That bell is back again...

[katiebgood]

Though this time it tolled for someone who I have far less personal connection with.  (Yes, I did just call my cat a "someone"- she showed far more signs of being sentient than most of my high school classmates, so she rates.)

Jerry Falwell is dead.

And I snigger at things like this, or this, and I wonder about the nature of Christianity.  It was

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[bellisaurius]

The media as a whole, I think, has been kind to Falwell upong hearing the news. After noting that he considered that entry into politics to be inimical to religion once, and getting someone to tell falwell's side (the he was plaing the role of gadfly, as opposed to something more sinister; that in real life he wouldn't have a porblem taking to someone gay or whatnot), I don;t feel sympathetic, but I do "get" it a little

[katiebgood]

I've been gleefully ignoring the standard American media for months now- the International Herald Tribune is much more sane. The concept of searching CNN and the like for coverage is somehow abhorrent to me, however- this is one of those "can we just move on now" subjects for me. If it was Phelps, well, that's a different story. With Falwell, there was more contempt on my part than anything else- though I did hear a story about a prank he allegedly pulled that involved killing a cat which really disturbed me.

In relation to the "would actually be polite in person" I have a friend who's mom is a pastor, and there are friends of friends of friends of the family who know Falwell, or something, and apparently in order to make clear how crappy he thought these friends' theologies were, he called her up and congratulated her when she was assigned to her first congregation. Which is the kind of snarky backbiting I can get behind (or in front of?).

[bellisaurius]

Why is Phelps saying he's going to protest the funeral? Some part of it's not clicking. I'm not one of those folks who thinks of the christian right as a monolith, but it still seems odd.

[katiebgood]

Dunno. Probably just another person he thinks belongs in hell. Falwell wasn't quite as far along the insanity spectrum as Phelps, after all.