Quote:(to the tune of the old "Cracker Jack" jingle)
so that when the anatomy class gets around to cutting up my cold, dead, flesh, they can announce that Hey! This one has prizes!
"Candy-coated corpses,
Peanuts and a prize!
That's what you get in Reverend Dark!"
That said, Fidoohki, I must agree with Shayne. Falwell possibly did more than any other one single individual to turn American politics into the set of armed camps it is today (which is not to say it hadn't ever been armed camps before, just that he encouraged the current distribution of conflicts to benefit his own agenda). He is one of the major reasons I paused in my born-again beliefs, re-examined my faith, and decided what it was I really believed in -- and his particular version of Christianity, which seemed so often in conflict with the princples taught by Christ, wasn't it.
While as an agnostic, I still hold on to the distant, probably vain hope of an afterlife where Shayne does not, I am still of the opinion that the only people to whom an immediate post-mortem period of respect matters are the living -- and in this case, any period of "respect" would only serve to reinforce the false legitimacy he and his followers tried to give the political credo that was the payload hidden behind the wrapper of religion. I will not legitimize the man's agenda by hypocritically pretending that it is improper to criticize him simply because he died.
Sure I'm speaking ill of the dead. But then, the dead don't care -- when was the last time you saw one complain?
-- Bob
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