Jerry Falwell Dying?

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[i]LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The Rev. Jerry Falwell was hospitalized with breathing difficulties Tuesday and listed in critical condition, Lynchburg General Hospital said in a statement.

Doctors said Falwell was on a ventilator and his condition had stabilized. He was back in the hospital a month after battling pneumonia.

Falwell, 71, is the founder of the Moral Majority and chancellor of Liberty University, which he also founded.

He was treated for pneumonia for 13 days in late February and early March. For a time, he was on a ventilator.

Falwell was in the pulpit Easter Sunday at Thomas Road Baptist Church and appeared in good health, said the Rev. Dave Randlett, a senior associate pastor.

"He always looks up so you wouldn't know if he wasn't" feeling well, Randlett said. "He was very optimistic." He had no detail on Falwell's condition Tuesday.
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"I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians, ... 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 [terrorist attack] happen." Jerry Falwell, 700 Club, 2001-SEP-13.

Is it really too much to ask?

― Rand D. Butterstein, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

let us pray.

(also send me $5)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I abhor wishing death upon people, which makes me feel really bad that the first thing that crossed my mind when I read this thread title was "YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope he's suspended in a persistent vegetative state.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I won't wish him (or virtually anyone) any specific ill will. That said I won't mourn him for one second. The man is a fucking villain.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"I hope he's suspended in a persistent vegetative state"

It's been that way since I first heard of him.

What a shitbird that guy is. How much suffering of innocents has he caused, encouraged and endorsed? Don't answer that. I almost hope that he's right (sorta) and there is a hell, because if there is he'll be getting the full Heironymous Bosch treatment down there, and he richly deserves it.

― Austin S (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yay more reasons for evangelicals to be in the "news"!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I abhor wishing death upon people, which makes me feel really bad that the first thing that crossed my mind when I read this thread title was "YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Indeed. Normally I wouldn't so brazenly hope for a man to die, but Falwell has long had a place on the "special exemptions" list.

― Rand D. Butterstein, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

No ill will at all. I just think he should stay hooked up on machines and put on display at his Bible institute, kind of like a living Lenin's tomb. They could charge to visit/throw tomatoes/pray/pose with him.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Member when he climbed up in THE TOWER?

― andy --, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That wasn't him.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That was Charles Whitman.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps he'd breathe easier if he got rid of all that neck fat.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, he really doesn't seem to take very good care of himself.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

he's racing w.the pope to not let the other guy in

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"I loved him as a good Christian man; I look at Johnny as a great Christian. I knew him as that. He was a great guy."

--Orenthal James Simpson (not a murderer)

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Woops, wrong thread. Kind of.

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't wish death on him. but i also won't mourn him when he dies.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

now, when will be rid of pat robertson?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Pat's a little less prone to overconsumption so it might take a little while longer.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember when he was going on about the homo-secular humanists bringing on the terrorists and somebody said, "Ok, but who would you rather have sitting next to you on a hijacked plane, Jerry Falwell or Mark Bingham?"

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

now, when will be rid of pat robertson?!?

-- Eisbär (llamasfu...), March 29th, 2005.

Amen!

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

damn, missed.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I support his right to die.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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