Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions

Jerry Falwell was found dead today and the world already seems a better place. Christianity has enough problems in general without nut cases like Falwell spurring on the fringe regions of the faith.

While the papers are reporting on his demise and his contributions to the right wing political engine, I’m going to instead send him of with series of quotes by him, to show just why it is that the world should make this a holiday of celebration.

• AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
• The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country
• If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being
• Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
• I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable
• (re: 9/11 attacks) “…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 try to secularize America…I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen.”
• I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
• 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 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.
• The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That’s like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

But the best and most honest statement Falwell ever made was:

• Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions