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Archive for May, 2007

Would you be surprised if I told you that Jerry Falwell’s death will have been met with happiness and celebration amongst scores of Christians?  If you are an Evangelical Christian, you will understand what I am talking about and if you’re not, it may come as a surprise.

While many Evangelical Christians will miss the Rev. Falwell, they will also celebrate his death as a time to ‘go home.’  Your reaction may be; ‘what is he talking about?’   Christians believe that our life on earth is temporary just as our earthly body is temporary.  People generally last for 70 or 80 or 90 years and then their physical body just runs out of steam.  Christians believe that those who are ‘born-again’ have a spiritual body that lives on through eternity.

Jerry Falwell was one of those born-again types who had a more exciting life to look forward too.  To get to that spiritual life, the Rev. Falwell had to expire; he did.

His family and friends will miss him dearly, but at the same time, rejoice in knowing that he is in ‘paradise.’   If you are still scratching your head and wondering out loud just what I’m talking about, you’re not alone.  Many millions across America and across the world don’t understand what motivates Evangelical Christians to wake up with a smile every day.  And if they don’t have a smile every morning, they at least have a smile on their death bed.

Jerry Falwell was demonized by the press.  He was castigated and pigeon-holed and mischaracterized as an intolerant bigot.  The extreme left spoke his name only with condemnation and repulsion.  Their conception of him was that he represented everything that they hate and he was a thorn in their side.  In reality, he was just a small town preacher.

You have to understand that Jerry Falwell just believed what every other evangelical preacher believed.  He knew that America’s fabric is held together by the family; one dad, one mom and one to several children.  The nuclear family is essential to America and Jerry Falwell wanted to do what he could to secure America’s future by promoting that simple fact.

While Jerry Falwell was characterized as intolerant by the left and the main-stream media, it was intolerance towards his efforts to keep safe the family and the sanctity of life that earned him many unfair monikers.  For Reverend Falwell’s mission was not one of hate or intolerance or bigotry, but a belief in the family and the value of human life.

He left the Moral Majority, as its leader, 20 years ago.  Twenty years is a long time folks.  His focus after leaving was no longer political.  His focus became his church and his university.  The press continued to go to great lengths to cast him in an unfavorable light even to his death.  Newspaper articles about him on the day he died, in left-wing publications, showed no class or integrity in defaming his name.  No forethought was given to his family or followers.  The visceral hatred on the left knows no bounds or decency.

To those who knew him personally, he was a friendly mentor and always personable.  His parishioners and students crossed all racial and ethnic demarcations and represented a cross-section of America.  They knew the Jerry Falwell that we will never know.  For them, his faith and familiar smile was that of a small town preacher; nothing more and nothing less.

If you are a disgusting, vulgar, obnoxious, ludicrous person incapable of rational thought, you can be a star in America.

As long as the extreme left controls entertainment, Hollywierd and network television, the least bright, most pathetic, poor excuses for a human being can make millions.  And, they can have their own show on network or cable TV, propelling them to even greater heights.  This is popular culture today and this is sad.

Rosie O’ Donnell, who’s picture can be found next to the word ‘pompous’ in the dictionary, proved to be a radical leftist windbag on ‘The View’ television show.  When I heard that her contract negotiations had fallen through, my first thought was that her career would now shoot to new heights. 

That is the way the extreme left works.  If you are willing to tell public falsehoods and make baseless accusations in front of millions of television viewers, there is a place waiting for you in the superstar suite.  If the victims of your lies and condemnations are the Bush administration or conservatives or Republicans or Christians, then you will be rewarded in the most remarkable ways.  This is one of the methods used by the radical left to bolster the Democratic Party, liberal candidates and far left organizations.

In a normal, centrist society, Rosie O’Donnell would not be cleaning streets.  Her arrogant, loud-mouthed dribble would be regarded as just that; dribble.  Her theories, subjective conspiracy rumors and conjecture would be seen as the ramblings of a person on the lunatic fringe.  But place her in the vanguard of the American entertainment machine and she takes on a superstar status that regrettably can find justification nowhere.  What have we come too?

The extreme left in America is pulling the strings of Democratic presidential candidates, giving guidance to the 9th Circuit Court and running the ACLU.  They run in lock step, without regard to factual information and use four-letter words in place of rational debate. 

Rosie O’ Donnell is one of their poster children, elevated above the common person, worthy of worship.  She represents all that is killing America.  She represents all that will darken America’s future.  Her hate-filled intolerance is a hallmark of the radical left and is a model for future generations of left-wingers.  She will have a successful future that will know no bounds.