Didn't Want to Kick a Dead Horse's Ass, But...

Jerry Falwell died this past week, and while many feel that the world has lost a great man, I just can't stop myself from wondering if his afterlife is quite what he expected.

Here's a selection of his greatest quotes, taken from the Website The Progressive Review, by Sam Smith.

• If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being
• 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.
• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals
• The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
• The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.
• I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status.
• We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself.
• The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.

And this list doesn't even include some of his later hits, such as his duet with Pat Robertson about how Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment on the gays of New Orleans. The Daily Show did a piece on this that I remember. It showed a graphic of the neighborhoods of New Orleans that had been flooded, and pointed out that one of the few places there that had remained relatively undamaged was the predominantly gay section. The lesson? God loves the gays, but hates the "gay-adjacent".

That's what this "great" man stood for. My heart goes out to his family in his time of grief, and my thoughts go out to the poor people who followed him. Your world must be very dark, indeed.