Crisis of Succession

[tealin]

So, Jerry Falwell is dead. Who will step up to replace him as the laughable yet infuriating spokesman of radical right-wing Evangelical Christianity? How will we know which children's television characters are gay? I feel so lost!

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[rblake77.livejournal.com]

Pat Robertson? Fred Phelps, perhaps?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Who's the guy with the bow tie? I remember him getting my hackles up.

[rblake77.livejournal.com]

Ugh... I can't think of that one's name, either.

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

Would the guy with the bow tie perhaps be Tucker Carlson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson#Bow_ties)? He came to talk at my campus and, while more interested in goading people into shouting matches to improve his ratings than doing anything useful, he's certainly no heir to the evangelical throne (he taped a n episode of Crossfire at my college (http://anathelen.livejournal.com/139622.html) last fall). Fred Phelps is too much of a total nutcase; most of the evengelical community, while agreeing with his complete condemnation of homosexuality, shuns him out of embaressment. He does more damage than good to the image of evangelicals.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Could be Tucker Carlson, the name sounds familiar ...

... shuns him out of embaressment. He does more damage than good to the image of evangelicals.

I can respect people with different political opinions than mine; what bothered me most about Mr Falwell was that his misrepresentation of the Christian philosophy made me embarrassed to admit my allegiance to it in mixed company. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people to continue his legacy of bigotry and hatred, and I'm sure they'll get just as much attention.

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

I currently attend a Generic Mainline Protestant Church regularly though I'm not much of a believer, and probably more educated than the average Christian since I've read a considerable number of Christian theological works besides the Bible. However, I too am reluctant to admit to people that I am a Christian because of the embarassment of all that misrepresentation, though I imagine it's easier to be a Christian on the US East Coast than the West Coast. Unfortunately, I've found a frustrating number of atheists to be as misinformed and bigoted towards Christians as many evangelicals are about Muslims. Alas, the extremes are far more exciting and controversial than the means and will doubtlessly continue to get more airtime.

I guess to many serious evangelical Christians my reluctance to own up to my religion at every opportunity is probably a serious sin. For the moment I hope that "they will know we are Christians by our love" might suffice in lieu of actively evangelizing since "Go and make disciples of all the nations" is one of my biggest philosophical problems with Christianity at the moment.

[fani.livejournal.com]

Some guy at Fox TV will probably step up:)

[(Anonymous)]

lol who are the people in your icon? C:

[fani.livejournal.com]

The Doctor and Rose

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

There's always that crazy pink-haired lady with the rediculous fake eyelashes! :D

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Amen

[smokingguncafe.livejournal.com]

Wanna bet?

He certainly had quotable slices of hate. Dead or not, what goes around comes around.

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what he said.

[smokingguncafe.livejournal.com]

Who said I was condemning him to hell? Who are you exactly to pass judgement on a total stranger over the internet? All I meant was that people will speak out against him as he has spoken out against them.

Free speech, I see, is less important than letting someone with a Cult of Personality take precedence over the thousands of people who die far worse deaths every day.

I have said nothing directly against him and you have attacked both me and my mode of thinking based on an icon I used on someone's journal. A picture. On the internet.

If this isn't the lowest form of pathetic argumentation, I don't know what is. Go start a flamewar thread on Fark if you're this hard up for a good fight.

[smokingguncafe.livejournal.com]

Oh, and your little remark about how Wodehouse ought to teach us honor and decency?

You apparently have never read Wodehouse--those books are nothing but pure farce and bad behavior. Throwing dinner rolls at the ceiling fan and knocking off policemen's helmets don't exactly constitute an excellent set of manners.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, Pol Pot never claimed to be speaking on behalf of a religion purportedly centred on love and peace. As for the rest, ditto SmokingGun ... I am not attacking him personally nor condemning him to the nethermost fires of Hades, merely mocking his preoccupation with unleashing vitriol over trivialities while, to the public eye at least, overlooking the Big Picture of what being Christian is about and giving us all a bad reputation.

And, because the coward who is inept at arguing likes to take refuge in tiny inconsequential details, he did accuse Spongebob Squarepants and his starfish friend of homosexuality as well. I don't recall if he ever mentioned Bugs Bunny's recurring transvestite seduction of Elmer Fudd, though. Seems a rather conspicuous oversight.

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Love the art, not the artist.

[thearchduchess.livejournal.com]

I'll do it.

OK...Spongebob, he's as bent as...very bent thing, Tinky Winky, obviously, uh, all the puppets on Rainbow...and Mr. Ratburn from Arthur.

So it's ok, in the light of this tragic event, we can still rail against beloved children's television and if we run out, I'm sure I can make up, I mean, expose some others.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No, not Mr Ratburn! I should have known...

Thank you, I feel so much more anchored now.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I admittedly don't know who he is. The most contact I get with evangelists is the singing people outside the Art Gallery.