Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Darn, forgot about Phelps. Title should have been "One Down, Three To Go".
But Phelps seems too extreme to the point that I don't think Robertson, Limbaugh, nor Falwell wanted to associate with him in the first place.....
Back to Falwell, reason why I typed it that way? The world would most likely be better off without him. Anyone who claims that those who do not follow his beliefs allowed 9-11 to happen does not deserve any sympathy from me and will only get a good round of "Good riddance" once they are gone.
-------------------- "And slowly, you come to realize, it's all as it should be, you can only do so much. If you're game enough, you could place your trust in me. For the love of life, there's a tradeoff, we could lose it all but we'll go down fighting...." - David Sylvian FreeSpace 2, the greatest space sim of all time, now remastered!
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Heh, I remember getting banned from one prop-makers forum for saying "one down, Thatcher to go" when Reagan made the world a better place by leaving it. All these wingnuts who not long before had been gloating happily over the deaths of Uday and Qusay were now all "Oh, how can you say such horrid things, the death of anyone is a great tragedy no matter what you think of them."
I don't have his life story in detail, but from what I can find, I have no reason to consider him a great man to be missed. This man made Christianity look bad. He was a loud, well known voice in the USA, and he used that voice to damage his God's reputation. He made the job of the Church that much harder, having to make up for his mistakes.
But I still take no pleasure in his death. Regardless of how badly he may have acted, he was still my brother.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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I hope the "Brother" comnment is not literal.
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And just to try to make my sentiment (and others' here, it seems) as clear as possible: we're not celebrating his death, but simply his absence. When you consider that all life affects all other life in some way, it's sad when one of those lives ends, but it's simply the natural way of things. (In this case, anyway; if he had been murdered by some nutcase, this would be an entirely different conversation, and I would never condone that.)
Considering that Falwell spent his life preaching hatred and prejudice against other life, it's a sad but true fact that the world will be a better place without him. Or to put it (yet) another way, I regret how he spent his life a whole heck of a lot more than I regret his death.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Exactly.
Now we wait for Robertson, Limbaugh, and Phelps to join him.
Although for the "murdered by a nutcase" scenario, I'm ambivalent to how I would respond in that circumstance.
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Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
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The whole life is precious thing is na�ve in my view. What is precious about a life that is evil, or that is hatemongering (small difference), or that murders another (smaller difference)? I don't regret that person's death. Everyone does die. It's just a cycle. Things live and die. If a certain evil person's death comes sooner than maybe it should, I'm not going to cry about it.
And the man was evil. Not as evil as other men you could name, but hatemongering, intolerant, poisoning, hurtful, and wishing to cause others harm. That's still evil.
And MinutiaeMan, very well put and I agree completely.
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OnToMars
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: ...he used that voice to damage his God's reputation.
Golly, God should really speak up and do something about that.
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Not to mention that a big fat dude who apparently stresses out about a lot really ought to have died younger. If one were to postulate any sort of divine intervention, one would almost have to assume the man's life had been unnaturally extended.
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Hm... Maybe it wasn't God he was working for...
--Jonah
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Shik
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Loki?
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Daniel Butler
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That mischievous bastard...oughta stay in Ysgard where he belongs. Interfering here in our Christian decency. snrk..
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