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Gosling
2007-05-28 12:41:32 AM  
No we won't.
 
crunch-o-matic
2007-05-28 12:52:24 AM  
He was dead to me a lonnnnng time ago.
 
DisneyOnIce
2007-05-28 1:07:57 AM  
Unlikely. There will be always be another cracker opportunist to take his place, if his unholy and lecherous crotch-spawn aren't already slavering over his remaining "legacy."
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-05-28 1:26:51 AM  
He made himself the enemy. I never looked for this particular fight. Neither did my fellow fags-in-arms.

When I came out, I didn't look for redemption, or even acceptance. I just wanted to be left the fark alone to forge my own path. I didn't attack religion (even my own -- Mormon).

This asshole came looking for me and I'll be more than happy to take a steaming corn-filled power-shiat on his grave.

The only people who will mourn Jerry's death are the ones with financial ties. Not even his maggots will mourn him.
 
Shut........UP
2007-05-28 1:33:46 AM  
People who claim to be liberal rarely are.
 
skookum
2007-05-28 2:29:32 AM  
Falwell had the courage to remind liberals that their half-baked ideas would lead them to the hell they refused to believe in.

Without him, there are few who dare to criticize the stupidity of utopian thought and its hypocrisies.
 
Kurland
2007-05-28 2:37:00 AM  
Won't miss him at all in fact I am glad a religious nutbar like him is gone. The less fundies nuts around the better the world is. This is true no matter if they are Muslum, Christian, Jewish or other religions. And the less fundie nutbars around the more sane the normal religious people will look.
 
TheChaz
2007-05-28 2:47:06 AM  
ecmoRandomNumbers: He made himself the enemy. I never looked for this particular fight. Neither did my fellow fags-in-arms.

Well said. Glad the bastard is gone. One less zit on the ass of humanity.
 
enki704276
2007-05-28 3:14:43 AM  
I personally can't see ANYONE missing Falwell, other than the extreme religious right nut jobs out there.He was a hate mongering jackass, always looking for someone to persecute.
 
Phil Moskowitz
2007-05-28 3:20:37 AM  
Why not be totally cynical instead of content that an evil force has been removed from the planet.

Team players always see other people as team players. Grow some farking character.
 
skookum
2007-05-28 3:44:07 AM  
Again, there was nothing evil about Dr. Falwell and the hypocrisy in here is almost amusing.

Falwell pretty much had it right that liberals would eventually hang themselves trying to explain their half-baked ideas to the public as to how they would work, all the while thumbing their noses to God. Congratulations. Now your greatest critic, perhaps the one that could have set you on a course back to God, is dead, and in Heaven, I might add, someplace you might be when you put down your ego and return to your duties as worshipper.
 
Irascible [OhFark]
2007-05-28 3:45:41 AM  
Not really.

I am hoping for a trifecta of Dobson and Robertson (soon please!).
 
Irascible [OhFark]
2007-05-28 3:47:54 AM  
Skookum is teh funny.
 
YoungSwedishBlonde
2007-05-28 4:10:37 AM  
There will be always be another cracker opportunist to take his place

Well as long as it isn't some damn uppity negro...
 
vegaswench
2007-05-28 4:19:49 AM  
sure libs will miss him, but next time their aim will improve because he can't move.

/oh wait, do libs own guns?
 
clifton
2007-05-28 4:24:41 AM  
Skookum is definitely funny.
 
Soul Stripper
2007-05-28 4:31:09 AM  
skookum:
Falwell had the courage to remind liberals that their half-baked ideas would lead them to the hell they refused to believe in.

Without him, there are few who dare to criticize the stupidity of utopian thought and its hypocrisies.

Far out, man...
 
mandrake
2007-05-28 4:31:22 AM  
skookum: Again, there was nothing evil about Dr. Falwell and the hypocrisy in here is almost amusing.

There was nothing evil abou... oh, it's skookum. Never mind.

vegaswench: /oh wait, do libs own guns?

Some of us.
 
skookum
2007-05-28 4:32:39 AM  
I really find nothing funny about it, Falwell will be missed because now the paradigm of critics have that much farther to go. Still, I don't want to admit this is a setback: there will emerge another leader who will make this nation even more aware just how necessary it is to get back to God.
 
clifton
2007-05-28 4:36:38 AM  
With every Falwell thread that is posted on Fark, the right certainly misses. They even tell us we should respect him because he's dead.

Such PC crap.
 
clifton
2007-05-28 4:38:17 AM  
Skookum is still funny. Quite teh satirist.
 
ToeKnee666
2007-05-28 5:29:36 AM  
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Tinky Winky sure will!
 
clifton
2007-05-28 5:32:17 AM  
Oh yeah WSJ, Jerry Falwell had NOTHING to do with the GOP anymore.

Now how many people were hired from his university to the current administration?

Spin all you want WSJ but the GOP is still owned by the Religious Right even after Falwells death.

The GOP just likes to pretend now a days that it's not owned by them.


It's an amazing thing. The right pretends to distance themselves from Falwell, but they get mighty offended when you say something bad about him.

Which is it, guys?
 
ToeKnee666
2007-05-28 5:40:26 AM  
Open letter to Falwell from a totally left wing guy with many words:

http://www.harikari.com/politics/jerry-falwell-is-dead.html

And if you don't want to click:

Dear Mr. Falwell,

Your contribution to the society I shared with you was an unforgivable combination of unity-in-hatred among some of the more virulent religious right and a lowering of the bar for public discourse to the point where Americans, in the aftermath of the most terrifying and deadly events in my lifetime, were placing blame on a narrowly defined sinfulness attributed to anyone with whose definition of sin they disagreed.

Your contribution is like getting caught covering up a lie. You can't undo the lie, and the coverup has just solidified the notion that you're deceitful. All we can do is accept it as part of the past and try to create a different kind of unity. One that brings us together in times of trouble. One that won't tolerate the things you taught.

Sincerely,
Tony

Secondly...

Dear God,

Thank you for killing this asshole. I hope the hell you have prepared for him is every bit as bad as he portrayed it.

Regards,
Tony
 
erik-k [OhFark]
2007-05-28 5:40:45 AM  
Why do y'all think Skookum is funny? It might be amusing if it were subtle or marginally believable. As it is, it's just... stupid. The same unthinking diatrabe posted again and again, without even a hint of having read what it's "responding" to. All he does is suck energy away from actual discussion.
 
clifton
2007-05-28 5:55:04 AM  
Why do y'all think Skookum is funny? It might be amusing if it were subtle or marginally believable. As it is, it's just... stupid. The same unthinking diatrabe posted again and again, without even a hint of having read what it's "responding" to. All he does is suck energy away from actual discussion.

I'm easily amused. :)

Plus, even though his act is amped to 11, it's representive of what the right thinks today. The more skooks is present (hence, why I sponsored him), the more that people are reminded of this.
 
Kurland
2007-05-28 6:03:55 AM  
Skookum is just sounding stupid today, not even close to his normal level of troll. I rate it a 4 out of 10, for a new troll I would give it a 6 out of 10 but I have come to expect better from Skookum and his preformance today is way down from his normal.
 
Random Reality Check
2007-05-28 7:02:25 AM  
skookum,

"Still, I don't want to admit this is a setback: there will emerge another leader who will make this nation even more aware just how necessary it is to get back to God."


Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

-John 2:18-19


Seven deadly sins

Lust
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Gluttony
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Greed
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Sloth
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Wrath
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Pride
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Envy
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vdantev
2007-05-28 8:02:15 AM  
Liberals will miss Jerry Falwell

I agree , it's so hard to aim a urine stream at a tombstone in the dead of night while holding a flashlight with one hand and looking over your shoulder for night watchman.
 
bwesb
2007-05-28 8:35:15 AM  
The man stood up for what he believed in and he took on liberal schools of thought without hesitation or regard for his own image. That is the only thing I liked about him.
Like most demagogues; he gave the people who followed him what they wanted and they adored him for it.
 
Shatner's Bassoon
2007-05-28 8:49:19 AM  
Mr. McCain did not attend Falwell's funeral. Neither did any other GOP presidential candidate. Instead of Karl Rove, purportedly Falwell's accomplice in the vast right-wing conspiracy, the White House sent an obscure aide.


And here's what the "obscure aide" (Tim Goeglein, Special Assistant to the President) had to say at Falwell's funeral:

"I was very pleased and honored to tell Jerry that Liberty University had come to the White House, that young men and women whom he had trained up had joined us as interns and staff. So, a man of vision has seen a vision fulfilled,"

So, don't worry Jerry; your legacy is alive and well in the White House.
 
oddballgeek
2007-05-28 8:58:38 AM  
bwesb: without hesitation or regard for his own image.

riiiiiight. that's what he did. he didn't carefully consider every action and how it would build his image at all.
 
Random Reality Check
2007-05-28 9:05:54 AM  
bwesb mistakenly states,

"The man stood up for what he believed in and he took on liberal schools of thought"...

Proving, once again, that you haven't got a clue what a Liberal is or what a Liberal stands for - but you do have an opinion.

Being ignorant is a forgivable offense but only if one strives to educate oneself and rise above the affliction. Being continually and willfully ignorant is a conscious decision and deserves no quarter.

We should not have to carry you any longer. I am sick of my tax dollars being spent on people who will do nothing to improve their lot in life or add to the general welfare of our country.

Either learn, grow and contribute or expect to reap what you have so diligently sown.
 
AdamK
2007-05-28 9:17:43 AM  
who the fark is Jerry Falwell?
 
clifton
2007-05-28 9:26:47 AM  
The man stood up for what he believed in and he took on liberal schools of thought without hesitation or regard for his own image.

So did Osama.
 
Hobodeluxe
2007-05-28 9:38:59 AM  
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havesometea
2007-05-28 9:41:51 AM  
vdantev: I agree , it's so hard to aim a urine stream at a tombstone in the dead of night while holding a flashlight with one hand and looking over your shoulder for night watchman.

^^^
The winnar!
 
Gsm136
2007-05-28 9:42:13 AM  
skookum Change the record please.

Random Reality Check: Pride

You have got to be kidding me McCarthy really. EVERYBODY knew he was a jack off
 
Random Reality Check
2007-05-28 9:50:20 AM  
Gsm136,

Look closely at who is standing over Senator McCarthy's tombstone and then get back to me.
 
Rann Xerox [TotalFark]
2007-05-28 10:11:04 AM  
Obviously, the Submitter did not read or participate in this legendary thread, otherwise he/she would have known not to post that lie:

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=2805124

/No HTML skillz
 
bartink
2007-05-28 10:31:18 AM  
Amazing to see Skookum aggrandize this piece of garbage. Jesus hung out with hookers and the unemployed. Falwell was a hate-monger. Those who supported him do not follow Christ. Period.

/will the real Jesus followers please stand up
 
zolividor
2007-05-28 10:42:06 AM  
Without Falwell around to keep the bloodthirsty christian savages enraged, will they stay in church and STFU?
 
GoldenMetalRaven
2007-05-28 10:55:34 AM  
Somehow I can picture before Falwell's death he would have said something like this::

"You know what it's like god watching me or something I'm getting a nervous breakdown man. I don't need a thousand people piering on to every second of my life now stop!"

[thump]

Alas, that is what Mikey said.

/American Splendor at it's best
 
Dr. Farkenstein
2007-05-28 10:56:30 AM  
there will emerge another leader who will make this nation even more aware just how necessary it is to get back to God.

To get back to God, first the current administration needs to engage in some Christian acts such as ADMISSIONS OF WRONGDOING and APPEALS FOR FORGIVENESS.

The piece-of-shiat scumbags on the "right side of the aisle" will never admit to any wrongdoing. That's why they deserve to spend the rest of their miserable lives in jail, then in hell for all eternity.

THE REPUBLICANICS.
REVVING UP FOR AN
ETERNITY IN HELL™
 
dr_michael_hfuhruhurr
2007-05-28 11:00:16 AM  
I regret that I only miss his deadly poo-blockage.
 
06Wahoo
2007-05-28 11:24:20 AM  
bartink, Jesus also said to follow Him and God. Something that I have noticed often with many people is they push His social action, but completely miss the most important reason He was here (intentionally perhaps?). Jesus was here to bring us to God. Social action goes hand-in-hand with that, but it is not prime message that Jesus brought us.

Though, it is pretty clear from this thread that few people here understand that message. They love to condemn using Christian standards, but will never use those standards for themselves.

/I'm pretty sure the Bible also spoke against hypocrisy.
 
CalvinMorallis
2007-05-28 11:46:34 AM  
I won't.

Wait. Wait. Maybe......

Nope. I won't.
 
Gsm136
2007-05-28 1:26:55 PM  
Random Reality Check :
Look closely at who is standing over Senator McCarthy's tombstone and then get back to me.

It all makes sence now lol
 
Lionel Mandrake
2007-05-28 1:49:19 PM  
I think it's neat that Conservatives know more about Liberals than Liberals do.
 
Random Reality Check
2007-05-28 2:31:18 PM  
06Wahoo,

Strange...

If Jesus was here to solely push God upon us, you would think he wouldn't have spent so much time setting an example for how we should live.

While I would not discount your position that Jesus did proclaim the love of God, he primary mission (in my view) was to teach mankind how to live in accordance with God's wishes.
 
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