phrases preying upon people's confusions, fears, and whatnot, combined with a first-rate business sense of his own enrichment, and foisted upon what is left of this nation a movement that has been a continuous embarrassement and has done probably irrepairable harm to this country's social fabric that was, at last, rejected on November when the majority of American voters turned on these moral and religious fascists. I saw his moral majority in action a couple times and it was enough to turn the stomach. Still, I would have liked to have met him off the pulpit. As a die-hard democrat and socialist we would have had a hearty round or two of it, especially about the times today. It is us demos that, so far, have understood that the war on terrorism, for instance, is a borderless war and not one against nation-states, and understand, as our founding fathers did, that any religion forced on you is just another name for tyranny. Falwell never understood this. But then, he got rich off of it. Having seen death enough times in my life I would never wish it on anyone but I read of falwell’s passing with a certain relief. Another voice of the tyranny of the vicious has gone. While Jerry Falwell may have gone with his convictions, he succeeded through that usual tone of propaganda, in his case from the pulpit, with clever phrases preying upon people’s confusions, fears, and whatnot, combined with a first-rate business sense of his own enrichment, and foisted upon what is left of this nation a movement that has been a continuous embarrassement and has done probably irrepairable harm to this country’s social fabric that was, at last, rejected on November when the majority of American voters turned on these moral and religious fascists. I saw his moral majority in action a couple times and it was enough to turn the stomach.

Still, I would have liked to have met him off the pulpit. As a die-hard democrat and socialist we would have had a hearty round or two of it, especially about the times today. It is us demos that, so far, have understood that the war on terrorism, for instance, is a borderless war and not one against nation-states, and understand, as our founding fathers did, that any religion forced on you is just another name for tyranny. Falwell never understood this. But then, he got rich off of it.

]]> By: R.A.Seaman http://www.bloggernews.net/16799#comment-25164 R.A.Seaman Wed, 16 May 2007 12:03:19 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/16799#comment-25164 he was a good man, a little over the top at times, but who isn't? he was a good man, a little over the top at times, but who isn’t?

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