# Jerry Falwell near death! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198 "2007-05-15T16:54:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/61 "2007-05-15T18:44:44Z")
[QUOTE=AtomicDog] If death comes in threes, I can only…wonder…who’s next. [/QUOTE] Can we go with the superfecta instead of the trifecta and get Robertson, Jackson, and Sharpton? ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/62 "2007-05-15T19:00:29Z")
[The Carpetbagger Report](http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10806.html) has a nice little run down of the good reverend’s more atrocious statements and conduct over the years. To put it mildly, he wans’t a very nice man. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/63 "2007-05-15T19:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=yanceylebeef] [The Carpetbagger Report](http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10806.html) has a nice little run down of the good reverend’s more atrocious statements and conduct over the years. [/QUOTE] Time, 1980, has a more detailed look at Fallwell’s rise: [Politics from the Pulpit](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950433,00.html?iid=chix-sphere) > [@](#): > > From the pulpit, through the mails, in leaflets, at mass rallies and on such TV programs as Falwell’s Old-Time Gospel Hour, which appears on 373 stations, members of Moral Majority and allied groups pound home the same message: the U.S. is in a terrifying moral decline, and Christians have a duty to reverse it by registering and voting for candidates who agree with their moral principles. As enunciated by Falwell and other conservative evangelicals, those principles are remarkably similar to the Republican platform—which in fact Moral Majority had a hand in shaping. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/64 "2007-05-15T19:28:23Z")
I’m sorry he didn’t live long enough to watch the GOP either get dragged down into irrelevance by his faction or come to its senses and purge them. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/65 "2007-05-15T19:28:28Z")
[QUOTE=melondeca] We can always hope the Phelps clan will picket Falwell’s funeral, where they will all be struck down by, I don’t know, something creatively painful. [/QUOTE] Drowned by God pissing himself laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/66 "2007-05-15T19:33:34Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Not to worry. Phelps will shortly be posting a burning in hell watch. He’s often called Falwell a “fag enabler”. [/QUOTE] Huh? Wow, Phelps really is wacky. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/67 "2007-05-15T19:47:39Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] Huh? Wow, Phelps really is wacky. [/QUOTE] Well, yeah. But I do seem to recall that Falwell made no secret of his disdain for Phelps. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/68 "2007-05-15T19:47:48Z")
I suppose we could say Jerry Falwell is still near death, he’s just near it from the other direction. Of course, the soothsayers at CBS news are saying he’s too close to caul. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/69 "2007-05-15T19:48:12Z")
Fallwell has finally heeded Og’s calling and is now serving Him as he is best suited. As fertilizer. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/70 "2007-05-15T19:51:51Z")
I’ve started a [share your Falwell stories thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8576195), so that any of us who might have been touched by the man, can share them. Only _true_ stories, please. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/71 "2007-05-15T20:03:13Z")
Thing is, Phelps is really a whole different phenomenon that Falwell. Falwell was hugely influential, he lead a giant movement with hundreds of thousands of adherants. Phelps is one crazy guy and his children and grandchildren. His church is a couple dozen people. It is a cult run by one old guy and his brainwashed adult children. And those pickets of soldier funerals might seem crazy and pointlessly hateful. They are hateful but the hate isn’t pointless. The pickets are a method for Phelps to control his cult. The cult members holding those picket signs get yelled at, screamed at, and so on. The cult members are thereby shown that the entire sinful world hates them, the only positive contact these people have is with other cult members. Simple psychological trick, really. Of course, several of Phelps children HAVE managed to leave his cult. But almost everyone in the cult was born into the cult, and has seen nothing of the outide world except that the outside world hates them. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/72 "2007-05-15T20:06:02Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] I’m not going to wish him ill. [/QUOTE] He’s dead; what more ill can be wished? I’m not going to gloat, but I’m not going to shed a single tear, either. The man was a piece of shit and the world is better off without him. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/73 "2007-05-15T20:21:43Z")
One less fat-assed, small-minded hypocrite breathing my air. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/74 "2007-05-15T20:21:56Z")
Goodbye and good riddance motherfucker. May the void you leave by your departing be filled again with raw sewage, as it was before. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/75 "2007-05-15T20:39:19Z")
But, but, but, who is going to turn the hurricanes away from the east coast now??? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/76 "2007-05-15T20:42:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] He’s dead; what more ill can be wished? I’m not going to gloat, but I’m not going to shed a single tear, either. The man was a piece of shit and the world is better off without him. [/QUOTE] At the time, he wasn’t dead or at least we didn’t know it. So he’s dead and the world may be better off as a whole. Still, there is a family that has lost a loved one and I hate to see all the rejoicing. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/77 "2007-05-15T20:45:53Z")
[QUOTE=Jake] Goodbye and good riddance motherfucker. May the void you leave by your departing be filled again with raw sewage, as it was before. [/QUOTE] Actually, I’d prefer it’d be filled by those guys who dress in drag as nuns. What’s their name? Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? Given how badly we straights have screwed things up, I say we let the queers have a shot at it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/78 "2007-05-15T20:46:26Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] Huh? Wow, Phelps really is wacky. [/QUOTE] Well, after all, Falwell did appear in (or was at least viciously satirized in) _Hustler_, a magazine often used as an aid to masturbation… i.e., men fondling their own penises… eh, sorry. I can’t make it make sense either. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/79 "2007-05-15T21:00:34Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] …Of course, the soothsayers at CBS news are saying he’s too close to caul. [/QUOTE] Anyone see any reason to bother with a jury? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198/80 "2007-05-15T21:04:40Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] Huh? Wow, Phelps really is wacky. [/QUOTE] Phelps (and by extension, I suppose, Phelps’s god) has hated Falwell since 1999, when Falwell “cut a deal with his fag preacher bud, Mel White”. He said that Falwell is a “a Hell-bound Judas”. [http://www.godhatesamerica.com/ghfmir/falwellop.html](http://www.godhatesamerica.com/ghfmir/falwellop.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-falwell-near-death/404198.md?page=5)