re: #319 capitalist piglet

Not to turn up the dimmer on the party here, but:

Is it accurate to say he blamed America? I thought he was blaming a part of it - a culture that was sliding into Godlessness. Am I mistaken?

And in any case, didn’t he apologize?

Also, I have to take issue with the idea that this man was “evil”. I can understand why people wouldn’t take him seriously, but I am struggling to understand what was “evil” about him. He was just a pastor, right? Am I missing something heinous that he did, or something? I very well could have - I didn’t pay him much attention when he was alive - so if he did something that would change my rather benign impression of him, please enlighten me. Someone earlier called him a “threat”, I thought…and I was trying to figure out what that was about, too.

“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.’” —on the 9/11 attacks

Jerry Falwell said this as a guest on Pat Robertson’s show, just a few days after 9-11, and Pat agreed with him. They only apologized, under duress, when confronted by the righteous outrage of millions of Americans.

He founded the infamous Moral Majority. Here are some of his quotes:

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