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[hummingwolf]

So one man who managed to convince many that Christianity is defined by anger and hate has died. Let us watch in amazement while many people respond to his death by showing that they too can be defined by anger and hate. None of this vitriol will prove anything about who is right, if anyone. Much as I hate to say it, though, some of the reactions might prove entertaining.

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[hraith.livejournal.com]

I guess I thought of him as a clown. I'm trying to figure out why now. Probably because I had a friend in college who belonged to Assembly of God, and she loved Jimmy Swaggart's recordings of church hymns, which struck me as a little odd because that was about the time all these Evangelical preachers were getting caught with their pants down and such. Aside from my friend's oddly positive opinion of Fallwell, Swaggart, and their ilk, and the positive opinions from everyone in her youth group, I knew nothing about these guys except the jokes I heard on The Tonight Show. We Catholics really never cared.

Oh yeah, and Tammy Bakker with her surreal amount of make-up. Maybe that contributed to my idea that they were all clowns. Or maybe it was that they were performance artists. Catholic priests aren't usually performance artists on that level.

My only other thought beyond that has been, "Well, they'll all die sometime or other. Bakker, Graham, Swaggart, even Robertson." Actually I'm looking forward to the day Pat Robertson hangs up the ol' politics hat. If he does it before he physically dies, that's cool too.

[hraith.livejournal.com]

That's Falwell, not Fallwell. Freudian typo! And also, this isn't really Hraith. It's me. Hee!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Falwell said plenty of things which, particularly when taken out of context, might have seemed too ridiculous to be taken seriously. But he's the guy who founded the Moral Majority and helped make the "Religious Right" a major force in politics in recent decades, so he was a bit more influential than the average clown.

[hraith.livejournal.com]

I guess I don't pay much attention to that, either. It just doesn't factor into my life. It's weird to think that it factors into the lives of millions of other people. What are these people thinking? so alien to me.