Reply #13: Here's a bit more on Mr. Arrogant, Pseudo-Christian >>>>>>

[Roland99]

http://www.valleyskeptic.com/stupid_1.htm#falwell


- "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, America Can Be Saved, (1979))

-* "The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making, societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will of God.
(Jerry Falwell, "Can Our Young People Find God in the Pages of Trashy Magazines? No, Of Course Not!" Reader's Digest, Aug. 1985: 142-157)

*This quote is from an essay by James Gifford, an essay that was not meant to be taken seriously, but apparently was. I have erred by attributing this quote to Jerry Falwell, but left it in because I feel it is something that he will eventually say. The full essay can be read here http://eta.pha.jhu.edu/~danforth/arc/scifi/Menace_of_Science_Fiction.txt And thanks to Geoffrey A. Landis for pointing this out. http://www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis/

- "Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America."
(Jerry Falwell)

- "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."
(Jerry Falwell)

- "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."


-And then there is the now famous Teletubbie fiasco where Jerry's organization accused Tinky Winky of being a gay role model.


Concerning the terrorist attacks of 9/11
-I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and 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!" He goes on to say "God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve,"