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Trust fund kids inheriting the family business. Nothing wrong with that.

Jerry Falwell, sermon delivered at Thomas Road Baptist Church on Sunday night, March 21, 1965, titled “Ministers and Marches ” Quoted in full from Perry Deane Young’s, God’s Bullies: Power Politics and Religious Tyranny (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982).

Here is the quote Falwell will rightly be remembered by:

AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

The comment Chris Hitchens made was May 17, 2007 the on Hannity and Colmes show, not on Bill O’Reilly’s show. I apologize if anyone was offended by my posting of it.

This is the reaction to Falwell’s death from American Atheists:

“While we recognize and respect the grief of friends and relatives, it must be acknowledged in the wake of Rev. Falwell’s death that he and the organizations he founded, especially the so-called Moral Majority, were serious threats to our Constitution and, specifically, the separation of church and state.”

“Jerry Falwell was instrumental in galvanizing millions of American evangelicals into an intolerant, sectarian and authoritarian political movement. Gays, women, secularists, civil-libertarians and other groups who did not fit in to his plan to construct ‘One Nation Under God’ were stigmatized and attacked. Civil liberties were in jeopardy. Falwell and other religious right leaders advanced their political agenda in the name of Christianity, while demonizing their opponents.”

“Perhaps the most ignominious moment in Falwell’s career was his appearance with Rev. Pat Robertson on a television program which blamed the terrorist attacks of September 11 not on Islamic fundamentalist fanatics, but on a wide swath of the American people — women (because of their support for abortion), gay and lesbian Americans, and individuals and organizations like American Atheists which labor for the separation of church and state.”

“We cannot and must not lionize Rev. Jerry Falwell because he is now dead. We expect that some politicians beholden to the religious right, who perhaps owe their political careers in part to Falwell, will praise him for his religiosity or avuncular style. The truth is, however, that the Rev. Jerry Falwell was a dangerous man who opposed and worked against many of the key values underpinning our secular American democracy.”

– Ellen Johnson, President
AMERICAN ATHEISTS

American Atheists is a nationwide movement which defends the civil rights of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and state, and addresses issues of First Amendment public policy.
Jonathan Falwell: “preach on biblical and moral issues (such as traditional marriage or abortion); urge constituents to register and vote; discuss positions of the candidates; even personally endorse candidates.

“Further,” Falwell continued, “churches are permitted to distribute nonpartisan voter guides, register voters, provide transportation to the polls, hold candidate forums and introduce visiting candidates.”

As we can see Jonathan Falwell has stepped right into his daddy’s boots. This younger Falwell is a very dangerous religious fanatic and like his daddy is a shameless liar. One false claim he’s made is that none of his churches have ever lost their tax-exemptions because of politicking. They have and anyone can check the Internet and see a whole slew of lies coming from Lynchburg where it seems it is business as usual.

Warning #1.

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“Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.”

“If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”

“The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”

How about Chris Hitchen’s comment to Bill O Reilly after Falwell died? He said if they gave Falwell an enema they could have buried him in a matchbox.