The Rev. Jerry Falwell dies at 73 - Democratic Underground

Source: The Buffalo News

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said. He was 73.

Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but he said Falwell "has a history of heart challenges."

"I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast," Godwin said. "He went to his office, I went to mine, and they found him unresponsive."

Falwell, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and serves as its president.

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That's why I'm different than he is. I actually wish peace for all persons no matter what they've done.

I do not wish peace for warmongers, but I take no joy when the pay-backs are made.

WE are ALL going to DIE. What will they say about us then?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

In the final analysis, "We are ALL one family.

AND, politics is sure a lot of fun for us ALL too.

The 1,099 Trillion Principle.
How many ancestors do we have?

http://jqjacobs.net/anthro/ancestors.html

But, But, But..., St. Peter, I'm a man of the cloth!!!

I know what it is like to lose a family member, but that is as far as I will go with this.

Perhaps his death will bring peace not only to him, but to the thousands of souls his invective has troubled. Measured by the strength of his convictions, Falwell was a giant; measured by the content of his convictions, he was an intellectually and emotionally stunted dwarf.

Please send over if any of you has a connection with the Great Beyond administration, since I don't know where Mr. Falwell is at the moment:

May he rest in peace. While, for the record, I don't think that too likely, I hope with all my heart that, in the end of ends, God is more merciful and forgiving than most of us believe or even think possible. Much more than Jerry Falwell did possible, at least.

Fare thee well, Reverend, now you have gone to the One that reverence is truly due. Fare thee well, judge of men, now that you will be judged by the One who has all power to judge, all wisdom and all mercy. Fare thee well, you who urged perfection, now that you have met the only One who is perfect.

Fare thee well - and may the rest of us fare no worse now that you're gone and your voice silenced.

P.S.: It had to happen on a day I was thinking of how compatible at all was televangelism - and making money off it - with the Biblical doctrine. Talk about weird... I think I may have to think happier thoughts from now on, just in case.

We should have a National Fundamentalist Holiday to Celebrate
his death along with Osama bin Ladin (once we find him) and
Pat Robertson! Any other idiots I left out?

You don't suppose "God" withdrew his cone of protection?

Assuming for the moment that Falwell is wrong and the Buddhists are right, what do you think he will come back as? Personally, if he comes back as a human being, which is doubtful, I'd suspect he and his fundy fellow travelers are destined to be reborn in the war zone in Iraq.

He's dead. Good.

(With thanks to the great Moms Mabley.)

totality of his evil.

what Falwell claimed he was about ...

maybe Jesus ripped him a new one, and then signed off with "buh-bye" ...

What if the almighty is a Jewish woman who's an environmentalist?

a Black Jewish Lesbian environmentalist who is pro-choice.

And refuses to say "under God" during the pledge, LOL!

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, so:

:evilgrin:

Hope he rests in peace.

I always think people like him are running from their own demons?

I loathed him, but I do hope he's learning the truth about now? And, if so I hope it brings him peace.

only if you put a stake in his heart first.

Sorry, but I'm glad he's dead.

the heart, it may not really take.

"Falwell survived two serious health scares in early 2005. He was hospitalized in February for two weeks with what was described as a viral infection, then hospitalized again in March with congestive heart failure after being found unconscious. At that time he had to be resuscitated by EMTs at the hospital emergency room."

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18679412 /

acts on Earth are his now. Good.

Tee.Hee.

may God have mercy on his soul... read my sig line

I think I'll crank up some Tull right now!

thanks to you and MM for that chuckle

Nice to hear her name mentioned.

That's excellent.
I'll have to remember that...

That bastard...

--IMM

Uncharitable or not, I am sorry his death was not more painful and drawn out. He did not deserve a relatively peaceful, painless and quick death.
There I've said it..and I am not the least bit sorry.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/jerry_falwell ;_ylt=AmF8okQpuO7eMNwhfLBqj7ys0NUE

:woohoo:

All the hate this man spewed.........

Tucker will be crying this afternoon.

where he blamed his awful comments about 9/11 on a lack of sleep? Funny, I've been sleep deprived many times in my life but it never caused me to start spewing out racist, sexist, and homophobic comments.

I'm not gonna dance on the man's grave but I'm certainly not going to say anything nice about the man either...so whatever

Falwell arriving in heaven through the tunnel of light with arms open wide exclaiming, "I'm here!"

on the other side of the tunnel is Teletubby land with Tinky Winky there to greet him saying "Eh oh!"

Please please someone with talent draw that for me!

Let's commission it! OK...who can draw?

when this lardbag made the Tinky Winky comments, the next week, I was in San Francisco, and all the shops in the Castro had Tinky Winky dolls in their window displays!

I will have that picture in my head for days.

:rofl:

he couldn't say he needed to go to rehab, could he?

he will no doubt be hailed as some sort of martyred saint. I'm going to be sick... :puke:

condolences to his family...

Rev. Jerry Falwell dies

LYNCHBURG, Va. - A Liberty University executive says the Rev. Jerry Falwell has died.

Falwell was hospitalized in "gravely serious" condition after being found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said earlier.

Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but he said Falwell "has a history of heart challenges."

"I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast," Godwin said. "He went to his office, I went to mine, and they found him unresponsive."

6 egg 3 cheese omelet

1/2# bacon

4 sausage links

loaf of toast

butter

coffee (w/sweet & low, whole cream)

Buttermilk 1 Gal

OJ 3 oz

Prune Juice quart

A history of heart challenges? Like trying to find one, or his weight/lack of exercise, (except jaw and mouth muscles), did him in?

Pig's knuckles and fatback.

As far as I'm concerned, he lived too long.

Isn't he to blame for EVERYTHING? :rofl:

just reading what he had for breakfast!! yow!!!

Falwell	jean	May-15-07 01:36 PM	#1
Not surprising given the original story	Robbien	May-15-07 01:37 PM	#2
Sorry, I wish no peace on him	BlueEyedSon	May-15-07 02:29 PM	#184
I do.	Exiled in America	May-15-07 02:31 PM	#191
Not me	LeighAnn	May-15-07 02:51 PM	#222
WE are ALL going to DIE. What will they say about us then?	L. Coyote	May-15-07 03:44 PM	#300
Weenie roast in Hell tonight!	Lord Balto	May-15-07 05:18 PM	#362
My sympathies to his family	HockeyMom	May-15-07 03:44 PM	#301
Well said! nt	bilgewaterbill	May-16-07 12:28 AM	#461
You think Fred Phelps might protest at his funeral? That would be interesting. n/t	IanDB1	May-15-07 04:13 PM	#333
he is!	nodehopper	May-15-07 08:31 PM	#425
Peace upon us all	Poppy Lee	May-16-07 07:56 AM	#470
Hi Poppy Lee!	unhappycamper	May-16-07 07:58 AM	#471
On Jerry Falwell	ShamanaSZ	May-15-07 05:34 PM	#374
Link	Behind the Aegis	May-15-07 01:37 PM	#3
He is dead	Tulum_Moon	May-15-07 01:38 PM	#7
Ha, there is a God..........	Waya	May-15-07 01:44 PM	#42
We should have a National Holiday	DeleteRepublicans	May-15-07 02:12 PM	#145
Welcome to DU DeleteRepublicans	Lochloosa	May-15-07 02:53 PM	#231
James Dobson	Waya	May-15-07 03:25 PM	#275
Fred Phelps too, while you're at it...	MLFerrell	May-15-07 03:50 PM	#307
Ted Haggard. n/t	Dark	May-16-07 12:29 AM	#462
You took the words right out of my mouth!	anotherCTliberal	May-15-07 03:02 PM	#243
I'm waiting for Pat Robertson's explanation of this...	Lord Balto	May-15-07 05:34 PM	#373
Reincarnation Question	Lord Balto	May-15-07 08:28 PM	#422
Never talk about the dead without saying something good	Frank Cannon	May-15-07 01:37 PM	#4
Cleaver!	liberal N proud	May-15-07 01:38 PM	#10
'Cleaver'?	President Jesus	May-15-07 07:42 PM	#412
Perfect response to this event...	TankLV	May-15-07 01:39 PM	#13
all the mysteries of life are clear to him now and he has to face the	roguevalley	May-15-07 01:42 PM	#29
I wonder what Jesus is telling him about	zbdent	May-15-07 02:12 PM	#146
Would Jesus bother? Falwell probably has more to worry about in his new place	LiberalFighter	May-15-07 02:22 PM	#171
Hey, I'm giving him some credit	zbdent	May-15-07 02:26 PM	#178
He'll be in the Ken Lay Suite - until he gets acclimated to his new	rkc3	May-15-07 02:51 PM	#223
What if it isn't Jesus?	BonnieJW	May-15-07 03:00 PM	#240
Correction	connecticut yankee	May-15-07 04:38 PM	#345
And practices witchcraft	silverojo	May-15-07 10:56 PM	#441
LOL	Mad_Dem_X	May-15-07 01:43 PM	#36
Don't understand how a person who professed to be one with God could be as he was.	wake.up.america	May-15-07 02:11 PM	#139
Self loathing perhaps?	mzmolly	May-15-07 03:33 PM	#285