Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Damn. That sucks.
Don’t get me wrong, Falwell was a flaming rat bastard and needs to be remembered as a hateful bigot whose rhetoric inspired the Army of God and the likes of Eric Rudolph (who to this day continues to spew his special brand of bile from behind the walls of a federal pound-me-in-the-@$$ Supermax prison). There will be time for a Speaking for the Dead, but that time is not now.
For all of Falwell’s faults - and there were many, many faults - he was still human. That’s far more credit than his defenders have EVER given his critics.
Although I no longer consider myself a Christian (thanks largely to the efforts of Falwell and his cohort to use the Bible as a cudgel against anyone who believed differently), I was raised to believe that any deity worth worshipping would be an omnibenevolent being with an infinite capacity for forgiveness.
Even for flaming rat bastards.
