FMC 3.0

OK, you knew this was coming. I can’t help but comment on the passing of Jerry Falwell. My comment is simply this: Good Riddance.

He was the kind of guy that gave the Religious Right a bad image to liberals like me. Most of my distaste for religion, and what it stands for, comes from hate mongers like Falwell unable to shut up. Believe it or not, I do have friends that are very religious, and they’re good people. They just get zealots and gas bags to speak for them, and the entire group looks bad. It’s the same as having Bush speak for Americans (we’re not all bad) or Hitler for the Germans (not all of them supported what he did in WWII.)

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. So the world is down one homophobic, sexist, racist anti-Semite. How can this be seen as a bad thing? He can no longer pollute our culture with his hate speech shrouded as gospel. I realize the quote in the title is become more of a joke than anything else these days. But he’s had a few more doozies over the years (It seems fitting that SFGate.com has a whole list of them here.)

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

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

“I listen to feminists and all these radical gals — most of them are failures. They’ve blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That’s all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they’re mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They’re sexist. They hate men — that’s their problem.”

“The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.”

“I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I’m going to buy a Suburban next time.”

“The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the National Organization of Witches.”

“God doesn’t listen to Jews.”

See what I mean? Christianity should be glad to have this blight gone. I realize that tolerance of others ain’t their strong point, but they tend not to just hate anyone different. They’re generally live and let live. I’m sure Falwell would have thought I was Hell bound for all of this, but something tells me his new accommodations reek of sulfur.

All we need to do is send Pat Robertson to Venezuela, and the world will only get better.