This week total nutjob Jerry Falwell died. Hold your applause, folks. He did a lot of damage to America and the world through his hateful speech and intolerant beliefs. Falwell was a menace to society and an abomination to every rational-minded person on the planet. I'm glad he's gone, and I'm sure you'll agree after reading the Falwell quotes below. (Thanks to the CDP for posting Falwell quotes and inspiring this entry. Take note that the CDP does not endorse the views expressed above [or below, for that matter]). On to the Falwell lunacy!

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."

"If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth... We need to pull out all the stops to recruit and train 25 million Americans to become informed pro-moral activists whose voices can be heard in the halls of Congress. I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!"

"The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc."

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."

"And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America--I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.' " --Falwell's take on the cause of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by Muslim extremists

"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!"

"There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution."

"The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews."

All quotes taken from Positive Atheism (http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/foulwell.htm)