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So you know who I hate? Perry Como.
You know who else? Jerry Falwell.
Ding-dong, motherfucker! *Ahem* So yeah, totally not making any bones about the fact that I'm glad to see this asshole gone. If there's a rash of these things in the near future, know that it's because I've found a Death Note. One, by the way (y'know, for the record).
Man, for legal reasons (and legal reasons alone), I hope I never find a Death Note.
But yeah, fuck that asshole. In his asshole. People like him make me wish there actually were a Hell, if only briefly. A few examples:1. The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.
-- Jerry Falwell, Finding Inner Peace and Strength
2. The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976
3. There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
-- Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)
4. I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979 pp. 52-53, from Albert J Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
5. And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
6. I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, [but America's] secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's [decision] not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, backpedaling amidst criticism of his statement blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
On 1, I keep getting disarmed in debates by the charge that nobody seriously believes this, or at least not in large numbers. Yet this is what's being thrown around, and a lot of people really believe it! It's obviously hogwash and easy to defeat in an argument, but its lunacy is precisely the problem I have with it! And yes, I know that that's not what people want to talk about because they don't think that and it makes for rather uninteresting conversation, but it's still frustrating because these conversations are basically of the form:Me: I HAS A PROBLEM WIF RELIJINN!
You: O RLY? WOSSAT?
Me: THAR BE IDIOTZ ABOOT!
You: WTF?! I R NOT IDIOT!
Me: I NO TAHT, BUT MA PROBLEM BE WIF IDIOTZ!
You: WELL, I R NOT IDIOT, & U R NOT IDIOT, SO WAHT'S UR PROBLEM WIF IDIOTZ GOT 2 DO W/US AND/OR RELIJINN?
Me: .....well, the overwhelmingly loud voice of such collective idiocy, which I am really only able to correlate with religious phenomena, seems to suggest at least some causal relation, whether direct or not [two, by the way]; and anyway, without the religion, there wouldn't be religious idiocy, and all other forms of idiocy are easily defeated or at least dismissed without the stigma of intolerance being raised (justified or not).
You: OIC. KTHXBAI. [Three, by the way.]
So, yeah. That's that. For 2 & 3, I refer you to this post. Clearly off his rocker. On 4, thankfully no! As regards 5, dumb and hateful (obviously), but 6? C'mon, this is backpedaling? Oh, and three point five, for the record.
So yeah, I hate this motherfucker and I'm glad he's dead. I don't care what you think of that. I am rejoicing in the demise of someone who lived in a manner antithetical to my own values; his absence makes me happy. But enough of that! On to happier things (like four point five)! Well, happier for other people. My schadenfreude-junkiness is awesome for me, but I realize that others may disagree on precisely what constitutes awesometude.
Did you know that you could be allergic to water? It's true! Also, hooray for bacteria, antibacterial soaps are dumb. And stupid. And bad. Or whatever.
Also, this is happening, and it makes me a sad panda. I wanna do, like, a line-by-line commentary. Seriously, it's like "prayer" suddenly became code for "think about stuff deeply and consider the ramifications like it's important, because it is." That's... argh. You can do that without prayer. I don't know what causal role they think prayer is playing there. Whatever. It's hilarious, you should read it. Hooray for dumb relationship advice.
OK, five point five. I think I need to step out for a smoke. And in case you haven't figured out what I've been counting, it's shots. The "point five" thing got started because I only had half a shot of Disaronno left, but then I moved on to Malibu. Hooray!
You know who else? Jerry Falwell.
Ding-dong, motherfucker! *Ahem* So yeah, totally not making any bones about the fact that I'm glad to see this asshole gone. If there's a rash of these things in the near future, know that it's because I've found a Death Note. One, by the way (y'know, for the record).
Man, for legal reasons (and legal reasons alone), I hope I never find a Death Note.
But yeah, fuck that asshole. In his asshole. People like him make me wish there actually were a Hell, if only briefly. A few examples:1. The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.
-- Jerry Falwell, Finding Inner Peace and Strength
2. The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976
3. There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
-- Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)
4. I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979 pp. 52-53, from Albert J Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
5. And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, "You helped this happen."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
6. I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, [but America's] secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's [decision] not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, backpedaling amidst criticism of his statement blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)
On 1, I keep getting disarmed in debates by the charge that nobody seriously believes this, or at least not in large numbers. Yet this is what's being thrown around, and a lot of people really believe it! It's obviously hogwash and easy to defeat in an argument, but its lunacy is precisely the problem I have with it! And yes, I know that that's not what people want to talk about because they don't think that and it makes for rather uninteresting conversation, but it's still frustrating because these conversations are basically of the form:Me: I HAS A PROBLEM WIF RELIJINN!
You: O RLY? WOSSAT?
Me: THAR BE IDIOTZ ABOOT!
You: WTF?! I R NOT IDIOT!
Me: I NO TAHT, BUT MA PROBLEM BE WIF IDIOTZ!
You: WELL, I R NOT IDIOT, & U R NOT IDIOT, SO WAHT'S UR PROBLEM WIF IDIOTZ GOT 2 DO W/US AND/OR RELIJINN?
Me: .....well, the overwhelmingly loud voice of such collective idiocy, which I am really only able to correlate with religious phenomena, seems to suggest at least some causal relation, whether direct or not [two, by the way]; and anyway, without the religion, there wouldn't be religious idiocy, and all other forms of idiocy are easily defeated or at least dismissed without the stigma of intolerance being raised (justified or not).
You: OIC. KTHXBAI. [Three, by the way.]
So, yeah. That's that. For 2 & 3, I refer you to this post. Clearly off his rocker. On 4, thankfully no! As regards 5, dumb and hateful (obviously), but 6? C'mon, this is backpedaling? Oh, and three point five, for the record.
So yeah, I hate this motherfucker and I'm glad he's dead. I don't care what you think of that. I am rejoicing in the demise of someone who lived in a manner antithetical to my own values; his absence makes me happy. But enough of that! On to happier things (like four point five)! Well, happier for other people. My schadenfreude-junkiness is awesome for me, but I realize that others may disagree on precisely what constitutes awesometude.
Did you know that you could be allergic to water? It's true! Also, hooray for bacteria, antibacterial soaps are dumb. And stupid. And bad. Or whatever.
Also, this is happening, and it makes me a sad panda. I wanna do, like, a line-by-line commentary. Seriously, it's like "prayer" suddenly became code for "think about stuff deeply and consider the ramifications like it's important, because it is." That's... argh. You can do that without prayer. I don't know what causal role they think prayer is playing there. Whatever. It's hilarious, you should read it. Hooray for dumb relationship advice.
OK, five point five. I think I need to step out for a smoke. And in case you haven't figured out what I've been counting, it's shots. The "point five" thing got started because I only had half a shot of Disaronno left, but then I moved on to Malibu. Hooray!