On 16 May 2007 14:22:18 -0700, The Last Conformist
<andreasj@gmail.com> wrote:
On May 16, 7:38 am, Josh Hayes <jos...@spamblarg.net> wrote:
"Tachyglossus" <Tachyglos...@ecom.net> wrote innews:jku2i.5834$nN5.3527@newsfe1-win.ntli.net:
No hypocrisy here, cupcake. Falwell ... doesn't get
special rights for being a corpse, and I'm not prepared to give a
veneer of 'respectability' to his worthless life and his vile legacy
by pretending that he or his 'ideas' are now somehow worthy of
'respect'.
You must be pretty young, to be so desperately defending the indefensible.
Nobody says his ideas are worthy of respect because he's dead.
We're saying, nobody should celebrate someone dying. It's not like the
ideas die with him. It's not like you're going to convince anyone that
Falwell was a rotten ***** by doing the macarena because he's dead. In fact,
not one good thing can come of celebrating his death, but a number of bad
things can (like, f'rinstance, you'll get labelled as an insensitive
juvenile jerk, and hence not worth listening to about anything).
How is that a bad thing?
He didn't quite make it:
"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!"
--Rev. Jerry Falwell
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such
a school has no religious instruction and a general
moral instruction without a religious foundation is
built on air; consequently, all character training
and religion must be derived from faith...We need
believing people."
--Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933
Clothaire
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