There's your answer, fishbulb.
An addendum to my previous post on Jerry Falwell's passing. Apparently, Falwell gave an interview to CNN's Christiane Amanpour just last week. It was intended to air this fall as part of a CNN special about religion.During this interview, Falwell mentions that he needs about "20 more years" to complete his work, and brings up the example of Hezekiah in the Bible, who supposedly asked God for 15 more years of life, and received it.
So Falwell says in the interview he's praying for 20 more years, "with an option to renew."
Twenty more years? God didn't even see fit to give you TWENTY MORE DAYS!!
Now, I don't actually believe that God decides when people live or die.
But plenty of evangelicals who now mourn Falwell do believe that. So I guess I'd ask them -- does it tell you something that Jerry Falwell is dead a week after asking God for twenty more years?
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3 Comments:
That is pretty excellent if you ask me.
Eric,
What exactly are you going to tell little Sophie when she asks you why you are happy another human being is dead and you hope he is burning in hell?
Waste of human life?
In condeming his actions you have sunk as low as you believe him to be.
MW
I guess I would tell Sophie that there are some evil people in the world. And there are some people who (in my opinion) make the world a worse place.
Was it wrong for people to be happy that Hitler killed himself? Is it wrong for the people of Iraq to be glad that Saddam Hussein was hanged?
Now, do I equate Falwell with Hitler or Hussein? Of course not. But in my view, there are some deaths which make the world a better place. That's of course not a justification for TAKING someone's life. But when that life ends, I also don't see any harm in acknowledging the fact that there's one less evil person in the world.
And hating an individual person, such as I hated Falwell, is not the same as hating groups of people -- the way Falwell hated blacks, gays, feminists, etc. I hated Falwell for what he did to rational discourse and church/state separation in this country. And I feel 100% fully justified in that.
And when Sophie's old enough to understand all of this, I will gladly explain it to her.
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