Jerry Falwell is dead.
May. 15th, 2007 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeyourstars8And I type that title with dry eyes.
It is weird, though. He was the first example I had of the Religious Right, what with reading Bloom County cartoons and Harlan Ellison essays about the Moral Majority as a kid. So it's strange to know that he's gone.
But this is the guy who blamed 9/11 on pagans, homosexuals, and feminists, so it's not exactly a bad kind of strange. My sympathies to his family, but I can't work up any for him.
It is weird, though. He was the first example I had of the Religious Right, what with reading Bloom County cartoons and Harlan Ellison essays about the Moral Majority as a kid. So it's strange to know that he's gone.
But this is the guy who blamed 9/11 on pagans, homosexuals, and feminists, so it's not exactly a bad kind of strange. My sympathies to his family, but I can't work up any for him.
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Date: 2007-05-15 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-15 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-15 07:17 pm (UTC)Yeah, I can't be sorry he's gone.
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Date: 2007-05-15 10:10 pm (UTC)And yeah, I've seen several people say variations of, "May he soon be treated with the same compassion he showed to others" which, knowing him, is just ow.
Me being sadistic, I kinda like that.
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Date: 2007-05-16 05:26 am (UTC)I think what is wrong is speaking falsely of the dead.
And saying anything nice about Falwell would be lying, so...