Falwell reportedly found unconscious, hospitalized
 

LYNCHBURG, Virginia (AP) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell was found unconscious in his office Tuesday and taken to the hospital, a Liberty University executive told a newspaper.

Ron Godwin, the executive vice president of the school, told The News & Advance of Lynchburg that Falwell was found unconscious after missing an appointment Tuesday morning. Falwell arrived at Lynchburg General Hospital around noon, the newspaper reported on its Web site.

When contacted by The Associated Press, Godwin said he couldn't talk at that time.

They found him hospitalized? What a stroke of luck!

If he has any conscious thought, i'll bet he is pretty nervous right about now...

Yep - he's in for a pretty rude awakening

"". I tried to muster up some sympathy, but...

MSNBC reports that the Associated Press says he is dead.

Yep. Zero sympathy from me. He has sown far too much hatred to have me feel any sympathy.

I am frequently found unconscious in my office, but nobody ever takes me to the hospital. Usually I just get yelled at. :(

I laughed. :D

I won't celebrate another man's death, but I understand why so many people disliked the guy. He did spew out hate, even though I think he really didn't see it as hate. He is one of the main reasons why so many people in the country despise Christians.

My wife is a Liberty alumn, and has actually spoken to Mr. Falwell a few times, as he was omnipresent at the campus. She always says that although she thinks he said some horrible things she doesn't agree with, he was very sweet to the people at his school. A few minutes ago, I called and told her that he died and she actually got choked up. I guess actually knowing a person changes the way you view things, even if you don't agree with a person, or even respect them on some level.

Isn't judging others something that can send you to hell too? (I may be mistaken, there's so many rules in that book).

If you are referring to me, I gave up on trying to stay out of hell a long time ago.

If you are referring to him, that was my point.

Many of the vilest human beings around were very sweet to a certain segment - doesn't excuse them. Falwell was a racial segregationist, an apartheid supporter, a homophobe, and a general bastard. Your wife is way off base, IMO.

But man, could the guy barbecue!

You're way off base. I never said that my wife agreed with him. In fact, she recently (last week or so) called him a kook who was defaming Christianity in a conversation we had.

She knew him on a personal level, and was stunned that he was dead. Just because she didn't run out and have a pint in celebration of his death doesn't even remotely signify that she holds his values as her own, and I think it's shitty of you to suggest that.

I have no problem calling a spade a spade, but it seems distasteful to me to celebrate a death. Death is the end of possibility; whatever potential there was for this person to do good (or become good) has gone.

I guess what I mean is, even though I generally share your views here, to me this is still a sad occasion.

Sorry then - I misread the post. My impression from your post was that [she thought] while he did bad things, he wasn't all that bad. If that's not the case, my bad.

Well, the same crowd was cheering Saddamn's death. I'm not cheering this - I simply feel no remorse, and don't think it was a bad thing. Does that clarify it a little?

Which crowd? FOFC?

My point is simply that when somebody dies, it offers us an opportunity - what we do with that opportunity is, as always, up to each one of us.

And a large portion of evil is lifted from the universe. Where does it go? Don't know, don't particularly care so long as its not wreaking havoc in this one anymore.

Rest Jerry, with as little peace as the universe cares to allow you.