Christopher Hitchens on the Death of Jerry Falwell

Christopher Hitchens appears on Anderson Cooper 360 to discuss the "Legacy" of Jerry Falwell
swampgirlsays...

He doesn't understand something basic about fundamentals.

Jerry Falwell wasn't putting on when he said what he did about 9-11. The man truly believed that God was punishing America for...you name it, anything. Anything that defies (according to fundie evangelicals) what God is thinking we should be doing with ourselves will incur divine wrath.



Farhad2000says...

Jerry Falwell, in his own words...

"The Bible is the inerrant... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc."

"There is no separation of church and state. Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution."

"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."

"You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops and I am for the President — chase them all over the world, if it takes ten years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord."

"Since Jesus came to the earth the first time 2,000 years ago as a Jewish male, many evangelicals believe the Antichrist will, by necessity, be a Jewish male. This belief is 2,000 years old and has no anti-Semitic roots. This is simply historic and prophetic orthodox Christian doctrine that many theologians, Christian and non-Christian, have understood for two millennia"

"Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers."

"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."

"The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this."
On responses to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

xxovercastxxsays...

Falwell was a spectacular piece of human trash. I'm all for respecting the dead, but I'll gladly make an exception for someone who respected no one in life. It's good to hear some honest statements instead of politically-correct rhetoric.

Memoraresays...

swampgirl's got it right, the Falwells (Moral Majority) and Pat Robertsons (700 Club) and James Dobsons (Focus on the Family) of the world are so dangerous precisely because they ARE True Believers in the armageddon vision that they preach.

choggiesays...

Raise up a child in the way (you, mom and dad, your baggage)they should go, and they will not depart from you-

Christians take this as a commission, instead it is a dire warning......teach a child how to gather information and draw conclusions properly, and they can believe what they want....heaven awaits.....

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