Jerry Falwell

The quite Right(-winged) reverend dies at 73.

LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73.

Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell was found unresponsive late Tuesday morning and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

The reverend was always a kook, but his heart, centered on Jesus Christ, was in the right place--most of time.

The occasions in which it wasn't, however, were glaring.

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 [9/11 to] happen."

Leaving aside the offensive nature of the statement, what the reverend forgot was the lesson of Job. Bad things happen to the just and unjust alike--not necessarily because of action or inaction, but because this world belongs to the Accuser.

Rev. Falwell erred--but it's what we humans do. Now he gets to RIP and that's what I wish for his soul.

Others, however, are celebrating. But that's to be expected. It will be interesting to see who has the last laugh.

(Thanks to Hot Air)