SubscribeExactly what did they mean by "heart challenges" ?It was cold and black.
That's rallying support for attacks and war, by the way.
DieHipsterDie: Vaya con dios fuckwad!Dammit, why ya gotta make every thread about Dios?
Court dismisses Falwell domain name case.
High court skips Falwell Web site case.
Falwell parody site preaches free speech.
"NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 15, 2007, as Peace Officers' Memorial Day and May 13 through May 19, 2007, as Police Week. I call on all Americans to observe these events with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also call on Governors of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as well as appropriate officials of all units of government, to direct that the flag be flown at half staff on Peace Officers' Memorial Day. I further encourage all Americans to display the flag at half staff from their homes and businesses on that day."
I was a bit taken aback by all the extreme vitriol on here, but then I realized that when you put so much hate and anger and intolerance out into the world, that that's what you're going to get back.In the words of the Beatles, "And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
“Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions”
“If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being”
“Textbooks are Soviet propaganda”
There were times that Dad's pranks bordered on cruelty. One of his oil company workers, a one-legged man he nicknamed "Crip" Smith, complained about everything. Dad and Crip's co-workers got tired of the old man's bellyaching and decided to take revenge. One morning Crip called in sick and Dad volunteered to send by lunch to his grateful but suspicious employee. Dad and his chums caught Crip's old black tomcat, killed it, skinned it, and cooked it in the kitchen of one of Dad's little restaurants. They called it squirrel meat and delivered it to Crip on a linen-covered tray. When Crip returned to work the next morning, Dad and his co-conspirators asked him how he liked his meal. They knew he would complain even about a free home-cooked lunch, and when Crip called it "the toughest squirrel meat" he had ever eaten, they were glad to tell him why.Of course, that's what Jesus would do, too.
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.Why have sympathy for what he said ? He's using 9/11 facts against groups he dislikes, making the most absurd claim that the same god that is all right and pious sent a punishment to kill everybody in the building, even if it is obvious not everybody there was libertatian, homosexual or an abortion supporter. And clearly someone believed he was saying "the truth" . Yeah right, he also speaked with the dead. Ohhh lookie, a miracle !
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
THOUGHT THE TELETUBBIES
WERE GAY PROPAGANDA
"WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone'. There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable.Even the haters hate the haters.1. Falwell was a true Calvinistic Baptist when he was a young preacher in Springfield, Missouri, and sold his soul to Free-Willism (Arminianism) for lucre.
2. Falwell bitterly and viciously attacked WBC because of WBC's faithful Bible preaching -- thereby committing the unpardonable sin -- otherwise known as the sin against the Holy Ghost.
3. Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre -- making him guilty of their sins."
The Southern Baptist Convention, Falwell's denomination, was officially pro-choice throughout the 1970s; anti-abortion activism was seen as the province of Catholics, a group then widely despised by fundamentalist Protestants.I think you're underestimating the galvanizing force of evangelical pop-philosophers like Francis Schaeffer. Quite a few of the hardcore conservative Christians I've talked to recall the 'Hey, people, abortion is legal, that's wrong!' wake-up calls from that era as eye openers, stirring them out of a cultural and political lethargy.
But weren't Southern Baptists ok with Carter? He was very publicly pro-choice.Yeah, but that's before the abortion issue really existed in the 'Evangelical Mind' in this country. As you said, it was a Catholic issue for the vast majority of Protestants until a relatively small core of Evangelicals hit the pavement and started 'evangelizing' within the Christian community to cast abortion as the defining issue of the modern age.
We fully recognize the religious and ethical nature of the concerns which many Americans have on the subject of abortion.Compare it to 2004:
Because we believe in the privacy and equality of women, we stand proudly for a woman's right to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, and regardless of her ability to pay.... At the same time, we strongly support family planning and adoption incentives. Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.For the heck of it, here is the only reference to abortion I could find in the '76 GOP platform:
Because of our concern for family values, we affirm our beliefs, stated elsewhere in this Platform, in many elements that will make our country a more hospitable environment for family life -- neighborhood schools; educational systems that include and are responsive to parents' concerns; estate tax changes to establish more realistic exemptions which will minimize disruption of already bereaved families; a position on abortion that values human life; a welfare policy to encourage rather than discourage families to stay together and seek economic independence; a tax system that assists rather than penalizes families with elderly members, children in day care or children in college; economic and employment policies that stop the shrinkage of our dollars and stimulate the creation of jobs so that families can plan for their economic security.I know the anti-gay stuff was a big deal by the mid-70s with Bryant and Falwell, and anti-feminist stuff even before then with Schafly and those people, but i don't remember hearing much pro-life stuff til the 80 election season. I guess it was still "in the family" so to speak and not in the media yet?
"To the Bush haters of America, the young Monica Goodling is a footnote of this wretched era, one of the many Washington types that they'll be happy to get rid of come January 2009: Venal Vice President, Ex-Lobbyists Turned Regulators and, in Goodling's case, Young Evangelicals in High Places.
...Goodling is part of a new generation of evangelicals ushered in by Falwell, who insisted that Christians get involved in politics. They are graduates of the exploding number of evangelical colleges, which no longer aim to create a parallel subculture but instead to train 'Christian leaders to change the world,' as the Regent mission statement reads.
It used to be that being 33 and in charge of 93 U.S. attorneys would mean you'd been top of your class at Harvard or Yale or clerked at the Supreme Court. Now, Christian schools are joining that mix. Regent has had 150 of its graduates working in the White House; the school estimates that one-sixth of its alumni are in government work. Call them the Goodlings: scrubbed young ideologues, ready to serve their nation, the right's version of the Peace Corps generation."
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Fuck Jerry Falwell.
posted by wfrgms at 10:46 AM on May 15, 2007 [23 favorites]