Falwell that ends well

I am back. Jerry Falwell died. I am rather ambivalent about his death. He, and his brand of intolerance, over reached. He was at one time a religous conservative political force. I am not sure if his Moral Majority was really a majority or a very loud, opinionated and mobilized minority. Again, it is a red state/blue state thing and I am not comfortable with the social conservatives. They seem to be too sure of their themselves and it is all based on faith. Given the infallibility of man, and these are men (read humans), I am sure that they cannot be SURE (even if they project that) of their certainty.

That is just me. I am not looking for adherents but he did frame the issues of the day in terms of good and evil, black and white, etc. It is much the same way that George W. views the world and we can see where that got him and us.

Falwell did have a knack for saying really stupid things. He did seem to blame gays, lesbians, abortionists and others who did not "conform" to his lifestyle or purported proper, biblically speaking, way to live for the attack that was 9/11. It was an incredibly stupid and myopic thing to say. One could just as easily turn the table on him and his followers for that outcome, using his line of reasoning. Perhaps, he had it wrong and the Lord's wrath was directed at him. I do not know.

In fact, it is moot. We may never know the "Meaning of Life" as we live. All I know are these two things. One, you cannot begin to solves the mysteries of life if you cannot open your mind to all the possibilities and that may mean questioning your faith. Two, if somebody tells you how certain they are or they preach the their way as the one and only correct way, run the other way. Invariably they are full of shit and oratorical bluster (or the Inquisition's torture instruments) but they do not have all the answers. They are only men. Men who think rather highly of themselves but men, nonetheless.

On that happy note, I must depart. Ciao!